They grow so fast! It looks like we have 6 English white, 1 pearl fee/italian, 1 silver???, 1 homozygous sparkly, 2 blue fawns, 1 falb fee, 3 Pharoah, 1 grau fee, 4 Roux???, 2 Roux sparkly???, 5 roux??, 1 scarlet???? All the question marks are me being unsure - I have a lot of ruddy/reddish...
Okay. I have taken photos of every color variation that I think I have. I think one of them looks very different on camera but whatever, I guess.
I'd ask ya'll to please excuse the poop but I think most of us are used to the butt habits of baby birds.
I am going to desperately attempt to write down how many of what color I hatched once I get home from work. The chicks do fine without the brooder plate for quite a while, but I feel so bad for the late hatches who aren't as feathered. Fingers crossed I can manage to figure out 30 tiny nuggets...
I...do not. Most of the chicks dried into different shades (which was too late for me to record) and some are pretty identical. I'll take a picture tonight when we change out their dog pad.
2 left! I was able to successfully assist 4 of the final eggs, but these two still have active vessels. One of them is almost done, the other has very obviously active vessels. I'm not really sure why this chick is so late - the egg itself is a bit bigger, so it might just be a bigger chick...
And finally, with Flan for scale. She's been our broodiest hen and, while she hasn't been interested in mothering chicks, we've tried introducing her to a chick before and she's been very gentle. This picture is partly because I want to see if she'll adopt these babies, and partially so ya'll...
All the chicks so far! They're all bundled up on a tiny heat mat - not shown is me putting their brooder plate back in right after this photo. The camera is handy for when I don't want to move the brooder but want to check on the chicks. They're so small! Each chick is like...1 inch long.
I'd...
Good morning! I went to bed with four babies in the incubator, drying out, and woke up to 13. Nine more hatched overnight! I have no idea which chicks hatched out of which eggs, but 4, 13, 25, 15, 30, 12, 23, 24, and 27 are all out. It's about this time that I make safety holes for any unpipped...
15 have hatched! I've been editing and updating the list on page 9, for those waiting for a particular chick. One of the single numbers chipped off most of its number when it hatched, so...I think it was 7, but I'm not sure.
11 has hatched - another roux tuxedo, I think? 22 also hatched - too wet to really tell, but possibly the same? 9 chicks so far!
I have a feeling I'm gonna need to band these babies...or just save this list and try to name them correctly as they grow.