Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[featherfriendlyinIowa52]

I know this thread can help me. I bought some Delaware eggs on ebay. Only one hatched and is now about 8 weeks old. The chick is brown with a bitof mottled straw-colored feathers and some black tips. I've tried to find a pick of an 8-week old Delaware but have had no luck. I only see brand new chicks or pretty much full grown chickens. I questioned the breeder and he said the coloring I described is correct for an 8-week old Delaware. He offered to send me more eggs for the price of shipping. Could someone confirm for me that the chick I described is in fact how a Delaware chick should look?

 

[desertmarcy]

I know this thread can help me. I bought some Delaware eggs on ebay. Only one hatched and is now about 8 weeks old. The chick is brown with a bitof mottled straw-colored feathers and some black tips. I've tried to find a pick of an 8-week old Delaware but have had no luck. I only see brand new chicks or pretty much full grown chickens. I questioned the breeder and he said the coloring I described is correct for an 8-week old Delaware. He offered to send me more eggs for the price of shipping. Could someone confirm for me that the chick I described is in fact how a Delaware chick should look?

Can you take a pic and post it? That will help us. Here is a pic of some Delaware chicks I had when they were 2-3 weeks old. They still have their yellow down. As they get older, they lose that and turn white with the black markings. I don't remember them ever looking like what I'd describe as brown.

Here they are at 5 and 6 weeks of age:

I hope these pics help.

 

[PatS]

Mine are five weeks old and a little smaller, but the exact same coloration, as the second picture above. It took a couple of weeks for the darker areas to show but they've gone from yellow to more of a white with little dark spots.

 

[speckledhen]

I know this thread can help me. I bought some Delaware eggs on ebay. Only one hatched and is now about 8 weeks old. The chick is brown with a bitof mottled straw-colored feathers and some black tips. I've tried to find a pick of an 8-week old Delaware but have had no luck. I only see brand new chicks or pretty much full grown chickens. I questioned the breeder and he said the coloring I described is correct for an 8-week old Delaware. He offered to send me more eggs for the price of shipping. Could someone confirm for me that the chick I described is in fact how a Delaware chick should look?

I answered you on the thread you started in Breeds. You may want to check the replies to your thread.

Crossposting is against BYC rules.

 

[featherfriendlyinIowa52]

Thank you all. I knew something was not quite right with what the seller told me as I couldn't believe a brown 8-week old chick would somehow miraculously turn white with black on the neck & tail. And again, I apologize for cross-posting...I must have bounced over that rule when I read them.

 

[speckledhen]

Apology accepted. Check out your thread, though--I posted plenty of good pics for you.

 

[harleyjo]

I am having so much trouble getting pullets from my Delawares. I have hatched 3 times this spring and they have mostly been roosters. I would love to figure out how to change this to more pullets than roosters.

 

[crazyhen]

When you figure that out let me know. I had 7 german NH 5 were boys, Three Dels, 2 are boys etc. I seem to be a roo magnet this year.

Gloria Jean

 

[JohnnyxRex]

I am having so much trouble getting pullets from my Delawares. I have hatched 3 times this spring and they have mostly been roosters. I would love to figure out how to change this to more pullets than roosters.

When you figure that out let me know. I had 7 german NH 5 were boys, Three Dels, 2 are boys etc. I seem to be a roo magnet this year.

Gloria Jean

I am definitely not an expert on this, but I heard that incubating a few degrees lower (like 1 or 2) than normal produces more females. And several people claim this is true. You might want to do some research on it. Hope this helps.

 

[catdaddyfro]

I am definitely not an expert on this, but I heard that incubating a few degrees lower (like 1 or 2) than normal produces more females. And several people claim this is true. You might want to do some research on it. Hope this helps.

I've heard that too and a whole bunch more, but the scientific fact is the sex is decided by the hen way before the egg is ever laid. In the avaian world the female put the sex in the DNA mix where as human or mammal world the male is the sex decider LOL

Now with the scientific part out of the way It is said that the hen decides this male to female ratio by environment, the male to female ratio in the group so on,IDK but too a hen will generally lay either predominantly male eggs or more female eggs as a general rule.

I too must have a bunch of ol' hags that love little boys too cause I always have an over abundance of them almost every hatch LOL

Jeff

I wanted to say this also too that incubating 1or 2 degrees too low is just gonna delay the hatch one or two days longer than normal if your lucky, it could cause so serious defects to as in crooked toes and a lot of different things but I'll save all this for another day, another section on here.