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Kernel the white one is I believe a pure cochin bantam. He is getting a bigger comb and it is pink at this point, more so than the photo shows. He also is almost fully feathered now. Is he a he? His clutch mate is part cochin bantam I think. Any guesses as to what else? She has only her wing...

I harched out three babies this past weekend, two bantys and one wyandotte mix I believe. The wyandotte was the last to hatch of the three that did and the umbilicle cord was still attached! I freaked out a little but the chick seemed fine and the cord dried up but hadnt fallen off yet. She was...

I work third shift and came home to find the third egg that had pipped had hatched but she has parts coming out of her navel!! It looks like the white part that was left in the other two eggs when they hatched and some bloody veining. I am not sure what or even how to describe it but things dont...

I put my 6 eggs into my hatching bator yesterday, when I got up around 4:30am this morning to deal with a crying child I decided to pop my head in to make sure none of my eggs were getting fried and to my surprise a bantam had hatched! Its all grey with 4 toes and half of them are black and...

Well, I have 6 eggs ready to go into the hatcher for their 3 day wait. I made a second bator for a hatcher two weeks ago because I got some splash cochins a week after I set the first ones, then I got some bantam millie cochins last friday so I definetely need a hatcher... Anyway, I made it...

So I got some splash cochins off ebay last week and they were sent out Tuesday priority mail(so 2-3 days) on one of the nicest weeks we have had so far! Of course the stinkin post office didnt deliver them until Monday and it was cold all weekend and freezing all day. I bought 10 she sent 12 and...

So far I have built the floor and framed all the walls in my basement so that I can just take the pieces outside and finish the construction there. We are in for a nice bit of weather for the next few days and I would like to put up the coop but hubby says no, to wait because once things really...

Hello all! Well, I made a homemade still air incubator out of the "fridge" cooler that came with our pop up camper. I put glass windows in the door for viewing, drilled a hole for a lamp fixture, wired it up ala Miss Prissy with a water heater thermostat, made my own wiggler since I couldnt...

Hello Everyone! I am so excited to join your forum! I have been chicken obsessed for about a month now and actually just got done making a home made brooder! I need to pick up a thermostat/hydrometer with a probe but other than that it is looking pretty good! I used our "ice chest" from our...