Welcome to the Easter Hatch Along!Im in!!
Welcome to the Easter Hatch Along!
Yeah!!!
Yes!!!
Awesome Easter H-A-L here we come!!!
It just wouldn't be a proper Easter without a HAL. I'm in. Now I have an excuse to buy more hatching eggs
Sorry that the pictures are not very good. It is quite cloudy here today and he wouldn't sit stillso most of the pictures were blurry. That is not color breakthrough in his hackles, it is feather shafts shedding.
Here he is next to his girl
Nice! If you are starting out with at least one with a black mouth, you are doing good. It will take a lot of breeding and a lot of judicious culling to make a good breeding flock. Most of mine still have pink/gray and gray/black mouths. My first cock had a very mulberry comb, but he produced some nice chicks and I am continuing to improve as I keep breeding. I started with 2 trios - 1 was the mulberry-combed cock from GFF over ECF hens, and the other trio was all GFF and produced the woolly chicks.
Ahh.... NO!One of those signs is for me!
Yeah!!!Yes!!!Awesome Easter H-A-L here we come!!!
So this is my brooder setup now. Firstly, its outside in my unheated greenhouse, so I am very concerned about the water freezing. I'm hoping that the heat plates and chicks are going to keep at least some of the water unfrozen.
My other concern is whether the chicks will be able to drink from the waterer at all. There's not a lot of space between the top of its lip, and the bottom of the plates lip. Anyone with experience here that can offer me some suggestions?
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