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Oh my goodness, they are adorable
I can't wait now!
A bit of sad news - we lost another egg. It was crushed - think it was the setup and how Miss Juno had to step over the roost to get to her eggs. We removed the roost and she moved her seven remaining eggs into the back corner of her coop. She was very unhappy - as was my son (who had to open the egg - the super scientist). There was a chick growing
Anyway - I have high hopes for the remaining seven eggs, here's hoping they will be as adorable as your chicks!
awwww
here's hoping ! the rest are coming REALLY SOON, and since you haven't had the unattended-eggs problem that Dana got blindsided with, the rest may all make it
I suspect that the hatchery originally selected the foundation stock they use, for as many live chicks as possible from their eggs; which means we get pretty good hatches from the eggs we get from the chicks they send that survive ... assuming good incubator management or good broodies !
yeah, Dana too got one crushed egg and one possibly-stepped-on baby chick ... I guess this is what we have to expect from the situations ...
looking forward to seeing what comes from the eggs you selected ... looks like Dana is getting both gold duckwings and silver duckwings, we'll see .... and it's looking like my roo is passing along Columbian and silver and possibly blue genes, not Dominant White (we'd have yellow chicks if he had DW)
my rusty-mahogany-red chipmunk chick grew up to be a mahogany-gold pullet; my goldy-brown chipmunk chicks turned into gold duckwings, and my mink-brown chick turned into that fancydancy roo ... none of mine looked particularly blue or gray ... so this is fun, to see what's happening
Huh. Well I'm interested to see what the silver and gray turn out like. I'm getting just a little too fond of the silvery chick in particular. Don't have anything like that in my flock yet...
Oh my goodness, they are adorable
A bit of sad news - we lost another egg. It was crushed - think it was the setup and how Miss Juno had to step over the roost to get to her eggs. We removed the roost and she moved her seven remaining eggs into the back corner of her coop. She was very unhappy - as was my son (who had to open the egg - the super scientist). There was a chick growing
awwww
here's hoping ! the rest are coming REALLY SOON, and since you haven't had the unattended-eggs problem that Dana got blindsided with, the rest may all make it
I suspect that the hatchery originally selected the foundation stock they use, for as many live chicks as possible from their eggs; which means we get pretty good hatches from the eggs we get from the chicks they send that survive ... assuming good incubator management or good broodies !
yeah, Dana too got one crushed egg and one possibly-stepped-on baby chick ... I guess this is what we have to expect from the situations ...
looking forward to seeing what comes from the eggs you selected ... looks like Dana is getting both gold duckwings and silver duckwings, we'll see .... and it's looking like my roo is passing along Columbian and silver and possibly blue genes, not Dominant White (we'd have yellow chicks if he had DW)
my rusty-mahogany-red chipmunk chick grew up to be a mahogany-gold pullet; my goldy-brown chipmunk chicks turned into gold duckwings, and my mink-brown chick turned into that fancydancy roo ... none of mine looked particularly blue or gray ... so this is fun, to see what's happening
Huh. Well I'm interested to see what the silver and gray turn out like. I'm getting just a little too fond of the silvery chick in particular. Don't have anything like that in my flock yet...
