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We are now complete... the last five chicks have hatched yesterday. I count now 28 heads in total 6 adults, 9 youngsters and 13 baby chicks. 8 in the "monochrome class" and 20 in the I the mottled section. They have to make space in the main coop. :idunno 🤭 And now since I have decided who to...

I don't know about duck eggs, but chicken eggs might wobble a bit while the chicken is getting in position to hatch or zipping. so I think it's similar. Good luck!

I had to test several times and finished putting a bowl of water in the incubator. With just the reservoir it dropped over night always down to 20-25%, with the bowl I can keep it around 40-50% depending how much water is in it and around time to hatch I add the water into the reservoir to passe...

Check out my thread in the signature. I'm monitoring my millefleur/porcelaine red, my blue/millefleur/columbian mottled and some black and blue mottled chicks closely while growing up and changing colors.

Update on the first half of surprise eggs: 5/5 successfully hatched, one solid black, one grayish, two yellow with blue (?) and one light yellow getting already white wings (so maybe splash..or golden neck) The last five will arrive shortly, two already pipped! They are due for today.

My Japanese bantams, considerate developing slow, are distinguishable within 3-4 weeks, with combs definitely red and pronounced. Therefore, with caution, I'd say your's are hens. The photos are not well taken to see the combs really good. For comparison... my 4 week bantams, you see the cockerel!

So are there black chicken which are not fully fibromelanistic, where just the skin is black , not the interior? I don't know if they crossed yam cements or similaire into the bantams to get this effect or by classic selection of chicken with blacker skin. Funny enough, I saw today the little...

Yes they are! 😍😍😍

I'm new to black colored breeding, so I hope you may have some answers for my questions. I recently got a black faced black japanese bantam and a chocolate bantam hen. They were with, I think a black or chocolate or fibromelanotic rooster where they came from, so I collected the eggs of the...

I think so too, or a small weasel-like critter. I once found several baby chicks and quails killed and the only entrance point was a tiny hole only large enough for a mouse or young rats. I even saw young rats squeezing through 1,8cm distances metal bars to get into the quail cage. In this...

I had the same Mareks-Panic, and on top of it I introduced new hens a week before on the terrain (still in quarantine at that moment) so I freaked out. But in the afterthought I think the chick was to young (it was 3 1/2 weeks old on symptoms onset) and might have had issues from the parent...

8 weeks into the adventure update... The little mille-fleurs have moved successfully to the main coop, they are around 7 weeks old now, fully feathers. They enjoy the large space. The "monochromes", 5 weeks, turn out to be a back mottled cockerel and 2 blue pullets (one surely mottled, the...

I had mine euthanized a week after first symptoms, because it didn't showed improvement after 5 days of vitamin injections and 8 days oral supplement. She was eating fine, alert and generally well awake, but wasn't able to get up on her feet, moving only forward lying against a wall and pushing...

Rest in peace "Coq papy" My dear gentlemen rooster died today of unknown cause. Within 24h he lost all is power and will. The vet said that he was nearly starved and dehydrated , although I saw him eating 48h ago, and on a regular basis before. He got vitamin shots and was hydrated, taken in...