Chicken Breed Focus - Sebright

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@GitaBooks I love seeing pictures of your birds! They are always fantastic!

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My little guy, Odysseus, is a great rooster to his ladies. His ladies are 4 Golden Laced Polish who have been together since hatching, I believe. The 5 of them are my "perfect" flock - they stick together & let me round them up so easily, even when he gets chippy & has a go at my legs. I'm so glad a Sebright was my introduction to chickens. :)
 
Thanks guys.
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Sebrights sure are full of personality. I have to admit, they make chicken keeping a lot more interesting and fun. One of my first chickens, Mr. Dottie (he was suppose to be a hen, hence the name), and he was a Silver Sebright. Wow, he was full of attitude and personality. His whole goal in life was to attack me if at all possible. But I still liked him.
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Can't help with the eggs. We went to a farm to buy some fertile marans eggs for DDs experiment & they happened to have Sebrights, Silkies, & Old English breeding pens. It was just dumb luck. Of course, DD thought those tiny chickens were adorable, so we ended up getting quite an assortment of hatching eggs.

However, we did discover that the tiny bantam eggs were more difficult to incubate using our traditional incubator, but our broody did very well with the ones given to her. The eggs were from the same source & started at the same time, so the incubation method was the only variable. We normally get 85-95% hatch rate from our incubator, so we were shocked to get only 70% hatch.
 
Faraday40 said:
Can't help with the eggs. We went to a farm to buy some fertile marans eggs for DDs experiment & they happened to have Sebrights, Silkies, & Old English breeding pens. It was just dumb luck. Of course, DD thought those tiny chickens were adorable, so we ended up getting quite an assortment of hatching eggs.

However, we did discover that the tiny bantam eggs were more difficult to incubate using our traditional incubator, but our broody did very well with the ones given to her. The eggs were from the same source & started at the same time, so the incubation method was the only variable. We normally get 85-95% hatch rate from our incubator, so we were shocked to get only 70% hatch.
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My goldens hatched very well in my Brinsea. I also had 4 silver eggs, but 3 were infertile, and the one that hatched turned out to be mixed. (little Modern game dude got ahold of her! lol)

I have a message out to the same seller, so hopefully her girls are laying again. It was a 6 hour drive for me (3 each way), so we will see! I'd love to have more OEGB's also!
 

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