"Springing in the Chicks" 2016 April Hatch-a-Long Hosted by Mike & Sally

[Sally Sunshine]

Pile o duckies

 

[ShrekDawg]

My phone doesn't produce great pics, but I use it more often than my "good" camera. I finally took pics with my "good" camera and I couldn't get the setting to be consistently unblurry. I'll have to work on the cameras a bit, but here are a couple pics: The picture above is chicks from two different mamas. I don't remember which one hatched from which egg, but one has a Welsummer (dark brown egg) mama and one has a Crested Cream Legbar (pretty sky blue) mama. I think both have an EE/Ameraucana dad. These look like sisters, which is funny because their moms are named Anna and Elsa (I have a daughter that loves Frozen). This is a chick that hatched 4/9. Hen is BCM. Rooster is Cream Brabanter. I'm guessing it will feather out like a crested BCM. And my favorite photo of the day: My rooster is from my first hatch here. He hatched from a "pure" Wheaten Ameraucana egg (purchased from what I now know was a not-so-reputable breeder- lesson learned). I named him BB after B.B. King. He enjoyed sleeping in my hand as a chick, and I am quite attached. I still make sure he knows I'm the boss, but he knows his job is to take care of his ladies. He posed so nicely for this picture.

Even if he's not pure he is very striking ! from what I've read, yes, if temps have been slightly high. Good luck!!!! Can't wait to see pictures!

rooster looks more salmon faverolle nothing looks wheaten. He is beautiful tho....

I watched him hatch from a beautiful blue egg, but I know what you're referring to. The cream in his hackles and saddles is not standard. I have no idea what the breeder had going on. The other rooster from the hatch looks standard, and the hen that hatched with him looks like a standard Wheaten Ameraucana but lays a blue/green egg. I am not trying to deceive anyone at this point. I am aware he is considered an Easter Egger in the chicken world.

Is it possible he is a mix of both? Because at first I thought sueg's comment was a little almost mean or at least that surely you must know what he is but I just googled wheaten Ameraucana rooster and then salmon favorelle rooster and I discovered he really does look like a favorelle not just from the cream but the way the black is placed (wings, face, all over chest etc) and the saddle being brown/almost not solid color instead of red all over like with Am. But if you watched him hatch from a blue egg then obviously he is at least part Am. And I also don't know anything about either breed but that's just my guess from comparing pictures. And I also don't mean to be mean. I know it probably seems it since all you did was post a gorgeous picture of a gorgeous roo but I'm more trying to help you figure out what he could be if he is not all Am. Although I know that you did mention that you are aware he might be mixed and he was from a not so reputable breeder in the original post so I know you know and aren't deceiving anyone. It's possible his siblings either had a different mama and truly are pure or that they are mixed too and just don't show it as much. But either way, I say you got gypped imo he is a wheaten Ameraucana/Salmon Favorelle mix I guess aka EE. I assume it is too late to get your money back????? But either way he is gorgeous

 

[tao chick]

Is it possible he is a mix of both? Because at first I thought sueg's comment was a little almost mean or at least that surely you must know what he is but I just googled wheaten Ameraucana rooster and then salmon favorelle rooster and I discovered he really does look like a favorelle not just from the cream but the way the black is placed (wings, face, all over chest etc) and the saddle being brown/almost not solid color instead of red all over like with Am. But if you watched him hatch from a blue egg then obviously he is at least part Am. And I also don't know anything about either breed but that's just my guess from comparing pictures. And I also don't mean to be mean. I know it probably seems it since all you did was post a gorgeous picture of a gorgeous roo but I'm more trying to help you figure out what he could be if he is not all Am. Although I know that you did mention that you are aware he might be mixed and he was from a not so reputable breeder in the original post so I know you know and aren't deceiving anyone. It's possible his siblings either had a different mama and truly are pure or that they are mixed too and just don't show it as much. But either way, I say you got gypped imo he is a wheaten Ameraucana/Salmon Favorelle mix I guess aka EE. I assume it is too late to get your money back????? But either way he is gorgeous

Thanks. I am not easy to offend, and I completely understand the comments about this rooster. The cream gene dilutes red, so if he was mixed with something that had cream that could explain his coloring. The breeder did not have faverolles and he doesn't have even a little bit of feathering on his legs. She did have Cream Legbars, so I guess that's a possibility but to me he looks like a Cream version of a Wheaten Ameraucana. Poor breeding and culling practices can reinforce non-standard traits. She was trying to make a buck, not enhance the breed. She moved shortly after she sold the eggs and I don't actually want to try to get my money back from her. I learned my lesson.
I agree, he looks a lot like a faverolle. Maybe a Favaucana from MPC? I'm going to keep calling him a EE/Ameraucana.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

The new baby's

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Easter hatch-a-long chick pics!!!!

The first two pics are of the EE we kept from the hatch. I'm pretty sure she's a pullet and I'm head over heels for this chickie. While flighty on the ground she's calling down and when picked up she is sweet as pie and super calm. Her Daddy is our slw roo and her Mommy is one of our EE. We're not sure which one but we're trying to recreate this little chickie poo! Her hackle feathers are the same shade of blue as her back maybe a bit darker with white edges on them. Also check out those ears!





The next pic is the MPC EE cockeral that has an attitude problem. At two days he started biting at 1 week he bit held on and tried to spur us. He has done it a few times since too. I wish he wasn't like this I would love to keep him. If he calms we still may or rehome him that being said if his aggression continues he will be grown out and sent to freezer camp. We have not handled him more than a few times to move him from the incubator to the brooder and then out to a larger brooder. The aggression does usually happen when the other chicks are upset even if it's not from us, but I've never heard of a cockeral chick acting like this so soon. Also the pic isn't the best but maybe you can tell that he has hardly any feathers at all. Only about half his wings are feathered the rest of him is just down.



This chick is the one DH2B dubbed Super Chick

the first chick to hatch she(pretty sure) feathered extremely fast, twice as fast as the other chicks. Her daddy is the slw and her Mommy is an Isa Brown. She's extremely calm and easy to handle and very curious as the picture shows.

One of our three broodies and her babies.

One of our 5 speckled Sussex pullets they're really beautiful calm and easy to handle. I can't wait to see their adult feathers. We also got 5 st run white rocks, a light Brahma pullet, two brown Leghorn pullets, and two cuckoo Marans that were supposed to be sexed pullets however they gave us a cockeral at the feed store and didn't believe me when I told them as the head spot was completely different. I wish I had asked them to exchange it but oh well. We have too many cockerals again or I would be thrilled at the chance to make our own OE. We're hoping to pick up another pullet or two in May and hopefully a couple salmon faverolles pullets in May too.

Good Luck, and pretty chickies!

My Pekin eggs are fertile!!! Egg after ag has not been fertile. I even incubated a dozen or so a few months ago. Nothing. I decided to try again since it's spring. The first was a clear, and I checked one of the chicken eggs. It looked odd because I'm not used to my eggs laying down for incubation. I wanted to look at a duck egg again to see if it looked funny too. Imagine my shock to see veining!! It's a good thing I did not simply toss all three!

Congratulations!!

Pile o duckies

So sweet~

This has just been a terrible hatch. First the chick died partially hatched on Saturday, then the chick who hatched on Sunday died yesterday, then the one who hatched yesterday was found this morning after drowning in a 1/4 inch of water in the water bowl.

I don't want to tell my son so I hope there are chicks at TSC. If there is a yellow chick I'm getting it just so my son doesn't have to know that ours died. I just can't let him go to the basement before school.

Oh! That stinks!

TSC had ONE yellow chick. YAY!

The rest were little red pullets. Hoping that my son doesn't realize that the feather growth that the chick has is a bit ahead of schedule since these are last week's chicks, they are a week old. She was the smallest chick in the bin as well by just a bit so it should help with the shuck'n jive on him. The last thing my son asked before getting out of the car at school was if I'd checked on the chick this morning. I was honest. "Yep. Checked on her."

Nothing about her being dead but I did check on her. So now we have one yellow chick and five red chicks.

Good luck passing the new babies as these, how old is your son?

Good morning everyone, i just popped in to report i have a chickie hanging out in the bator

hopefully he will have buddies before to long

Come on friends!!

Three pips now lots of peeping and singing and wiggling. Two pipped at about 4-5pm yesterday.

I'm so nervous. How long should I wait after those external pips to worry that they aren't unzipping yet? It's been 15 hours!

I also have 4 with no pips, and today is the due date. Can I water candle them tonight, or wait another day? Should I check for internal pips with the flashlight if there's no activity by tomorrow?

I know, just sit only hands and wait... I can only bake so many cakes though!!!!

I like cake, and pie, and cookies, and muffins well really all food, you can send some this way!

The new baby's

Congrats CH!!

 

[generaldsherman]

Pile o duckies

Looks like my brooder, except I stuck the extra cockerels from last weekend's hatch in with the ducks so I could keep track of who I was keeping. Yesterday after their bath, I had a pile of ducklings snoozing and one CCL cockerel perched directly on top of the pile of ducks (nice bed-warm and soft

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TSC had ONE yellow chick. YAY!

The rest were little red pullets. Hoping that my son doesn't realize that the feather growth that the chick has is a bit ahead of schedule since these are last week's chicks, they are a week old. She was the smallest chick in the bin as well by just a bit so it should help with the shuck'n jive on him. The last thing my son asked before getting out of the car at school was if I'd checked on the chick this morning. I was honest. "Yep. Checked on her."

Nothing about her being dead but I did check on her. So now we have one yellow chick and five red chicks.

So glad TSC had a yellow chick for you. Sorry you lost yours, but glad you were able to find one so your kid wasn't crushed.

 

[Scovy Momma]

Tried to get the trio in a group pic...they weren't very cooperative until they got tired.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Thanks. I am not easy to offend, and I completely understand the comments about this rooster. The cream gene dilutes red, so if he was mixed with something that had cream that could explain his coloring. The breeder did not have faverolles and he doesn't have even a little bit of feathering on his legs. She did have Cream Legbars, so I guess that's a possibility but to me he looks like a Cream version of a Wheaten Ameraucana. Poor breeding and culling practices can reinforce non-standard traits. She was trying to make a buck, not enhance the breed. She moved shortly after she sold the eggs and I don't actually want to try to get my money back from her. I learned my lesson.
I agree, he looks a lot like a faverolle. Maybe a Favaucana from MPC? I'm going to keep calling him a EE/Ameraucana.

I'm glad you knew what I meant

If she didn't have favorelles then I guess that's kind of impossible lol could be any of the other things you said though. I am kind of oblivious to chicken genetics and did not even realize that cream diluted red so that would definitely explain his coloring. Perhaps he is just a cream version of a wheaten am after all? Or he could be mixed with one of those other things, I guess you will never know for sure. He is gorgeous though. And she definitely sounds like a terrible breeder though you're right, not worth it at this point

 

[GitaBooks]

Some pictures of my marans hatch from last week- 6 Marans. Also hatched 2 isabelle leghorns and saved an isabelle leghorn and a chick that looks Silverudd Blue X blue copper marans from a broody who abandoned them.

They are so adorable! I love the coloration!

duckies first bath

Awesome pic! I love little ducklings getting to swim.

My phone doesn't produce great pics, but I use it more often than my "good" camera. I finally took pics with my "good" camera and I couldn't get the setting to be consistently unblurry. I'll have to work on the cameras a bit, but here are a couple pics:

The picture above is chicks from two different mamas. I don't remember which one hatched from which egg, but one has a Welsummer (dark brown egg) mama and one has a Crested Cream Legbar (pretty sky blue) mama. I think both have an EE/Ameraucana dad. These look like sisters, which is funny because their moms are named Anna and Elsa (I have a daughter that loves Frozen).


This is a chick that hatched 4/9. Hen is BCM. Rooster is Cream Brabanter. I'm guessing it will feather out like a crested BCM.

And my favorite photo of the day:
My rooster is from my first hatch here. He hatched from a "pure" Wheaten Ameraucana egg (purchased from what I now know was a not-so-reputable breeder- lesson learned). I named him BB after B.B. King. He enjoyed sleeping in my hand as a chick, and I am quite attached. I still make sure he knows I'm the boss, but he knows his job is to take care of his ladies. He posed so nicely for this picture.

That is one awesomely handsome rooster there. And your chicks are adorable.

What kind of barnyard mix.

Handsome dude!
Looks like some Golden Laced Wyandotte in there. The coloring is awesome now but will likely change as it finishes maturing. Most of my chickens change colors between teen-hood and adult-hood.

 

[CherriesBrood]

Hey everyone! Just popping in, I have a quick question. What's the earliest that you have had or heard that an egg hatched? Thanks in advance.