Cream Legbars

[HaplessRunner]

Failure in incubation can be a good thing. If the chick fails to develop properly, then mother nature keeps the issue from coming to fruition. As long as you have observed good incubation protocol, other than disappointment, there is nothing to feel bad about. Recently, I purchased 12 CLB hatching eggs from Texas. The PO succeeded in scrambling them beyond belief. 10/12 broken air sacks. 6/12 failed to develop, 4/12 developed blood rings, 1/12 was a late quitter, and 1/12 actually hatched. resulting in a pretty little pullet, who will be henceforth known as "Tex". And yes, I was very disappointed but there was nothing that I could have done to have improved the outcome. The eggs were rested for four days during incubation before the turner was activated.

I candle my incubating eggs on the 7, 14, 18 day intervals regularly. I may also candle extra times if I want to make sure things are progressing, especially if there is an egg that is overdue to hatch. The candling can confirm everything is OK or identify a chick that may need some help, or identify a late quitter.

Candling does not harm the chick. If you use a high intensity LED flashlight for candling, then you do not have to worry about heat being applied to the egg as you would from an incandescent bulb. I find that the really high intensity LEDs flashlights let me see into darker eggs than would have been possible otherwise.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

X2 candling won't harm the eggs. Sorry you lost some though. Remember even a momma hen gets off the nest once or twice a day for up to 20 minutes at a time and most of her eggs hatch without a high tech incubator or candler or turner.

 

[ChicKat]

Heard an "odd fact" though that the mother-hen turns eggs about 50-times per day.

 

[dretd]

Heard an "odd fact" though that the mother-hen turns eggs about 50-times per day.

I can see it now, some poor grad student sitting there counting the turns...

When my first hen went broody several years ago I was really surprised when I checked on her eggs by placing my hand under her. She was putting her weight on one leg and stirring the eggs with the other. After awhile, she would shift sides. From the top she looked like she was just pancaked there, so I have to wonder if this is 'common good practice' with a broody?

 

[Rancher3535]

Love pictures of our birds but you cannot always tell what they are really like unless you see them moving around. So I just put four really short videos of my males on my face book page. I would love it if people would drop in and give a comment as to which they like. I am just about to change out males.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rockin-R-Ranch/539810502704477?ref=hl

Thanks
Rob

 

[enola]

I can see their pictures but the video won't work for me

 

[sol2go]

ChicKat and dretd -
more good data
I wondered if they actually "sit" on the eggs
there is a lot more work going on than meets the eye

 

[chicken pickin]

I can see their pictures but the video won't work for me

same here I tried to view them but it wont seem to work.

 

[wildhorseannie]

Hello CLB lovers!
I am thinking about getting this breed and would like to hear from you what you like about these birds and even what you don't like.
Many thanks!

M

 

[KPenley]

Hello CLB lovers!
I am thinking about getting this breed and would like to hear from you what you like about these birds and even what you don't like.
Many thanks!

M

My Cream Legbars are very friendly, great foragers and excellent layers and mothers. They also lay blue eggs which is my particular favorite feature, but the most useful is autosexing. Being able to tell the difference at hatch is awesome! Two things I don't 'like so much...sometimes you get a people agressive rooster, which I don't keep in my program, and the rooster straight combs don't all fare well in freezing temps if they don't tuck their heads at night.