We put 20 eggs in our incubator, 17 of which hatched. Of those that hatched, 12 are CCL, the other 5 are either a CCL (Roo) x Silver Laced Wyandotte or Swedish Flower cross. Dummy me thought that I would be able to tell the CCLs easily from the others, but I was mistaken! Here are some pics...
My wife and I have backyard chickens, one CCL roo, five CCL hens, a Swedish Flower, and two Silver Laced Wyandottes. My cousin breeds chickens in Texas, specifically Legbars, Swedish Flowers, Bielefelder, Isbar, among others. Since we have the one roo, we are getting crossbreeds with the...