Single hen

[MitchB]

 

So far a Silver Dorking and an Orpington chick have emerged, currently drying out in the incubator.

 

The other three eggs have started pipping but as yet no further.

 

Amazing to watch, family gathered round incubator all evening and DD did not want to go to bed!!!

 

Edited March 5, 2009 by Guest

[Chickvic]

How exciting! Don't forget the pics

[BeckyBoo]

Oh it's just the best! Congratulations, can't wait to see the pics, bet your DD is up early as well!!

 

BeckyBoo

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Congratulations, how exciting .

 

Can't wait to see cute fluffy photos .

[MitchB]

All five chicks have hatched the final one at 7:30 this morning.

 

We have 1 X Silver Dorking ?think this a boy, from the markings - Archie

1 X Buff Orpington - Lily ?

1 X Unknown (meant to be Silver Dorking but not) - Oz ?

2 X Cuckoo Maran - Splodge & Baby ??

 

Will post AWWWW pics later after tea.

[Griffin]

Congratulations! Looking forward to pics.

 

I'll be hatching Silver Grey Dorkings in May so especially looking forward to pics of those. I can't keep cockerels here so my boys will be dinner. Dorkings are supposed to be an excellent meat bird

 

Did you get any sleep last night? I didn't when mine were hatching. My incy is in my bedroom and I could hear what was going on from my bed so had to keep getting up for a nosey

[westleigh]

oh its such a lovely thing to watch,i took two days holiday last year to see my one and only egg hatch,it took nine hours to hatch but it was worth every hour i sat,lucky for me it turned out to be a girl(princess) i also bought a day old chick to keep her company all the best to your new arrivals

[MitchB]

Well here goes first try at Photobucket.

The Nursery

 

 

Baby

 

Archie

 

Oz

 

Lily

 

Splodge

Hope this works

[Guest]

Being nosey they look really good Where did u get your eggs from??

just interested as would like to have a go at hatching some eggs(the Aylesburys i had were hatched under a broody hen by my neighbour..she hatches all her geese everthing..if u ever go through Cottered, herts her birds are the ones on the green roaming around and causing A507 mayhem!!

Well done they are good pics thanks for showing them...

indie

[MitchB]

Indie

 

Thank you.

 

I got them from the dtbcentre.co.uk spoke to a lovely lady there and ordered them, came safely thru post in the polystyrene box. 5 of the 6 were fertile and all hatched as you can see.

 

Michelle

[Chickvic]

Gorgeous pics!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

They are sooooo cute .

[ted]

great pictures. amazed you can tell that archie is male?? are the markings really that different this early...?

[Cooks]

ahhhhhhhhhh they are gorgeous!

[Seagazer]

Gorgeous little things

[Griffin]

great pictures. amazed you can tell that archie is male?? are the markings really that different this early...?

 

There's pics of male & female Silver Grey Dorkings here for comparison:

http://

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Dorks/BRKDorks.html

 

Oz definitely isn't a Dorking is he It'll be interesting to see what you've got instead!

[ted]

Thanks Griffin, thats something else I have learnt. Do most breeds have such a difference from that early?

[feemcg]

Nice hatch ......I have 6 Silver Grey Dorking eggs in the incy........and they're all clear . Giving them another couple of days but I'm fairly sure. I've had really good success with ebay eggs in the past.......suppose it was going to happen eventually

[Cooks]

I think Splodge is my favourite

[Griffin]

Thanks Griffin, thats something else I have learnt. Do most breeds have such a difference from that early?

 

No, I believe it's easier with large fowl but very difficult with smaller breeds such as Silkies and Aracaunas.

 

With my mixed batch of Ebay eggs I was sure about 4/6 at a day old. They're five weeks old now and I still haven't changed my mind about them. My Light Sussex chicks are 11 days old and it was easy to feather sex them, LS are supposed to be amongst the easiest and most reliable. I predicted 4/5 were boys and it looks as if I was right. I guess it was bound to happen considering there were so many girls in the first hatch Why can't I be that lucky all the time?

[MitchB]

Thanks everyone,

 

Been busy enjoying the company of the chicks and also making sure my big girls aren't .

 

OH and I out in garden digging this afternoon in their enclosure it was very comical, the girls at OH's feet watching for the next spadeful of earth to be thrown behind them. It got so he had to stop wait for them to be distracted then put the spade in avoiding any possible accidents.

[beingmaisie]

Aww, they are so lovely and such a difference in colours and markings. I'm hoping to put my first lot of eggs in to incubate next weekend, once kindly hubby has made the incubator anyway.

Makes me even more impatient now seeing those.