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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Another hatch done, 4 new peeps out overnight. Very excited about these babies, y'all! Look at these gorgeous Blues out of Sterling!! 😍 :love I'm looking forward to seeing how they feather in. Hopefully they're a nice, lighter-toned Blue like their chick down implies. I've been hoping to...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    The newest kiddos, fluffed and on their feet in the brooder! :love It looks like 2 Blues and 5 Blacks in this batch. The two at the center of the pic closest to the waterer are the Blues.
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Here are the other 4 babies, freshly leg banded and just before being moved to the brooder. Look at this set of grouches! 🤭 I did open up the quitter and it also looks like a healthy chick, simply malpositioned so it couldn't hatch. It's like its head got caught between its feet and it...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    We had 7 out of 8 hatch in this batch and so far they all appear to be healthy and normal :fl I will hold off on my final verdict until they dry and fluff fully. The 8th egg quit just before draw down began for the hatch. I am planning to open it up later just to make sure it looks normal as...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Just a quick update on the eggs after candling them yesterday. As I suspected from peeking, I have a 50% fertility rate on the green band pen: 4 out of the 8 were clear. :barnie The other 4 are developing well, and the 8 red band eggs are still going strong. I just got home from a loooong trip...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Fertility's not looking too hot in the green band pen. 8 eggs set on Sunday and it's looking like only 4 or 5 are developing :barnie This is Sterling's first year with hens, so I guess he just needs more practice with his flirting. I'll set another batch from that pen probably in a few weeks...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    We have 8 out of 8 of the corner coop eggs in the second batch developing! Tomorrow is the official day 7 candling, but naturally I peeked early :D I also did actually move the extra hens from the green band pen this week, so I will have a batch of eggs to set from them this weekend! Aiming...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Kya has hatched her 4 eggs successfully, bringing the 2025 blue band tally up to 9 chicks. Kya appears to have 3 Blues and 1 Black, so no Splashes this year unless I end up setting one more batch from the blue banders at some point. This is from yesterday, but here she is with baby number 1 (and...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Opal hatched all 5 of her eggs! :love It looks like 4 Blues and 1 Black, but I'm not sure as of yet because I'm only getting glimpses of them under her. They're still finding their land legs, so I suspect it'll be late today or early tomorrow before she takes them off the nest. Here's a glimpse...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Opal's eggs are starting to draw down :wee More peeps are on the way! And since that would be an awfully short / empty post on its own, here's a close-up of one of the two-week-olds to go along with it :love
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Two-week check in! Not the greatest picture because we are officially no longer cooperative with the idea of pictures outside of the brooder, so I had to try and get their attention within the brooder for this 🤣 I have another brood due in the next few days underneath Opal, and a brood due...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Just a quick one-week-old check-in with the peeps! Here are the Blues: And the Blacks: We are not fans of leaving the brooder for pictures, if it wasn't clear 😅
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    I think I'm officially calling it an even split of Blues and Blacks in this batch. Here are the Blues: And the Blacks: I have another batch in the incubator that was under a broody hen, but she began to have a bloated crop and I decided to bust her in the interest of her health versus...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    The hatch is done! All 8 that made it to lock down hatched! :wee The oldest two are both Blues: Next three are 2 Blues and a Black: The youngest three are still fluffing so I haven't decided how many are Black, but the one in the middle is for sure a Blue. Unfortunately, this was the...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    I realized I ought to be posting this here as well, not just in my general flock thread. :oops: That batch I mentioned in my above post is now hatching! First, I should mention that there were 6 clears and 1 early quitter, leaving 8 eggs that made it to lock down. I realized midway through...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    First batch of the year is set! 14 eggs from the corner coop (Gus III over Duckling and Priscilla). 21 days until our first babies of the year!! :wee (EDIT: Make that 15 eggs! I got just one more from the corner coop tonight and went ahead and set it, too. Any further collected from them will...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Might have to wait until May for that with everything I've got going on at the moment, but hopefully it'll be worth the wait. 😁 Oh, goodness, it's always the ones you least expect, isn't it? :th Hopefully they eventually settle their differences as well! My boys seem to be settled now, but...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Thanks, y'all! I'm glad the notes were appreciated--and not too scattered! I figured that a lot of what I'm seeing in person isn't shown in the pictures (and in some cases the pictures make the birds look a lot better or worse than they are!), so I felt like it was worth explaining my decisions...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    I sorted through my 2024 hatch birds today! The girls, anyway. Honestly, I keep looking at the cockerels and thinking there's only one, maybe two at best that are worth hanging onto at this point. I will take a closer look at some of them tomorrow. I'd ideally like to keep back the best from...
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    Breeding silkied Cochin bantams to the Standard

    Here is the Splash boy that may take Bucky's place in the future. Of course, trying to get any of them to pose decently without one of the other birds standing in the way is a nightmare, so it's not the best shot of him. He is not perfect, but I do think he's already got nicer fluff and type...
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