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It's easy to lose track of which chicks hatched when. So it's a good habit to photo them at various stages... Even if there's not time to post the photos right away, going back over the weeks with a photo album application like Shotwell makes it possible to figure out which set of chicks came out of their shells on which day...

These chicks all went to other homes but they came out of their shells and the incubator from May 7th to May 9th.. I'm wondering if the hatch-rate is bad because I take the early chicks out too soon and the temperature and humidity changes make it harder for the other chicks to complete their growth and break their shells. A neighbor with a lot of chickens and experience said he leaves the chicks in the incubator for 3 days.. And he has a lot of chicks running around. In two weeks a few of his Shamo 軍鶏 eggs should hatch along with a few Turkey eggs that I put in a week earlier.. The 7 day difference is convenient, just remember you started the Turkey eggs on a Wedesday and Thursday then start the chicken eggs the next Wednesday night...

Going back over the pixel fed posts reminded me I was calling the supermarket egg birds JiDokKo from hearsay. Later I found the producer's 生産者's bags myself to see that they are labelled JiDori.. People might use the word to refer to the way the birds are raised out in the open on dirt not in a green-house fan-blown animal factory that smells awful and seems unhealthy for everyone, avian and human involved...

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Newest chicks with new chicks. The three Littles ones will go to a new home on Wednesday.. they'll join 3 adult "JiDori" birds from the same egg source..
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New Babies!!

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The JiDokKo birds are interesting.. probably mostly of Shamo軍鶏　descent but not very aggressive so far... We might be eating the beautiful red rooster thud weekend... I've gotten thus urge to focus on Silkies for thrur popular gift eggs and incubating abilities and the huge JiDori birds (probably Amakusa DaiOu 天草大王) for frequent big eggs and occasional turkey-like feasts... the variety is fascinating and I guess it's more sustainable to keep some hybrid vigor around...
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After finally finding the supermarket that most often (I guess) has the fertilized JiDori eggs. I heard that other stores in the same local chain have these eggs they were never there when I looked. In the nice weather the 20 minute drive across town wasn't so bad. The store was much bigger than I expected to be before noticing that it's very close to a Japanes military base. It would be interesting to tack down the producer and ask her about the pedigree (!???!) of the birds.. If they are Amakusa DaiOu birds, or if this is something like the descendents of F-1 hybrid plants splitting into their crossed parent varieties and sometimes looking very different than their immediate ancestor...
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New Chicks: mostly from JiDokKo eggs from the FukuroNoKai (Owl Association) farmer's market, but two are from Silky eggs from that market's table too. The brown striped ones may be from birds that were hatched from JiDori eggs from a local supermarket. Those birds got huge and I want to try hatching a bunch of them.. They are labeled as JiDori.. so they could be anything I guess.. Maybe Amakusa Daiou which is what the look like, I think...

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The little grey chick was hatched by the silky hen from and egg off the Supermarket shelf. Since the box of 6 wasn't labeled for being fertilized no one had great expectations for success. The young Silky hen wasn't having much luck with other eggs and it seemed like a good idea to keep her broody so I used the most interesting eggs at hand.. The supermarket is rumored to sometimes have local eggs labeled as fertilzed but never when I go in.. The 6-box of Nagoya Kochn eggs from an in-prefecture gourmet place seemed like the best I could do with limited time.. Miraculous!!! It motivated me to get a higher-quality incubator to experiment with different eggs like this.. It seems like the more involved you get the more people you find who share the interest and will take extra birds off your hands and raise them... or come over and help with a fun feast...

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