[tosca100]

Three chunky little marans, eleven days old, but I have a feeling only one will be giving me dark brown eggs! Poor hatch rate but we did get the eggs very early in a cold spell. Will try to get more when the incubators are free.

[splash101]

Congratulations.

Love little chickie pics

[Springlands]

Oh they are lovely. Hope they are all girls and give you lots of eggs. 

[nerdle]

Adorable!

[Mum2mj]

I'm jealous they are gorgeous!   

[BIG ZOOK]

  Great little chicks .Out of 50 cuckoo maran eggs last yr 44 were fertile and hatched , 6 died and  :mad:5 were hens.Not hatching again.

[tosca100]

Great little chicks .Out of 50 cuckoo maran eggs last yr 44 were fertile and hatched , 6 died and  :mad:5 were hens.Not hatching again.

If we could get pullets we would. We have 12 araucana eggs in at the moment, but there seems to be only two fertile, so we will give up on them.

[Mum2mj]

Great little chicks .Out of 50 cuckoo maran eggs last yr 44 were fertile and hatched , 6 died and  :mad:5 were hens.Not hatching again.

Oh no that's unfortunate. I'd love to hatch something, maybe quail

[BIG ZOOK]

If you could sex new born chicks of a mixed parentage easily :)You could cull the cockerels  asap even though they are lovely fluffy things .I waited  until my boys were 20 weeks old b4 I had them removed .I know that some breeds are easily sexed,but most of us have a mixture.Guess I`m just 2 soft.

[tosca100]

Judging by the chunky legs on two of these it looks as if we will be looking for a home for them, but can't really leave the other on it's own yet. Mosy domestic chickens out here are 'just chickens' or ex-commercial, so recognised reeds or hybrids are sought after. If not there are plenty of poor families in the village who will grow on for the pot.

[tosca100]

The three have been joined by two shumen chicks, looking tiny next to the twoo weeks plus monsters next door. A Dutch ersted (they call them here) has just hatched and it is even smaller.

[Springlands]

They are lovely Tosca.   

I had a giggle when I first opened the post because the pic of the black stork appeared. That would have been a surprise. 

[tosca100]

They are lovely Tosca.   

I had a giggle when I first opened the post because the pic of the black stork appeared. That would have been a surprise. 

  Good job I checked!

[tosca100]

First day out in the garden for the first chicks. Totally unfazed and rather enjoying themselves.

[nerdle]

Wonderful!  Sure they are not ostrich chicks?