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

[DwayneNLiz]

from this morning

 

[DwayneNLiz]

and now

 

[Blooie]

I'm glad you got the ones you did too bad the legbar isn't a pullet the girls would love to see colored eggs I bet. Idk if you have EE I forget. Do you plan to keep him?
I didn't know you have white sport legbars. I would love to expand and get more legbars she's just so sweet! And I love the autosexing and egg color. I'd also love(my dream) to find some really bright blue layers too!

We have several Easter Eggers, and now an Olive Egger. So the kids are old hands at lots of different shades of blue eggs!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-easter-eggers-of-oleo-acres

We do plan to keep Sweet Pea, unless we have behavior issues with him - or any other chicken out there, for that matter. Our little Kendra has been in her wheelchair since she was 9 months old, (she's 4 now) and her older sister Katie (our very best chicken sitter) is mildly autistic. I won't have any chicken out there - hen or roo - that I can't trust 100%. So as long as he behaves himself and tends to his roo-dy duties, he can enjoy a long life. I really was hoping for more Cream Legbars, but it doesn't look like it will happen. We picked up 2 Easter Eggers, 3 White Orpingtons, and 2 Bantams for Katie, because it looks like the Bantam eggs in the incubator now are clear.

 

[Cynthia12]

I just candled my shipped Welsh Harlequin duck eggs (day 8)- 6/6 are fertile, with no separated air cells!!!

These are so pretty. Had to hatch some just because one year.

 

[Cynthia12]

I've felt so bad for those of you who have experienced losses during and right after incubation. Now that I've been through it, under the worst circumstances (shipping prompt but delivery very delayed, 2 new incubators, and being new to this) I have a lot more understanding of how much goes into each batch of eggs that are set.

@Chaos18 I forgot to add that I also have 11 eggs in the incubator, set on Friday the 8th, due to hatch on Friday the 29th. I have 3 Australorps, 1 Naked Neck, 3 Bantams, 1 Easter Egger, 1 Nankin, 1 Silkie, and 1 Leghorn.

You have a Nankin in? Do you have Nankins??

 

[Blooie]

You have a Nankin in? Do you have Nankins??

I'll have one if it hatches, Cynthia!

 

[CherriesBrood]

Ok.... I kinda need your guys help. I candled all eggs again and all look normal except for one of my EE's. It's darker and its veins has spread out much more than all the other eggs, but... I kind of think I saw two embryos! I saw two black dots on seperate sides that were both swimming, I don't know it could be my imagination, but it looked like their could be twins. I candeled all eggs before they went into incubator and none of them had double yolks, so what I'm thinking is it has two fertilization spots??? I have heard of this before but isn't that really rare? Has anyone ever dealt with this situation before? Any advice/help?

 

[BantyChooks]

 You have a Nankin in?  Do you have Nankins?? 

A what??

 

[Honora]

Here is a pic of three of the lavender Orpington chicks.

I want a lavender orp pullet so bad. I tried for them on this hatch & with my first hatch last fall but all cockerels both times. Grrrr!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I want a lavender orp pullet so bad.  I tried for them on this hatch & with my first hatch last fall but all cockerels both times. Grrrr!

I can't tell if the two I bought are orpingtons or marans