SeramaSilly Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Yay - how eggciting!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 OOOOOh, can't wait to see some pics!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 1st egg pipped at 8:30pm yesterday, then made us wait until nearly 2pm today before starting to unzip! Then took an hour to get right around the shell but the membrane was too intact and it couldn’t push the shell halves apart. I whipped it out of the incubator and in about 10 seconds flat severed the membrane and popped it back in the incubator. Another 10 seconds after that and it was fully hatched 🐣 Now snoozing and drying out in the incubator waiting for egg number 2 which pipped around lunchtime today ☺️ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeramaSilly Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Aw what a cutie!! x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted June 25, 2020 Author Share Posted June 25, 2020 Second one is out now too 😀 It waited 21 hours after pipping! I thought it was dead as it had been so still, but took it out of the incubator, tapped it and held it to my ear and heard it cheeping!! I had to go out but OH texted me a couple of hours later to say it was hatching 🐣. So number 2 is now in the incubator snoozing and drying out, while number 1 (who was actually number 5) is currently racketing around with two mates I bought (because I didn’t think the second would hatch) showing them where the food and water are 😍 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Yay - thanks for sharing. Gorgeous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Oh, how did I miss this update They are all beautiful and so cute 😊 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeramaSilly Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Aw how lovely!!! What breed days olds did you get Mullet ? x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted June 29, 2020 Author Share Posted June 29, 2020 They’re araucana bantams too. Or at least they probably are. The girls I got them from had Cuckoo Araucana bantams in with Suffolk Chequer bantams - she said she’s pretty sure the ones I’ve got are araucana but they may possibly not be! They do have Some little feathers on their legs though, and neither breed should have 🧐 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted July 3, 2020 Author Share Posted July 3, 2020 Here’s a dim photo of my brooder box - cheeps are under their brooder. And a photo of said cheeps a few days ago - it’s very difficult to get all four of them facing the camera! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Lovely photo of the chicks, they look like models, all haughty and proud! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeramaSilly Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 2 hours ago, Daphne said: Lovely photo of the chicks, they look like models, all haughty and proud! They so do!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 Just over three weeks old now and the cheeps have been playing out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted December 7, 2020 Author Share Posted December 7, 2020 Well - bit of an update 5 months on. The yellow chick was the only female - she’s called Polly and she started laying beautiful little blue eggs last week Of the two cuckoo coloured boys (Big Cheep and Small Cheep) i rehomed Big Cheep a couple of months ago, and Small Cheep was with me until today when he went to live with my mums 4 hybrid girls - he’s quite small but somehow after a brief scuffle with the top hen, which I swear he lost, he somehow seems to be immediately in charge 🤷♀️ The sort of partridge colour chick (Cheep No. 1) went has also been rehomed - his new owners sent me a photo of him and he now looks magnificent!! Here are photo’s of Polly, Small Cheep and Cheep No. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 You must be, and rightly so, very proud. They are all lovely looking birds, brought into the world by your care and attention. What a treat to see them, thanks for putting up the pictures😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 All very beautiful. I am very jealous of you being able to hatch. Knowing my luck I would get all boys and and nowhere to put them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 28 minutes ago, Luvachicken said: Knowing my luck I would get all boys and and nowhere to put them. Out of three hatches I’ve only had 2 pullets so I’m not doing great myself 🤦🏼♀️ And I’ve just been lucky with the boys so far. I’d resigned myself to having to cull hem this time which I would’ve hated so I’m delighted to have found them all good homes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
