That's interesting as far as the sheen goes. I've not taken photos of them with a flash, only iPhone photos which are what I posted and that was without flash. As far as the chicks not looking like Isabelle I'm a bit confused about. The Isabelle's are the lavender diluted version of the brown...
I borrowed a friends octagon once (when I "accidentally" bought too many hatching eggs) I did side by side hatches in my mini and her octagon and I had a much better hatch out of my mini. I've been very pleased with it...and because it's small it keeps me from setting two dozen eggs at a time :D
I wanted to share my latest hatch. I've been waiting for these eggs since last year and I'm more than a little excited so I had to share! It all started with me looking for a white egg layer to set off the color of my other eggs. I have every other color of egg so I thought the white would just...