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Day 6! Developing chickies will have these great big globe eyes and be teenie tiny still.

I’m in the hunt for best ways to track chicks as they grow. I’ve got a lot of ideas. I’ve tried those chick bands from Amazon that are basically just small rubber bands and they fall off.

I’m considering just used non toxic marker until they get older and then I will let band them with an ID number.
 
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Day 6! Developing chickies will have these great big globe eyes and be teenie tiny still.

I’m in the hunt for best ways to track chicks as they grow. I’ve got a lot of ideas. I’ve tried those chick bands from Amazon that are basically just small rubber bands and they fall off.

I’m considering just used non toxic marker until they get older and then I will let band them with an ID number.
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Draw their little emojis on their leg? 🤔
Hold still squirmy chick... 🤣
 
Candling is tomorrow !!!!

My daughter has forbade me from opening the incubators to candle today (BUT I WANT TO) because she says I’m impatient and disturb them too much. She admonishes my over candling ways!

She’s much more patient with egg hatching than me. When she hatched a mutt backyard batch last January she got a 91% hatch rate 11/12… but there was a power outage in her incubator for about 4 hours and she said that’s why most of them were cockerels.
 
athomas718 said:
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Day 6! Developing chickies will have these great big globe eyes and be teenie tiny still.

I’m in the hunt for best ways to track chicks as they grow. I’ve got a lot of ideas. I’ve tried those chick bands from Amazon that are basically just small rubber bands and they fall off.

I’m considering just used non toxic marker until they get older and then I will let band them with an ID number.
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This is actually today’s development lol oops
 
athomas718 said:
Candling is tomorrow !!!!

My daughter has forbade me from opening the incubators to candle today (BUT I WANT TO) because she says I’m impatient and disturb them too much. She admonishes my over candling ways!

She’s much more patient with egg hatching than me. When she hatched a mutt backyard batch last January she got a 91% hatch rate 11/12… but there was a power outage in her incubator for about 4 hours and she said that’s why most of them were cockerels.
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Lol I used to be such an impatient candler as well! What actually helped me the most was moving the incubator off of my kitchen counter and putting it behind closed doors in the laundry room - kind of out of sight, out of mind 🤣 but it is really hard to resist candling!

Also, you may have been joking about the cockerels haha but I just wanted to confirm that the gender wouldn’t have been determined by the power being out for a few hours. Some animals (alligators come to mind) can have the gender determined by the temperature at which they are incubated, but with chickens, the gender is determined by the chromosomes from the parents, similar to humans. One thing that is different for chickens is that the mother determines gender - they are ZW, and the males are ZZ. So if the female gives a Z chromosome, the chick will be male, and a W chromosome will be female.
 
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Lol I used to be such an impatient candler as well! What actually helped me the most was moving the incubator off of my kitchen counter and putting it behind closed doors in the laundry room - kind of out of sight, out of mind 🤣 but it is really hard to resist candling!

Also, you may have been joking about the cockerels haha but I just wanted to confirm that the gender wouldn’t have been determined by the power being out for a few hours. Some animals (alligators come to mind) can have the gender determined by the temperature at which they are incubated, but with chickens, the gender is determined by the chromosomes from the parents, similar to humans. One thing that is different for chickens is that the mother determines gender - they are ZW, and the males are ZZ. So if the female gives a Z chromosome, the chick will be male, and a W chromosome will be female.
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Oh yes I was joking. It’s kind of our inside joke for the large amount of cockerels we got in that hatch. 11 hatched, only 2 were female.
 

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