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I have a Janoel 24 I quite like if you're on a budget. Also heard good things about the future right 360 and brinsea if you're up for spending a bit more.

If you only have the one incubator there's not much you can do as you'll need to go into lockdown on day 18 for your older eggs. If the younger ones are more than day 14 they shouldn't have too much trouble with not being turned. Its a pity about the high humidity but the older eggs might get...

Ok, so I've finally got around to posting an update. From my eggs I have two older boys who are over coloured, too much black on the breast, one younger boy who looks pretty good so far and a younger girl who is ok but again a bit over marked with a lot of black in the hackles. I am keeping one...

Mira is quite the handsome young gentleman I think 3/4 of my last hatch are cockerels too but they seem to be colouring up ok so far. Hatch day has started again including some eggs I got from another breeder. So far we have 5, but most look to be from the black hens she added to get pen to...

Yes mille fleur is still new so there s a way to go before it all gets set in stone. Congrats on your new hatches @Fluffer Butters it will be interesting to see how they grow out. The older two are certainly getting there with the colour, overmarked if anything which is a problem I have on some...

Finally update time for me! I set a dozen eggs earlier this month, unfortunately only 3 made it to lockdown and two of those hatched so we have some babies! I have some more under a broody hen at my aunt and uncles that should hatch in a couple of days too. I see the red in Miras comb, but it is...

Hi @jeberhard you're welcome to join other working on this project colour here https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/mille-fleur-bantam-cochin-spangled-pekin-project.1480257/ it's really hard to tell who will end up with the best colouring until they're a year or so old. I'd be inclined to...

Would you breed the other colours into your MF flock to improve type, or work on a few colours at once? In Australia, the best types I have seen have all been blacks, I think they've just had so much longer to work on shape. I would probably avoid using white in an MF program personally as it...

I don't know much about rooster bachelor flocks but this article came up today: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/rooster-flocks.72998/?utm_source=threadloom&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ed27&utm_content=iss135

It's amazing how much the mille fleurs change over time, its so great that you're documenting them. Yes, I know what you mean with a few different lines to start with it's going to take a while to get anything consistent happening, but I wanted to start this way so there's good genetic diversity...

Lovely photos! This bird (not mine) won best in show of our local agricultural show earlier in the year, so I guess this is what I'm aiming for- basically a nice round volleyball shape with a head. It's a long way off, but who knows in 10, 20, 30 years I might be getting close! In other news I...

Another thing you might want to try if you live rurally is a bachelor flock. If you house them separate to your hens usually a flock of roosters gets along quite well. You can often get them free/cheap, they're very beautiful and they certainly won't lay to many eggs!

Yes, a splash would need both parents to carry blue and it appears neither does. I can't help you as to what it is but i think @Amer is very good with genetics.

Something that goes broody a lot like silkies or bantam cochins.

Adding the blue will be a long process, as all the blues will be solid and just split MF. If you breed them back to MF you should get some blue MF, but you'll also get some missing genes so some will just be blue mottle with leakage and things like that ie a big mess. Would be interesting but...