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I really really like him. I don't know as much about chicken genetics as I would like, but he has thrown some amazing birds. I had an amazing little game mix by him, and from a buffy red female game...she was a gorgeous blue with very dark face (actually, all the chicks from that group had very...

Awesome. Thanks so much!!

haha I am just glad she's a good, determined mom. I have some blue orpingtons that I am hoping she will be around to incubate and hatch for...this time, it hopefully won't happen when I am out of town and unable to control the variables!

Also, the offspring he has produced so far has been predominately blue (8)/black(2-one is the "mother" of the chicks that hatched outside, the other may just be very dark blue. it is the chick in question from the crested cream legbar egg)/splash(2-both from splash marans eggs, both with...

I do have pics. I have lots of pics! I love watching him march around the yard.

oooh cool! Thank you for the reply! So, couch is a dude?

So I have a clutch of eggs hatching, and some of them are crested cream legbar eggs. My rooster is a blue game mix, and when the first chick from a blue egg hatched, it had a white spot on it's head, which reminded me about autosexing. I know pure crested cream legbars are auto sexing...is it...

I figured this might be considered day two, so it wouldn't hurt to offer, and I didn't really expect her to take them. She should have stopped being broody about the time my hatchery order arrived, and she refused those babies (they terrified her) *shrug*

I did try to introduce it to mom, but found that the chick that I introduced the previous night had been pecked to death, and mom wanted nothing to do with this baby. There's another chick pipping in the incubator, but the little couch potato has opened a window to watch the world, and has been...

Yolk is fully absorbed now, and the chick is nice and fluffy!

So I finally went to bed early this morning, and hoped the little one would still be alive when I woke. It's definitely alive, chirping to its self and responsive to stimuli, eyes open, but it was laying in the same position it was in when I left it last night, and still appears kinda wet...

So far, it's still kicking. The amount of yolk still visible is much smaller than some of the other pics on the forum. It's in there laying down, but chattering to it's self a bit

Thank you so much! I will check it out!

I really really want this chick to make it >< I am gonna be pretty sad if it doesn't...it hasn't been a very active chick throughout this whole process, so it wouldn't really surprise me if it doesn't :/ It was already pipped, or I probably would have never known it was breached. I probably...

Thank you so much for the link, Shezadandy! That's actually the exact link that gave me the courage to try to help this chick! I've been reading it and re-reading it for hours, trying to make sure I am not gonna screw this up! The waiting part is the very hardest! I just checked on the little...

Some images I grabbed along the way

Update: you can probably tell from that pic, the olive egg chick was breached. It didn't break through the air cell at all. I have been monitoring this chick all day, and pouring over information in this forum, as not only am I a broody hatch novice, I have almost zero experience with using an...

So I looked for a cheap styrofoam incubator, and couldn't find one...the broody is definitely off the nest today, so I decided to experiment. I made a brooder. It cost me less than $20, and seems to be working. So far, 1 more splash marans has hatched, and another olive egger is on the way...

I've already established that this nest got too large. That's not what I am asking.

yep. it's a lot of eggs. 41 of them -_-. She actually managed to cover them all. There were 2 duds in the whole thing...I actually candled them today...one had broken through the air cell and was chirping in the egg, so it's probably on its' way....seven crested cream legbar eggs are viable...