I honestly don't know. DH insisted we get this bantam pair about a month or so ago. So, i put a few of their first eggs into the incubator to see if their color breeds true. We've been lied to before when it comes to bantams. But, this pair seem to be good. The hen lays very small white eggs...
I forgot to post pictures from my "just before midnight on Halloween" hatchling. This little bantam chick popped out of the shell just before midnight and became the last of my chicks to hatch in October. The rest of the eggs will be November hatches.
18 hours! That is how long this duckling has been trying to get out of the shell. The internal pip happened sometime before 6am thursday. It is now after 12am friday. Yes, this has been an assisted hatch. The aircell formed at the narrow end of the egg. To encourage the chick into a mal-position...
Yay!! My muscovy hen has finally started laying! I am so very tempted to try and hatch them, but I dont't know if they are pure. She spends most of her time with one particular blue muscovy drake. However, they free range with the rest of the backyard avian zoo (lol). And, I recently caught a...
Noooo!!!!!! :th I dropped and egg... and it was fertile and developing!! :hit
I was candling and the egg slipped and fell, almost landing on a cat's head. It was a Splash Ameraucana too!
I am having an issue with singleton hatches. This latest duck hatch was a bust. One duckling hatched, three internal pips never broke through the shell, the rest never pipped. :he
Well, at least I have this adorable little drake. He is in with some week old chicks, so he has company and isn't...
I am still learning because this is our first year. But, from my understanding is there is a lot of science involve. Identifying various plants, bugs, tools, and proper use of those tools, compass and map skills, and more.
Posting a quick update before I call it a night.
Woke up this morning to three early (I thought) Ameraucana mix chicks in the incubator. They were from eggs my white Ameraucana hen laid, but I don't know which rooster fertilized the eggs. I think it was my white rooster that was I sold this...