Set eggs February 12th! Hatch a long with me!

[NYRIR]

A cage set up inside the coop that the chicks can't get out of would work. I will never again take chicks away from a broody after an experience I had. She pined for them for literally months, looking for them in the broody pen, where I had removed them and sold them when they were a week old. Folks said she'd forget in a day. She didn't. It broke my heart. I let her raise the next batch as long as she wanted the next time she went broody.

I have two D'Anver x Lav Cochin chicks hatched, one BR x EE and one pure D'Anver pipped.

I was wondering why you were doing these particular crosses? Do you have some kind of project going? Anyway, they are adorable

 

[NYRIR]

I don't think it really matters much. I put mine in lockdown today at about 11:00 or so, and I set my eggs on the 12th at about 1:35. Happy Hatching!

Yay....pics when they hatch for us who are still waiting!!

 

[speckledhen]

A second D'Anver egg just pipped. My power is flickering, dang it. Babies in a brooder are easier to keep warm than eggs in a bator.


I'm not doing the crosses for any particular reason other than I've had my Shadow for almost 4 years and till last year, she was my only bantam in a flock full of standard breeds. She now has some pint sized hubbies and her eggs are fertile for the first time ever so I'm hatching some of her chicks for myself as well as a friend who thinks she's one of the cutest things in feathered bedroom slippers.

 

[NYRIR]

A second D'Anver egg just pipped. My power is flickering, dang it. Babies in a brooder are easier to keep warm than eggs in a bator.


I'm not doing the crosses for any particular reason other than I've had my Shadow for almost 4 years and till last year, she was my only bantam in a flock full of standard breeds. She now has some pint sized hubbies and her eggs are fertile for the first time ever so I'm hatching some of her chicks for myself as well as a friend who thinks she's one of the cutest things in feathered bedroom slippers.

That's the BEST reason

Those guys are cute! I LOVE the colors... I am also trying my hand right now at hatching some crosses of bantams...lots of variety...should be cute!

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

I am still waiting.

Day 19 today. This wait is crazy! No pips, no peeps, no movement. How do you guys contain yourselves?

 

[NYRIR]

I am still waiting.

Day 19 today. This wait is crazy! No pips, no peeps, no movement. How do you guys contain yourselves?

We don't....we obsessively post about how bad waiting is....lol....

 

[speckledhen]

While you're obsessively checking your bators, thought you'd like to see a picture of the mama and dad of the chicks above. Here is Shadow and the two porcelain D'Anver males, either of which could have sired the babies. If the Mille Fleur male on the right had sired them, they would have been black, but carried the lavender gene as well as a mottling gene.

 

[naturespace]

beautiful color on those guys!

Hey! I told my DH no more hatches this year. Now you make me want to do another.


4 pips and counting. (day 20) peeping too.

Sunny, it's a long waiting game. maybe go see a movie...

hahaha.

 

[NYRIR]

While you're obsessively checking your bators, thought you'd like to see a picture of the mama and dad of the chicks above. Here is Shadow and the two porcelain D'Anver males, either of which could have sired the babies. If the Mille Fleur male on the right had sired them, they would have been black, but carried the lavender gene as well as a mottling gene.



Those Porcelains are gorgeous...very well kept looking...gorgeous colors....

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you! My main interest was the porcelain color. I have three Mille Fleur pullets, two of whom are currently broody, one Mille Fleur male and the two porcelains. Porcelain is just Mille Fleur with the addition of the lavender gene, for those who don't know, so they are compatible as breeders. And my lavender Cochin is a compatible color as well, though of course, a different type.

ETA: The first of the D'Anvers has popped its top; it was one that I had in storage for 13 days before setting.