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 make the other color pop out a bit more. To complicate my search more, I also want my flock to be varied in color and breed to be estheticly pleasing...yes, I realize I'm a bit obsessed and crazy. So basically I want every hen to be a different color or patern and for each of them to lay a different colored egg lol. This all led me to my problem...I didn't find many of the white egg layers very appealing. That's when I came across a forum on here about the Isabelle leghorns and I was hooked! White eggs, beautiful color and the cherry on top for me was that they were super rare and new. I mean, who doesn't wanna be the first kid on the block with the fancy new chicken?? ...I warned y'all, I'm obsessed. If I can't speak freely on here about it, then where can I?! I might need chicken addicts anonymous. Anyways, as it turned out, the breeder that was working on this breeding program was only an hour away from me!! Three weeks ago I was able to drive down to Backwoods Poultry Farm and pick up the eggs I've been emailing about since last year. It was better than Christmas for me. I was able to see his whole breeding program and talk about the genetics of it all. Jump forward three weeks and now I'm thrilled to say I had 100% hatch rate I'm sure due to me being able to avoid shipping and I wanted to share them with everybody. I hatched using a Brinsea mini advance. It only holds 7 eggs in its auto turner so I ended up with 6 Isabelle colored chicks and one brown split.
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I agree they are beautiful birds!
