Random menagerie Christmastime hatch-a-long

[gimmie birdies]

Babies are cute!

 

[wrathsfarm]

Congrats on your great hatch. You have lots of cuteness going on.

 

[Slothinc]

Thanks so much everyone! The final batch of eggs is going to start hatching within the next 24 hours! All are from my own flock.

Set 12/12

Silkie eggs from my birds (2-3 are from my NN paint hen and the rest are all from my gold birchen hen) I labeled NN on the ones from that hen.

80 NN Partridge Pear
81 Turtle Dove
84 French Hen
85 Calling Bird
86 Golden Ring
87 Geese Laying
89 Swan Swimming
90 Maid Milking
91 NN Lady Dancing
92 Lord Leaping
94 Piper Piping
95 OE Drummer Drumming



Set 12/13

96 NN Snowball
97 OE Star @wrathsfarm
98 OE Stocking

Im eager to see if any of these chicks that aren’t from the NN hatch out paint. If so, then I will know that they came from my little paint EE cockerel instead of the NN frizzle silkie that all the rest of the chicks appear to have come from.

 

[wrathsfarm]

Thanks so much everyone! The final batch of eggs is going to start hatching within the next 24 hours! All are from my own flock.

Set 12/12

Silkie eggs from my birds (2-3 are from my NN paint hen and the rest are all from my gold birchen hen) I labeled NN on the ones from that hen.

80 NN Partridge Pear
81 Turtle Dove
84 French Hen
85 Calling Bird
86 Golden Ring
87 Geese Laying
89 Swan Swimming
90 Maid Milking
91 NN Lady Dancing
92 Lord Leaping
94 Piper Piping
95 OE Drummer Drumming



Set 12/13

96 NN Snowball
97 OE Star
98 OE Stocking

Im eager to see if any of these chicks that aren’t from the NN hatch out paint. If so, then I will know that they came from my little paint EE cockerel instead of the NN frizzle silkie that all the rest of the chicks appear to have come from.

If I can pick an egg to root for I'll take 97....

 

[Slothinc]

If I can pick an egg to root for I'll take 97....

Absolutely!! Star is yours ️

 

[wrathsfarm]

Absolutely!! Star is yours ️

Thank you, sorry if I missed it in your thread but if it's an Olive Egger egg, what mix is it?

 

[Slothinc]

Thank you, sorry if I missed it in your thread but if it's an Olive Egger egg, what mix is it?

The chicks coming out of the olive eggs are from one hen that I have that is half recessive white silkied EE (blue egg gene), and half blue cuckoo marans. The cockerel that has sired all of the chicks from the olive eggs thus far has been a black frizzled silkie showgirl who carries recessive white. So the chicks have been super fun combinations and have a chance at being NN, frizzled, silkied or satin. Some have been recessive white, some black, and some black with reddish brown on the heads. All of them so far have sold! So I hope these three remaining OE eggs hatch so I can grow out a few. I’ll attach pics of the parents.

 

[Slothinc]

A few eggs have hatched today so far! And all have been white/paint so I think that the white paint EE cockerel managed to cover my gold birchen silkie hen (most of the eggs hatching today have been hers.)

80 NN Partridge Pear
81 Turtle Dove
84 French Hen pipped
85 Calling Bird HATCHED paint
86 Golden Ring
87 Geese Laying pipped
89 Swan Swimming HATCHED paint
90 Maid Milking pipped
91 NN Lady Dancing HATCHED Paint
92 Lord Leaping HATCHED paint
94 Piper Piping
95 OE Drummer Drumming

Set 12/13

96 NN Snowball
97 OE Star @wrathsfarm
98 OE Stocking

Pics of the mom and dad of most of the chicks from today.

 

[Cheekychook12]

A few eggs have hatched today so far! And all have been white/paint so I think that the white paint EE cockerel managed to cover my gold birchen silkie hen (most of the eggs hatching today have been hers.)

80 NN Partridge Pear
81 Turtle Dove
84 French Hen pipped
85 Calling Bird HATCHED paint
86 Golden Ring
87 Geese Laying pipped
89 Swan Swimming HATCHED paint
90 Maid Milking pipped
91 NN Lady Dancing HATCHED Paint
92 Lord Leaping HATCHED paint
94 Piper Piping
95 OE Drummer Drumming

Set 12/13

96 NN Snowball
97 OE Star @wrathsfarm
98 OE Stocking

Pics of the mom and dad of most of the chicks from today.

Did eggnog end up hatching?

 

[Slothinc]

Did eggnog end up hatching?

Yes!!! I totally forgot to post pics of Noggy here, but I posted them on the new years hatch along thread. Let me find the pics of him. He’s so cute! The darkest blue of the silkies that hatched.