I provided a bit more shade this summer with tarps and that left them less bleached out but between playing in the yard and swimming and causing chaos they still got bleached. It is in a red brown that i noticed gets bleached out in almost all the animals i have seen it in, (ie dogs, cats...
I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but my porcelain boys seem to be all very sweet but my blue pear boys tend to have an attitude about them. The girls are about the same but the girls are nicer just mouthy little things that like to be demanding about things like meal worms and...
He looks pretty good. He has a nice neck ring. His head is solid too. Hard to tell how the patterned looks on his back with the light and having likely bleached out the feathers some. But he looks like a very nice boy The fact that is he is really sweet helps too!
They are so nice. I have three calls to widen the gene pool. I have one grey, blue fawn and pastel so they should be nice producers when I finally get them to be fertilized for the eggs.
From my experience it can be between 24-28 days. It seems to depend on size of egg. I have had some hatch out on day 24 and had others hatch on day 28.
My batch that I just set had one egg pip on day 24 (yesterday) but the others look like they are just ready to go into lockdown.
My girls will only lay in smaller tight spaces. I have to have two different types of boxes for them. We keep playing Easter egg hunts in the morning because they were hiding their eggs in any nook or cranny they could find.
You would get a scale that reads in grams. Most digital kitchen scales do. Then number and weigh each egg. Record it. Then weekly you would re-weigh each egg looking to see if it lost the percentage needed to hit the idea weight to lose by lock down day.
I can’t remember what that percentage is...