after losing some elderly hens this spring i'd like to incubate some of my flock's eggs to bring my numbers back up.
i'm really hoping to hatch one of my ancona hen's eggs because it's so hard to find pictures of ancona crosses.
here's a photo of annie the ancona, & one of my mystery mixed...
For a while now I have had two Chinese painted (CP) quail (assumed a pair) living with my Japanese Coturnix (JC) hens. Surprisingly, the CP roo has not once mated with his CP hen. Instead, he took a fancy to my JC hens.
At first it was a futile attempt, he would climb on their necks and sit...