Shipped: 15 Barbu D'anvers, 5 possible flavors

[yakitori]

I had to rethink the eggs that didn't start. I don't know if that's a fertility thing or that the eggs were just that badly scrambled by postal service that they were unable to start. I think there's no way of knowing, but the evidence is in the air cells, for sure. I had some cells that were just a mess.

To my surprise, however, despite incubating my eggs on their sides, some of those more misshapen air cells corrected significantly by lockdown, and very surprising is that the small-end-of-egg-cell hatched a healthy little baby. That said, the smallest egg is one of the early deaths, and the worst saddled air cell was also an early death. My late term babies both had acceptable cell shape and position and still ended up dying for some reason.

What are you hatching? How many eggs? What day are they on? Are they shipped, too?

It’s good youot some beautiful babies. Most look to be the same coloration? I wonder if those were just healthier more robust genes.

I’m hatching some mixed bantams from a local backyard chicken keeper, so aircells were thankfully not an issue.

There was a heat wave on the days the eggs were collected, and I should have asked for eggs that were laid after the heat wave was over. But I was anxious to get underway with the incubation and wanted to trust the seller to know what she was doing.

Lesson learned I guess

4 were definitely unfertilized as I opened them on day 7. None of them showed a hint of development and there were no bullseyes. I couldn’t bring myself to open the early death embryo...

I just hope I don’t end up with just one chick. I really don’t want to go out and buy 6 chicks (state minimum) to keep one company

 

[SarahLadd]

It’s good youot some beautiful babies. Most look to be the same coloration? I wonder if those were just healthier more robust genes.

I’m hatching some mixed bantams from a local backyard chicken keeper, so aircells were thankfully not an issue.

There was a heat wave on the days the eggs were collected, and I should have asked for eggs that were laid after the heat wave was over. But I was anxious to get underway with the incubation and wanted to trust the seller to know what she was doing.

Lesson learned I guess

4 were definitely unfertilized as I opened them on day 7. None of them showed a hint of development and there were no bullseyes. I couldn’t bring myself to open the early death embryo...

I just hope I don’t end up with just one chick. I really don’t want to go out and buy 6 chicks (state minimum) to keep one company

Ah well good luck!!

 

[Tonyroo]

Ah well good luck!!

Sarah, can I ask were you bought your d'anver eggs?

I'm looking for a breeder that has a variety of color and pattern.

I'm also looking for barbu de watermael eggs.

 

[SarahLadd]

Sarah, can I ask were you bought your d'anver eggs?

I'm looking for a breeder that has a variety of color and pattern.

I'm also looking for barbu de watermael eggs.

Ebay, blue barn poultry and pumpkins.

 

[Texasclucker]

Not sure if you are familiar with the colors but if not hope I help you the two colors I seen that you posted of your live babies are blue quail and regular quail also your babies are adorable!

 

[SarahLadd]

I'm not super certain on any of the colors besides the 3 that are very obviously porcelains. One of them, the dark one, looks like pictures of mille fleur d'uccle chicks that I've found with Google image search. The other two I'm not super sure. Some pictures labeled as blue quail show birds with gray shanks, and every one of my little dudes have white shanks. I think it's going to be really interesting seeing what they look like when their bigger feathers begin coming in. I do have another thread I started for attempts at color ID, with many many more photos.

I'm going to come back in a couple months with updated pictures when they have more adult plumage!

 

[Texasclucker]

I'm not super certain on any of the colors besides the 3 that are very obviously porcelains. One of them, the dark one, looks like pictures of mille fleur d'uccle chicks that I've found with Google image search. The other two I'm not super sure. Some pictures labeled as blue quail show birds with gray shanks, and every one of my little dudes have white shanks. I think it's going to be really interesting seeing what they look like when their bigger feathers begin coming in. I do have another thread I started for attempts at color ID, with many many more photos.

I'm going to come back in a couple months with updated pictures when they have more adult plumage!

If you wouldn’t mind posting the pictures here I would be most happy to help

 

[SarahLadd]

If you wouldn’t mind posting the pictures here I would be most happy to help

Thread 'What colors are my D'anvers chicks?' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-colors-are-my-danvers-chicks.1482500/

 

[SarahLadd]

One chick is making 95% of the noise. It is VERY loud. I am pretty sure it was the first one to hatch. I put black sharpie rings around the porcelain's legs to pick them out. It is one of the porcelains that is screaming all the time. It stops screaming when I pick it up and then it just goes to sleep. It's screaming so much. What should I do? Is this just a talkative bird? It sounds so unhappy.

 

[Tonyroo]

Is your brooder temperature at 99 to 95 degrees?