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[cluck-cluck]

Well I lost another ROck Island egg. Pretty sure , I left it in just in case but im positive its dead.Down to seven

Here is little egg #15

That's a cool video, so active! Sorry one of your eggs quit

Alrighty. I thought you all would be interested in getting an update on my Whole Foods chicks. They've grown quite a bit!


Godzilla: Is growing more like a meat bird. He's very heavy, and is excessively slow to feather. Very obviously a roo from his comb.


Unnamed: Our second obvious roo. He has remained all white


Unnamed: Has a lot of comb growth, but no color in it so far. She/he has actually developed a little patch of dark feathers on the back.


Dotty: Alll dotted up, and pretty obviously female so far (yay!) Cute as a button.

I dunno, they don't quite look like my leghorns when they were chicks, gotta pull up a picture here....


boy with girl in background... mine seemed to have longer beaks, but then again, maybe not or maybe an individual difference?? Otherwise, they do kind of look like leghorns??

I'm giggling at the "stamp her feet" part of the greeting by crouching.". That's called "the squat" and many hens will stamp like that. The squat means she considers you her rooster. She's submitting to you.

I still think it's adorable when any of my hens squat for me. I have roosters, so it's not as often as it used to be. They're too busy squatting for the boys!

Yah, and the little hussy is laying fertile eggs! And to top it all off, the only boys in the coop with her are 14 weeks old! Cradle robber! Tisk tisk!

 

[cochins1088]

Alrighty. I thought you all would be interested in getting an update on my Whole Foods chicks. They've grown quite a bit!


Godzilla: Is growing more like a meat bird. He's very heavy, and is excessively slow to feather. Very obviously a roo from his comb.


Unnamed: Our second obvious roo. He has remained all white


Unnamed: Has a lot of comb growth, but no color in it so far. She/he has actually developed a little patch of dark feathers on the back.


Dotty: Alll dotted up, and pretty obviously female so far (yay!) Cute as a button.

I'll have to take some pictures of mine. They are both feathering competely white and are the fastest growing chicks I have ever seen. Of course, I'm comparing them to the cochins that I raise and I know cochins are slow growers. The blue spots on my one chick's back slowly faded away as white feathers filled in. I was hoping he/she would have a couple of unique feathers like yours does, but ohh well I will love them the same.

 

[kcaywood]

Update: Eleven of my Rock Island eggs are doing fine! Due to hatch on 2/3 or so. Eleven out of a dozen is by far the best fertility rate I've seen, even with unshipped eggs! Way more than I expected. I can't imagine that all eleven will hatch, though. I'll update again next week.

 

[gabrielle1976]

One rock island egg has a big pip nothing from the rest yet. Today at 8 am ish was day 21

 

[Pele]

Any updates on the hatches? I'm eager to see how they're going!

 

[tazcat70]

Not good on my end. I have 1 chick growing out of 8 dozen.

 

[gabrielle1976]

So I have 3 rock island store eggs from the 7 that made it to lock down. I cleaned out the bator of shells and such added more water and am letting it sit for a bit today is day 23 for them I think.

They look like this pretty much. Yellow with a tiny smidge of dark on them.

 

[Pele]

So I have 3 rock island store eggs from the 7 that made it to lock down. I cleaned out the bator of shells and such added more water and am letting it sit for a bit today is day 23 for them I think.

They look like this pretty much. Yellow with a tiny smidge of dark on them.

Yup yup, that's exactly how my babies looked! And they REALLY spaced out their hatching too. I had one hatch on day 20, and one hatch on day 22. You just might get more!

 

[hokankai]

I'm going to be incubating some fertile store eggs in my next batch and am wondering how many I should get? What's the average you usually get out of a dozen eggs? Also, if they aren't developing can you scramble them and feed them to the chickens? LOL

 

[gabrielle1976]

I set a dozen, most seem to start but five died between days 5 and 14 or so and of the 7 i put in lockdown 3 hatched.