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Nice eggs! We are on day 18 and hope that we get some Welsummer chicks and Cuckoo Marans chicks to hatch out this time - last incubation we had thermostat issues and lost the whole group. Our main incubator is still having problems so we are incubating in our back up one, trying to figure out...

very nice, we get a mix of speckles on our Welsummer eggs too!

I hear you on this, our kids are 12, 10 and 7 and to us it's not worth them or us getting hurt to keep a bad rooster around. My oldest has gotten very good a handleing the chickens we have but the younger two are still learning. If fact our youngest son(7) is asking for the modern game bantams...

I agree with this, it makes it so much easier to deal with them. Our cuckoo rooster is very well behaved and my kids can pick him up if needed!

we have 1 blue copper marans hen who lays probably 4-5 days out of a week.

Here is a picture of our dark egg layers, from left to right 2 Blue Copper Marans, 5 Welsummer, 2 Cuckoo Marans

I am still reading to get to the most recent posts-very good information We have Cuckoo Marans, Blue Copper Marans and Welsummer chickens, we keep the cuckoo's housed separately from the other 2 otherwise we wouldn't be able to tell the Wellie eggs from the cuckoo eggs. I'll have to see...