[Caroline1]

I was never told how stressful hatching chicks was, the first time I used an incubator we had a power cut overnight half way through the incubation period, I thought all 20 eggs were a gonna, but 3 hatched with only 1 surviving and she is still with me nearly 6 years later. I think she is a bit "special" but still fighting fit. From that point on, I have been amazed by how strong those little chicks can be.

[KahlanA]

I'll enclose the photos. I read that one layer of feathers at the tip of the wing indicated male and multiple layers indicated female.

https://survivalfarm.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/chicken-sex-feather-sexing-day-old-chicks/pullet-rooster-wing/

This was shown very clearly (if it's true!) on our pekins - two had two layers and two had one. I'll attach the photos but I apologise as they aren't the clearest.

[KahlanA]

Caroline - thoroughly agree!

Not sure I'll repeat it! I was up checking them at all hours as our downstairs fuse trips at the slightest thing so I'd wake and panic the incubator had no power! So glad they're out now!