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happyhens1972

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Hi there, I was a member here a couple of years back but then we moved area, I had to leave my chooks behind and I've been itching to get more ever since.

This morning, I set 15 Cream Crested Legbar eggs and now the obsession will begin!!

Great to be back folks and great to be chickening again xxx
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Awww, thanks Pjacct. I have had near 100% success with this incy in the past, both with chicken and quail, so I am very hopeful of good results. The lady I got the eggs from gave me extras for free though as she said she'd had high fertility but only 50% hatch rate. I'm hoping that her issues were down to her incy....she said it was old and had poor humidity control...and not her egg quality. She has CCL and Silkie and shows them both so I am assuming she has good stock birds. They certainly LOOKED beautiful to my less experienced eye and she'd got some day old chicks that looked very lively and vigorous......so fingers crossed, eh?

Now.....two hours down, only another 502 to go!!!!!
 
Here’s to your incubator and fingers crossed.
Have been fascinated with CCL and the ability to auto-sex (though this isn’t accurate now I’ve heard /read due to not being specifically bred for this trait?) and also for their eggs.
I also really like the colour combination of the feathers, just gorgeous and the roosters look fabulous! Alas, I think if I were to get more my husband would kill me and we can’t have roosters.
 
It is that auto-sexing aspect that made me decide on these. The day olds that the breeder had were very well marked and very obvious as to gender so I am hoping mine will be just as easy to tell apart. I am also buying some 'ready made' pullets....brahmas, cochins and orpingtons....but didn't want the stress or short term overcrowding that comes with hatching enough eggs to get those pullets and then dealing with the inevitable roos, weeks down the line when you've loved and cared for them. I have done that in the past but had a lot more room to do it and after being forced to cull five stunning, five month old boys that I couldn't home, swore I'd never do it again. I get very attached to my birds, very quickly. They are pets for me, much loved ones, nothing more or less (I don't even eat eggs!!) so killing those boys broke my heart. I realise I will have to do exactly the same with any of these CCL that hatch as roos but it is so much easier to do that on day one, before you get truly attached and while the actual 'doing' bit is so quick and simple.
 

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