Silence Is Not Golden Here

[Zinjifrah]

Ouch. I'd be awfully disappointed with those numbers.
Here's hoping for a higher hatch rate and more ladies!

Honestly, I was a bit surprised that anything hatched, since I'd never tried to hatch any eggs before - I had eggs before I had chickens. It wasn't until after I had the eggs in the incubator that I picked up some chicks from the local feed store. I have marvelous luck with boys; Out of the seven chicks that I got, two died the day after I got them - NO experience keeping chicks - one had scissor beak so bad I finally culled him, when it started interfering with his ability to breathe, and of the remaining four, two were cockerels. Oh, the one that got culled was a cockerel, as well.

Those two cockerels - Silver Sebright and black Silkie - have gone to a bachelor-pad pet home with what I suspect is an OEGB cockerel. The people who took them sent me photos today, and are delighted with them.

Two Serama cockerels have found a new home... I'm keeping one of the boys from the first batch of eggs, and one of the boys from the second batch of eggs. I just need to wait a little longer for the trio from the second batch to mature a little, so I can see what they look like, but I already suspect I'll be keeping the little black one - it hatched from an egg half the size of the rest, and needed some extra help to be walking in the first few days. It's already shaping up very nicely, short back and the first to pop his tail up.

 

[Zinjifrah]

Should mention... the eggs I'm cooking now are shipped, the longest distance yet - all the way from right on the East Coast - and I only ordered 12. The breeder threw in all the eggs she had sitting around, which ended up making 30. Some of them were up to a couple weeks old, but she and I both figured it wouldn't do any harm to see if they'd fire up. Some of them have.

 

[BlackHackle]

What's up with your pullet?

She won't eat anything, has a permanently watery eye, and holds her wings at a slight angle downwards. She walks and drinks, but slowly... I just can't afford to loose her cause she is a very pricey out of continent import

 

[jwyles]

I'm still a bit frustrated over my first two batches of shipped eggs. Only seven Seramas hatched... and six of them cockerels. I just hope my ratio is a bit better with the mutt chicks - I have two of them pegged as probable boys currently, but it's too early for me to really be sure. And I'd really, really like to get a decent number of pullets out of the LaAmBa eggs!

I would be crushed! 6 of the 7 boys! I hope you share you mutt chicken pics btw. I love seeing the unique ways the barnyard mixes and crosses turn out.

 

[Conan]

She won't eat anything, has a permanently watery eye, and holds her wings at a slight angle downwards. She walks and drinks, but slowly... I just can't afford to loose her cause she is a very pricey out of continent import

Have you started a thread?

Edited to ask: How long has she been like this? How old is she? Any pics?

 

[Zinjifrah]

I would be crushed! 6 of the 7 boys! I hope you share you mutt chicken pics btw. I love seeing the unique ways the barnyard mixes and crosses turn out.

I'm horrible at bothering to take photos. They're two weeks old now - I've got a thread going about one of them, who has a 'tag' on its jaw, I'm guessing a patch of random beak cells growing in the wrong place. Other than that, I've been horrid at bothering to take photos. Today they were getting some main run time, and loving it - I created monsters. Now every time I go outside, I've got eight little tyrants screaming at me to let them out of the integration pen into the main run.

 

[Zinjifrah]

She won't eat anything, has a permanently watery eye, and holds her wings at a slight angle downwards. She walks and drinks, but slowly... I just can't afford to loose her cause she is a very pricey out of continent import

Condolences on your loss and the sickly one. I hope she recovers soon.

 

[jwyles]

Yes, condolences from me too @BlackHackle ! I know it must be so disappointing to lose one of those you were so lucky to have gotten your hands on in the first place! Do you have any idea of what took him or was is similar symptoms as your pullet that currently ill?

 

[jwyles]

I'm horrible at bothering to take photos. They're two weeks old now - I've got a thread going about one of them, who has a 'tag' on its jaw, I'm guessing a patch of random beak cells growing in the wrong place. Other than that, I've been horrid at bothering to take photos. Today they were getting some main run time, and loving it - I created monsters. Now every time I go outside, I've got eight little tyrants screaming at me to let them out of the integration pen into the main run.

I'll look for thread. That definitely peaks my curiosity. What's it called? And yeah I'm not one to take tons of pics of my chickens either. Too frustrating. And I know I'd never keep up with a long term thread for anything.My eggs on the other hand I love taking pics of them after I gather. Do you have any idea what in your mutt chicks' lineage (s) or are they just from generations upon generations of barnyard mixes?

 

[Zinjifrah]

I'll look for thread. That definitely peaks my curiosity. What's it called? And yeah I'm not one to take tons of pics of my chickens either. Too frustrating. And I know I'd never keep up with a long term thread for anything.My eggs on the other hand I love taking pics of them after I gather. Do you have any idea what in your mutt chicks' lineage (s) or are they just from generations upon generations of barnyard mixes?

I think this link should work...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/not-an-injury-tag-on-chicks-jaw.1255863/

I got the eggs from a local woman who sells eggs for eating - but she also has a rooster, so they're fertile. The rooster is Cochin, the hens Cochin, EE, RIR, 'unknown black' and 'unknown buff'. The only one I'm sure of the parentage on is the chick that came from the only blue egg - obviously EE/Cochin mix. Muffs and fluffy legs.