The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ShelbyCoral]

Okay I have this pullet... We think its a cornish. but it looks nothing like out cornish hens! Its got skinny legs and is white. We named her lemon because she was yellow as a chick.
thats her, the big one. Also I dont know what the one with the comb is! Its a bantam but very sweet! And the one next to him. he has fluffy feet, and she doesnt. They have buff in them.
All TSC chicks.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

She has like really yellow feet to!

 

[Noncentzter]

Of the 13 I hatched, I had to put down two of them and of those leftover too many of them have pink combs developing!!!!

 

[ronott1]

Okay I have this pullet... We think its a cornish. but it looks nothing like out cornish hens! Its got skinny legs and is white. We named her lemon because she was yellow as a chick.
thats her, the big one. Also I dont know what the one with the comb is! Its a bantam but very sweet! And the one next to him. he has fluffy feet, and she doesnt. They have buff in them.
All TSC chicks.

She looks like a white rock.

 

[SilkieSensation]

So glad you got something good after all of your losses. So sorry about your cat. Are you sure its a fox? Foxes usually take their prey with them.

Yes me too. We plan to trap the fox and also stand guard every night. I will protect whats left of my fox! I infested in a few new guns and shoes for running! xD We put posts in the ground yesterday and are getting fencing sometime this week. Using telephone polls for the posts. Ill post what it will look like. NOTHING PRETTY but if theyre safe im happy.

I had to cover one run due to hawks attacking my juveniles. I always have babies in this coop, so I needed to do something.

Okie

Adorable!

[CONTENTEMBED=/t/857062/the-5th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/13830#post_13511331 layout=inline] [/CONTENTEMBED] I know I sure don't count either.... my chicken math sure got to my dh! He talked me into getting 20 hens march last year. Then he built this grand coop for them.... so much empty space! then one of our pullets turned out to be a roo! We decided to keep him, for now, and see.... he was fine, so we kept him. Then we decided that we'd get a few more this year.... but no one was selling yet... so I just ever so casually suggested that instead of buying 20 clicks at $3+ a piece we could spend $80 and get an incubator and turner and hatch them ourselves... for free.... so we did. And then did it again when someone wanted to buy ours.... then my sons kindergarten class hatched Cornish cross so we took those.... so... if my math is right... . ... then I have 49 in the coop, 7 four week olds, 5 one week olds, 30 hatching as we speak "type" and 8 more trying to hatch. Although those 38 are sold. . Gotta love chicken math!

When you quit counting your chicks and meaties, then you have aced chicken math. Now I have broodies doing the hatching for me. First one hatches her eggs on Wed.

When you quit counting your chicks and meaties, then you have aced chicken math.

I think I have this down, always had a knack for math I guess! I hedge around saying an exact number, then I end up confessing to my main flock and a "oh, and then the babies". No one needs to know there are currently more babies than adults. And those extra roosters don't count because I'm going to cull them very soon. And the spare breeding roosters don't count because they are spares, that's like saying your car has 5 tires when you have a spare on the back, right? And bantams only count as half a chicken, right? ...You should have seen the look I got the last time I confessed to how many eggs I had in incubators. I didn't even tell her how many were under the broodies...those don't count either, right? Chicken Math would have been my favorite subject in school

Not counting the close to 100 I parted with over the weekend at the swap meet....hmmmm...lemme see: 6 ancona ducks 9 call ducks 5 heritage turkeys 30+/- in the layer pen 1 broody sitting on 24 chicks & 3 poults in the garage 2 pilgrim goslings (a pair picked up at the swap) 2 Half grown poults about 30 coturnix quail A brooder I haven't bothered to count with about 30 chicks in it 4 incubators stuffed full... I started the year with: 2 geese 21 chickens 6 turkeys 13 ducks 5 chicks in the brooder Ummm...chicken math???

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

I think I have this down, always had a knack for math I guess!

I hedge around saying an exact number, then I end up confessing to my main flock and a "oh, and then the babies". No one needs to know there are currently more babies than adults. And those extra roosters don't count because I'm going to cull them very soon. And the spare breeding roosters don't count because they are spares, that's like saying your car has 5 tires when you have a spare on the back, right?

And bantams only count as half a chicken, right?

...You should have seen the look I got the last time I confessed to how many eggs I had in incubators. I didn't even tell her how many were under the broodies...those don't count either, right?

Chicken Math would have been my favorite subject in school

Eggs in incubators or under broodies are NEVER part of the count! All of my life, I've been told not to count my chickens before they hatch - it can't be both ways!

Bantams don't count because...well, they're ornaments and not really chickens... anything I weigh in ounces is NOT a chicken, IMHO.
DH keeps complaining about #'s... says we're back over 150 chickens, but hasn't stepped into the hen house in months, so how could he know?

Right now, they're leaving faster than they're hatching, so I'm just waiting it out...

 

[ShelbyCoral]

Not counting the close to 100 I parted with over the weekend at the swap meet....hmmmm...lemme see:
6 ancona ducks
9 call ducks
5 heritage turkeys
30+/- in the layer pen
1 broody sitting on 24 chicks & 3 poults in the garage
2 pilgrim goslings (a pair picked up at the swap)
2 Half grown poults
about 30 coturnix quail
A brooder I haven't bothered to count with about 30 chicks in it
4 incubators stuffed full...
I started the year with:
2 geese
21 chickens
6 turkeys
13 ducks
5 chicks in the brooder

Ummm...chicken math???

Aha! That fencing looks like mine almost! Nope it looks just like ours!!!! hawks are not a problem for us. Unless we have bantams out, but never had a bantam taken. Its always been my pullets.
Your chicken math is awesome!

 

[ShelbyCoral]

She looks like a white rock.

That looks about right! Just looked up what a white rock looks like. She looks just like them!

 

[troyer]

wow that coloring is striking they are going to be some pretty birds when they get older. But i don't know what could have caused the striping on them by gentics some of the chicks should have been the color of one parent or the other or a mix of both colors\patterens not two new colors very werid are you sure these two are the one's that did the dance?

Yes, I am completely sure of it. There were no options he was the only rooster in the pens with her and I am very certain that she hatched only the eggs she laid. I'm not surprised that the chicks are black and blue, I'm just surprised that they have the mixed coloring.

 

[Penny Hen]

Yes, I am completely sure of it. There were no options he was the only rooster in the pens with her and I am very certain that she hatched only the eggs she laid. I'm not surprised that the chicks are black and blue, I'm just surprised that they have the mixed coloring.

I hope you will post more pics when they molt out of their juvenile feathers. If they remain that striking and unusual then I think you may want to see if you can continue and get that to breed true.