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Hi all, we have serama (micro to B), Japanese bantam, as well as some gorgeous cochin crosses available on a regular basis. Will also be setting Ayam cemani soon. Conveniently located in Toronto, please message me for details, to be put on wait list for a particular breed, or to ask about...

I have this gorgeous Andalusian X Cochin hatched June 3, so it's almost 3 weeks old. I know it's early, but this sweet chick has started developing an orange comb. I know that Andalusians have red combs for both male and females, so I'm hoping my suspicions that this is a roo is wrong. We...

I have one teeny serama chick that hatched on June 8, and I didn't think it would hatch tbh, the egg was only slightly bigger than a coturnix egg. The other seramas that hatched from that set are all much bigger and have already gone to their new homes. I am keeping this baby, and had it in my...

Hi all, first time hatching silkies, and got 5/5 that went into lockdown, yay! The breeder I got them from has a white roo, and a blue roo, and hens are blue, blue splash, black and white. She also says her whites carry lavender as a recessive gene and she has gotten lavender chicks before...

My CBBQ hatched June 3, so are 17 days old. I thought it's too early, but two of the wild colored definitely are showing the white band around their necks and the tail feathers are coming out a brick red (sorry for the not so great pics but it's definitely a rusty/brick red). The other wild I...

My very first button quail hatch, and these are my survivors from 13 eggs that went into lockdown... Can someone tell me what colours they are? From googling, I'm thinking: - 2 wild/normal - 2 silver - 1 cinnamon - 1 golden pearl - 1 red breasted Am I off?

First time hatching chicks, I usually hatch call ducks, so I'm woefully new... Just hatched out 8 chicks (right on schedule!). One was an assist with feet over head, the rest pipped, zipped and hatched on their own. The one I assisted is the one I'm worried about. I only intervened after the...

I have figured out the colors for the rest of the hatch, but this one stumped me. It's the lone one without blue markings, the rest are blue fawn, blue bibbed, and blue pied, with a grey mallard. I see some silver on the head, so can't be white? So is the silver pastel? Or maybe I'm blind...

Hi all, hatched out 10 call ducklings early this morning, from an original set of 18 (11 made it to lockdown). A dozen of the eggs were from a local breeder who let her colors run together, and 6 were from my hen and drake. My hen is a grey mallard, and the drake is a magpie, so I know their...

I have been selling my extra call eggs locally, and reluctantly agreed to ship a half dozen to someone in a small town about 6 hours drive away...reluctantly since I know shipped eggs always carry a high risk, and because I had no clue how to best pack them up safely. The shipped eggs I'd...

From an original 18 eggs set, 11 call duck eggs have made it to lockdown today! 5 were yolkers, and 2 had early deaths (1, I discovered, was a double yolker and made it to about 15 days, the other had a blood ring on day 7). Lots of wobbling, but I'm keeping an eye on three of them...one is a...

I just splurged and got the Borotto lumia 16, which has built in quail rails, fitting 4 per cup. First turn, and all the eggs fell through the larger hole in the middle...cracked 3 and I'm crying lol. Anyone have a hack to fix this or jerry rig some sort of cushion? Stock photo used to show...

Hi all, I have 2 dozen button quail incubating and expected to hatch in about 8-9 days, and I have been looking everywhere for gamebird starter. I'm in the city, and the nearest feed store is about 1.5 hours away and won't ship, since it's a 50lb bag. I was able to find an online store willing...

Hi all, I received recently half a dozen "fun pack" hatching eggs that are all heritage breeds, but are a "mix of Ameraucana (black, mottled and wheaten), Appenzeller spitzhauben mixes, Silverud Isbar, Crested Cream Legbar, Lavender Orpington, Welsummer, Maran, Wyandotte, and Easter Eggers"...

Hi all, am in Toronto and have about half a dozen fertile call duck eggs a week (parents are grey mallard and magpie). May have ducklings later in the summer as well. Looking to sell hatching eggs or trade for bantam chicken breeds (silver sebright, serama, white or splash silkies, cochins) or...

Hi BYC experts! Can someone tell me what color my drake is? I've been calling him a black magpie, but have had people call him chocolate magpie, ancona, east indies magpie (pretty sure that's not a thing) so I don't know anymore. Not sure if pics show it, but his coloring underneath is...

Set 18 call duck eggs, and candled today at day 7. 3 definite yolkers, and these 2 I'm pretty certain are quitters but wanted to ask before I toss... One egg does have ONE faint vein, but considering the winners in the bunch all have a large network of red veins and I can see the embryo, I'm...

I just wanted to say that even though I'm new to incubating, I did a ton of research, and got a lot of info from here. My first time was a hatch of call ducks, and while I definitely made mistakes, the things I learned from here including how to assist gave me a 75% hatch rate, though only 2...

Help! I didn't realize my automatic turner had broken (and I have no clue WHEN it did) until I went to check on the humidity today and saw all four of my call duck eggs laying there with the X I marked on STILL on the top. The last time I had gone into the bator was almost 2 days ago since I'm...

Hi all, first post but have been devouring the information found here for a while. I have a matched pair of call ducks, and the hen started laying 2 weeks ago. I totally understand that I should have more hens per drake, but I'm living in a large city where our ducks are kind of illegal...