My first chicken hatch ever on video!

Good morning permies,
        Several weeks ago, when I was out running, I came across a rooster someone had dumped off out in the country. He was an extremely friendly Buff Orpington.

I decided to give him to a friend of mine who keeps chickens where you can have a rooster in exchange for fertilized eggs.

I put the eggs in the incubator 21 days ago, and last night, my first chicken hatched.

It is a Rhode Island Red mixed with the Buff Orpington.

The other hybrid I will produce will be a sex-linked chick, meaning I will be able to tell the sex by the colors of the newborn chick!

They will be the Buff Orpington crossed with Barred Rock Hens.


Hatch Video

All 4 have now hatched successfully!

Awww, so sweet! I would love to have seen more of the chick and how it first gets up, etc. It looked a bit stunned when first getting out of the egg. So darn cute!