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excellent news! took a photo yesterday of my best-looking cockerel (of four, more than i need, but...) and his two girlfriends -- looking forward to hatching eggs from this trio this spring!

yay, glad to know our rooster swap has helped your hatching troubles! i haven't tried to hatch anything since our swap, but will probably be doing so soon enough this spring...

no trouble! easy enough to clarify my thoughts.

sorry, i mis-typed -- this is one egg i'm hoping to hatch from a cross between a marans/isbar cross (i.e. an olive-egger) and an isbar rooster -- so the chick will be 3/4 isbar, 1/4 marans. since the hen looks so much like an isobar, i'm curious to see whether marans-like characteristics pop up...

thank you for the thoughts -- very similar to my own, which is why i'm only tentatively hatching ONE egg from the marans/isbar cross, to see what the result might look like. and I have mixed feelings about genetic diversity vs. not being entirely excited about the look of the second line...

just catching up on this thread after about a month away (although keeping track of the isbars group on Facebook!) -- and just wanted to chime and say thanks for the info on small clan breeding. I have a blue original line rooster from one person's flock, up in the sierra foothills, and two...

as requested, here are some egg pictures: campine on the left, then pure isbar, then the 3/4 isbar-1/4 marans pullet's egg, then a birchen marans. unfortunately my 1/2 isbar-1/2 marans hen (the pullet's mom) hasn't restarted laying yet, but here's a picture with one of her eggs from last...

hello all, and happy new year!! i haven't been on this site at all since October, life simply got too busy to keep up, BUT I'm happy to report that my 1/4 marans, 3/4 isbar pullet has just started laying, finally, and indeed they are a medium avocado green! i'll try to remember to take a photo...

and for the record, i actually didn't "make" my isbar/marans crosses, i got them from someone else as chicks. was definitely curious to see what the egg color was like! it's a very true OLIVE -- I actually prefer the lighter, more minty or pastel greens. AND, i currently have one pullet...

I have one girl who is an isbar x marans (used to have her sister as well), and she lays a VERY olive-colored egg -- kind of a grayish green, sometimes speckled, sometimes not. her egg is second from the right in the top row

hello everyone -- i've been too busy to be on BYC much lately, but dropping in to say hi! of my pure isbar pullets, only two are laying so far (two more to go) -- one minty green, one peach-colored. needless to say i won't be hatching the peach colored eggs, but she's a sweet girl. and i...

this one is definitely not chipmunk-y, but very dark -- looks mostly like an isbar chick, so far, other than the wisp on the head. i similarly have a blue isbar roo over a CL pullet, so it will be interesting to compare these chicks as they grow!

so, do the boys show a head spot like CL boys do? this chick is either a very dark blue or black, and has a wisp of of a spot on its head, but only very small...

i'm afraid i didn't weigh them, just popped them in -- i had three broody hens that kept having trouble actually hatching their eggs, so got the incubator fired up -- of course, three weeks later, two are co-raising some chicks that one of them hatched and the third seems to have broken out of...

fabulous color!! congratulations! i have three isbar eggs in the incubator that should be hatching today or tomorrow, if they are successful -- plus one "ice cream bar" (isbar x cream legbar) who has already hatched!

I have had trouble hatching isbars successfully (all from shipped eggs), only a very small proportion hatch -- but i've had similar problems with shipped eggs of other breeds. and the chicks that DO hatch have all been perfectly healthy, with one exception of a very small-sized black one that...

I should have reported it, but didn't think to at the time -- if it happens again, i definitely will! and couldn't agree more about the gorgeous color of Dana's eggs -- I've got one 4-month old splash pullet that hatched last fall, can't wait til she starts laying -- and three more chicks...

you know, i think the fault may lie specifically with Dana's local post office, as the first time she shipped eggs to me, she sent them 2-day priority but i recall they took 3 or 4 days to arrive. definitely seems to be a pattern. thankfully the second box i got from her more recently arrived...

hoooray, congratulations! i have 16 isbar eggs in the incubator right now, should be hatching (*fingers crossed*) a week from tomorrow...

they look so gorgeous! how old is your rooster? (i ask, as i have one who's about 8 months old and doesn't quite as developed as yours...)