Recent content by Guido

Now I am utterly confused!

I bought some UK standard Araucana bantam hatching eggs to hatch, all supposed to be lavender. 3 of the 6 hatched, and are doing well. All the eggs were blue, all the way through. All 3 chicks are different colours, and the seller told me that his hatches were also "throwing some colours" At...

Mine is a little over 10 days old. Happy energetic little thing.

Very similar to the severity of my little one's beak. And I tend to agree about the skull distortion, goofy has it too. Almost like the skull got twisted or squashed to one side a bit. If it is taking more time to eat, that's OK, it is eating. I am just seeing where this goes. That overhanging...

I have an Araucana chick with scissor beak too. my suspicion was an early issue with the incubator having a fit when my little helpers...umm...helped out and it briefly overheated. Can also be caused by the chick not getting into the right position to hatch. I noticed the misalignment when first...

Interesting, didn't realise that, I was more interested in the energy efficiency of the plate over a lamp. Good to hear though.

It seems to be fine, one chick seems to forget what it is for though!

These were supposedly all lavender aruacana, bought as hatching eggs on ebay. I just loved that colour. Given that I have I assume white, black and lavender they won't be bred from. I messaged the seller and he said he'd had a hatch do that too, said "they're throwing some colours" out of the...

I know you all like updates and the gratuitous "chick pick" So much for all lavender Aruacana!

2 external pips so far today, can hear cheeping, one egg not doing much...yett

Wow! My mind has been blown open. I could get terribly into that!

Lesson of the day, not all candled movement is equal... One egg leaked last night, abnormal coloured liquid, smelt bad. Out it came, looks like a saw black liquid sloshing around in the egg and not actual movement. Although i did have my suspicions about this one. I have 3 left, in work at the...

Update, day 17 over into the start of day 18, final candle done 4/4 have movement at the edge near the air sack, so all alive so far. So lock down now, day 18 start, or day 18 end?

No not feathered legs or feet, they have tufts, some rumpless some not. It's the blue-green eggs that got me hooked!