It's Official...

[PeepsCA]

It's that time of year for me again. My 1st Hatch for 2013

 

[AlienChick]

Congratulations!!

I LOVE this time of year!!

New babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JLeigh]

NOT FAIR!!! Well, okay, maybe it is fair. Those babies are SO CUTE. Let me see if I can guess what colors the keets are - and I'll be happy if I can just get close:

5 pied Pearl Grays (or Browns?)
2 Pearl Grays
1 Royal Purple
1 Chocolate
1 Lavendar
1 Lavendar-ish (can't tell because its head is covered)
1 Chocolate or Brown
1 Buff

Am I even close?

Congratulations. You're back in it for sure .

 

[Colourful]

Nawww, they are adorable! Have fun with your newest hatching season!

 

[TarheelBirdy]

First batch of bucket babies!! Yay!

 

[tomingreeneco]

I'm jealous!

Would love to hatch out some more keets, but my coop is maxed out.

 

[PeepsCA]

NOT FAIR!!! Well, okay, maybe it is fair. Those babies are SO CUTE. Let me see if I can guess what colors the keets are - and I'll be happy if I can just get close:

5 pied Pearl Grays (or Browns?) - Correct, Pied Pearl Greys... and they all have the blended color down, no body stripes so they look different than a typical Pied keet.
2 Pearl Grays - Correct
1 Royal Purple - Correct
1 Chocolate - Correct, one of my 2nd line of Chocolates that hatch out really red/golden, on the right.
1 Lavendar - Correct
1 Lavendar-ish (can't tell because its head is covered) - Sorta correct, Pied Lavender with blended down.
1 Chocolate or Brown...There's an off colored keet in the mix over on the left, it's color is weird. Somewhere in between a Royal Purple and Chocolate keet's coloring. The last 2 I had like that from last yr's hatches turned out to be what I consider Blondes, as adults. We shall see how this one starts feathering in.
1 Buff - No Buff in this hatch... but there's a heavily Pied light blue keet (of some shade in the blue gene family) that my watermark is kind of covering up (really narrow light grey head stripe). It may be a (non-pearled) Pied Powder Blue, but not sure yet. I have 2 males that color in one of my flocks. Sometimes the blue/lavender colors that I hatch from my flocks can be hard for me to ID correctly until I see their feathers growing in... the down can be blended and mean it's a fully pearled bird or it can be solid and mean it's a non-pearled bird. They will look the same after they hatch and I can't tell them a part until they are about 2 wks old.

Am I even close? Yep, and you did pretty good!

Congratulations. You're back in it for sure . Umm Thanks... do I really wanna do this again tho??? LOL. What was the term you used the other day in reference to having a hatching addiction fix in the brooder? Poopy Goodness? Yah, got that going on for sure. Poop machines X13!!!

 

[PeepsCA]

First batch of bucket babies!! Yay!

Easiest way to take pics of them and get them all to stay in one spot, sort of holding still, lol. That bucket has been in a lot of keet photo ops... lol

 

[PeepsCA]

I'm jealous!

Would love to hatch out some more keets, but my coop is maxed out.

Build another one? LOL (Sorry, the enabler in me never stays quiet!).

 

[PeepsCA]

Next pic in a week... I've been setting a batch of eggs every week so far since I set this first batch. Going to set another batch tonight.
Here we go again, lol