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Sounds like a fun project! Your birds are gorgeous!! I'm hoping to get some chamois spitz chicks this year. If I do, I'm going to give up my silvers for 2025 and focus on gold base colors, with black spangling for my blue layers and white spangling for my white egg layers.

I'm interested in hearing more about your Spitz EE project. Here's something I've been working on: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/breeding-experiments-for-colorful-eggs-from-predator-savvy-clean-leg-chickens-with-fun-combs-and-crests.1507965/post-27545969 This is the first year I got...

No problem with acceptance so far. I started off trying to be sneaky getting them under the hen, but realized the hens aren't keeping track. I have 2 good broodies in the flock who are good at raising chicks, but none of them does well with the incubation for 3 weeks because there are so many...

I typically incubate the majority of eggs that I want broody hens to raise. The hatch/survival rate is much higher. I have had success with putting 1-2 live eggs under the hen at lockdown, and adding the rest as newly hatched chicks. (I always put fake eggs under her until I swap them out)

For Spring 2024 breeding, I have more blue-laying Spitz hybrids than I expected, including 1 that looks so much like a Gold Spitz hen it took me over a week of separating hens one-at-a-time from the white-laying Spitz group to find her! This is the group where I put the younger roo from my 2023...

From the Spitz-hybrid 2023 breeding group above, I ended up with my best Spitz group yet. Here is my Spring 2024 Spitz breeding pen (all pure white layers)... The rooster carries 1 silver and 1 gold gene, which is perfect since I only want a few silver spangled hens to see if they can avoid...

It's been a while. Not sure if you're still active @Fancychickens_Norway, but Here is what my Spitz hybrid breeding pen looked like for Spring 2023.... The older rooster is a purebred Gold Spitz from Cackle Hatchery in 2020. The younger guy on the bale is a 3rd generation hybrid that includes...

This spring, I'm excited to experiment with a few new breeding groups. My 2021 experiments produced so many gorgeous and unique roosters that I've had trouble deciding which ones to give up. Before I let two of them go, I'm letting them produce my first round of fertile hatching eggs to sell...

Here is the formerly ugly, now quite pretty boy this morning..one of the most handsome in the flock. He's about 4.5 months old and is already too savvy for his own good (can't keep him contained anywhere he doesn't want to be) and treats the ladies like royalty...

Yes, I think you're right! My girls do this to me all the time. It's so hard to be patient when you're waiting for a new egg color :barnie .

Here is a photo of the little boy I kept (along with one of my Gold Spitz girls). He turned out gorgeous! This was about a month ago. I swear he's getting prettier by the day. Really smart too Here's one of my blue egger girls, of the same cross. I've gotten a few new blue eggs recently, but...

I have been playing around with Spitzhauben (D^V) hybrids. Crossing with Dominique and Hamburg rose comb hens, and Cream Legbar hybrids with single combs. Breeding tests have identified that some of my rose comb girls are Rr. I don't have any pea combs in the flock. Here's V + Single comb, from...

Well, the little weirdo turned out to be the first rooster I sold, out of 20+. Here is what he looks like at 7 weeks (the one standing). Pretty handsome! Going to a new flock next week... Here's how the little girl looks at 7 weeks Here's my only other little boy of the same cross, hatched a...

@Frazzemrat1 @LadiesAndJane Cockerel #4 crowed this morning Technically, it was a squeaky sound that was supposed to be a crow 🤣 So, I'm pretty confident I have at least 2 boys. I'll have to watch & see if my "girls" might just be late bloomers...

How's this? 🤣 😂 That's suspected Cockerel #2

Yeah, wishful thinking. This is why I like the hybrids. My pure Spitzes keep me guessing until they start crowing!

It’s impossible to see combs through their thick crests, and they are v-combs so they are relatively small anyway. That’s why I’m focused on wattles. The 2 possible pullets have no wattle at all yet

I know I need to be patient 😂🤣. Out of 80+ chicks, these are the only 4 who remain a mystery. All the others were sex linked our auto sexing. I think I’m also seeing the beginning of pointy saddle feathers in no. 2.

I think I have 2 pullets and 2 cockerels. What do you think? Here are a few bonus photos of 3 & 4, since they happened to pose together...

My little guy seems to be doing better. I've added cinnamon to several of the chick feeders for extra vitamin E, although I think he had already started to recover, based on nutrition from free ranging. These videos were taken a few days after the above photos. His neck is twisted to the right...