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white dot + diffused dorsal stripes = male.

This is what I was young to attach to your quote. Congratulations on your success!! It could be that opening it up would cause the thermostat to pump out extra heat to compensate - but all's well that ends well. 4 out of 4 is a great success rate.

Well there you go! - Once we were tracing down a study about the blue eggs of wild birds. It was actually the blue-footed booby. (cool name huh?) -- The researchers discovered that an increase of ingested carotenoids made the eggs bluer. Probably something that only scientific instruments...

hi Diane, Difficult as it may be to see, as I understand chicken eggshells-- your green eggs have to be blue inside. Yeah, I know, I wasn't there and you were -- and everyone on BYC wants to tell ya that you didn't see what you saw or you don't know what you actually know. However, and...

Maybe that one will lay the color you are looking for!

sorry for your disappointment. Do your chickens trace back to Rees imports? ETA - congrats on having them start to lay though. :O)

congratulations!!

Just had a hatch the other day -- and a chick was very successful coming out the wrong end...but what was strange is that the air cell was at the big end. LOL..... chicks can surprise you. Your eggs have a nice egg shape -- some of mine are totally oval and it is really difficult to tell...

Here is my view FWIW. Probably there are other factors than your incubator -- especially since it is working for you with other eggs. IMO -- perhaps the breeder that you got your CLs from has inbred stock -- meaning that brothers and sisters were paired with brothers and sisters and then those...

Beautiful !! Taking orders makes me soo nervous. LOL -- you set the eggs, you plan for them to pick up the chicks -- my person wanted to be here on hatch day -- arranged to be able to heat them in their car on the way home using a cigarette-ligheter plug in device to make a transportable...

Here's another thought... it would be a pain in the rear end if your incubator couldn't do it automatically, but my incubator instructions says that they found better hatch rates when there was a 'cool down period'. The objective is to simulate the hen as closely as possible. -- If my...

Don't know if this will help you. Lately, my hatches have been pretty good for all the eggs that make it to lockdown. I don't add water to the incubator until lockdown, now-a-days. Before, when I did egg-topsy it seemed that the chicks were too 'wet' that had died in the eggs. I set the...

Hi Amy. Cream Legbars have down variation - Here is a chick down photo from Punnett's day back in the day. Seeing the eye and noticing a slight lighter ring right next to the eye -- plus the fact tht the white head blotch goes outside the dorsal V makes me think "boy" on your chick. One...

Hi Amy, are you sure that they aren't both boys? look at the face of the one you think is female, and see if there is a very distinct V above the beak. .

Sometimes I think that crests have "target" painted on them....... I'll bet she will grow them back in your environment.

They always remind me of punk rockers when they are in the awkward stage.....

Congratulations, you got a very nice pair. Those white earlobes are admirable. The underside of her crest looks a bit unusual, do you think that some of her feathers are pulled out there? Nice chickens over all IMO.

Hopefully he just got it in the net -- when I catch mine in the net -- it always seems like their combs stick out the most -- so they probably get the most roughed up.

Hopefully that is it -- keep us updated. Good luck with it. another idea I think it also possibly could be a case of lower circulation which could come from a LOT of causes and could 'come and go' -- I have had some of mine with darker tips from time to time - that doesn't seem weather...

Very nice chicks. I'm curious if the female with the tiny white dot contained within her V will grow up to have stronger barring. It is one of my new theories. The result of stronger barring will show in the female's tail feathers when she is an adult IMO.