I have my Silver Campine project just starting to roll. The first (2) pure SC eggs are cooking now and due on the 14th. There is another batch in the bator due a week later with more pure SCs and some 3/4 Campine experiments. I have a 1/2 Campine hen that is crossed with a white EE rooster. She is correct (although not perfect) in her eye color, leg color, earlobes, comb and has nice clean hackles. On the downside, she has white down to her mid body and her barring is all wrong. The reason I'm using her is because she has a nice flat back which my SCs need, badly. I plan to hatch from her this year, select the best three hens, and put them back to the dad. The resulting chicks from that mating will be 7/8 SC and if they show the correct coloring and the wide back, I'll have done something! If I get some squirrely results, I'll just stop using her.
I got a cabinet incubator for Christmas and have been hatching ever since! I have just about gotten the hatch-everything-laid phase out of the way and am concentrating on the ones I can use or sell.
I went to the Ohio Nationals back in November and picked up the SCs (from Urch) and a trio of Black Orpingtons on impulse. They are huge and the chicks are selling so well that I can't keep them. You should come see them!
I got a cabinet incubator for Christmas and have been hatching ever since! I have just about gotten the hatch-everything-laid phase out of the way and am concentrating on the ones I can use or sell.
I went to the Ohio Nationals back in November and picked up the SCs (from Urch) and a trio of Black Orpingtons on impulse. They are huge and the chicks are selling so well that I can't keep them. You should come see them!