The eggs from Buck's pen are similarly from a Splash male over Black females, so it'll be interesting to see the shades of Blue that come from that. I primarily chose to go that route because I'm suspicious of some of those girls being dark Blue, so if any chicks hatch out Splash instead of just Blue, then I'll both know that that is the case and be able to cull out dark blue genes that way by not keeping any resulting Splash offspring. 
Yeah, Buck is probably not what I'd categorize as sweet, he's a bit brash if anything, but he does make sure the girls know any time there's a goodie in the pen, even if it's just some pellets that spilled out of their feeder. 
The important part to me is that he's not overly rough with them, nor is he aggressive toward me (though he has had a couple moments where I wondered if he was going to be!).
All I know is that Amaretto was not a good broody, so she's not going to be trusted with eggs again, and if I don't bust Gwenyth as soon as possible then I likely won't be able to hatch from her this year.
Yeah after my test hatching for Halloween in the 56ex I'm pretty sure on settings.Oof, yeah, probably safer to wait for the incubator you know is running properly, then.
That's sweet that she wanted to make sure you were fed, too! 
