Cream Legbars

[nicalandia]

So I am going to take an unusual step this month. I am only going to breed from one Cream Legbar pair.

I Really like thi Male, his secondaires look just like the SOP calls for it, from SOP: secondaries dark grey more clearly marked; basically the SOP calls for a Barred Birchen(crow wing) male like the Golden Cuckoo Maran

you dont see this often, here check thes males, Source: http://motherhensgardenkitchenandcoop.blogspot.com/

 

[KPenley]

   Any reasons CL's can be harder to hatch?  Anything you can do to help the hatch rate?  Any special temp or humidity that could help?

In general I think all shipped eggs are hard to hatch. I get great results incubating dry then raising humidity to 45 for hatching. It depends on where you live though too. At 65, my chicks drown. At 25-30 during hatch many shrink wrap. I get 5/6 or 6/6 to hatch of my own birds' eggs, and around 50% from shipped eggs now, but I lost a ton of eggs figuring out what worked for us.

 

[flowerfaeiry]

Any reasons CL's can be harder to hatch? Anything you can do to help the hatch rate? Any special temp or humidity that could help?

In general I think all shipped eggs are hard to hatch. I get great results incubating dry then raising humidity to 45 for hatching. It depends on where you live though too. At 65, my chicks drown. At 25-30 during hatch many shrink wrap. I get 5/6 or 6/6 to hatch of my own birds' eggs, and around 50% from shipped eggs now, but I lost a ton of eggs figuring out what worked for us.

I set 12 eggs shipped from Oregon to PA so they had quite a plane ride, but other eggs shipped at the same time far less distance tho, but lost in the mail for a week during the sub zero weather, and I got 90% hatch from those. They were brown leghorns, a very durable breed. I was very disappointed in the CL hatch. Same incubator, same temps & humidity, although the humidity was a bit high, around 45 throughout, 70 at hatch.


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[nicalandia]

I Really like thi Male, his secondaires look just like the SOP calls for it, from SOP: secondaries dark grey more clearly marked; basically the SOP calls for a Barred Birchen(crow wing) male like the Golden Cuckoo Maran

you dont see this often, here check thes males, Source: http://motherhensgardenkitchenandcoop.blogspot.com/

for example, a "Golden" Cuckoo Maran rooster with grey barring on secondaries(because he is Birchen)

 

[KPenley]

I set 12 eggs shipped from Oregon to PA so they had quite a plane ride, but other eggs shipped at the same time far less distance tho, but lost in the mail for a week during the sub zero weather, and I got 90% hatch from those. They were brown leghorns, a very durable breed. I was very disappointed in the CL hatch. Same incubator, same temps & humidity, although the humidity was a bit high, around 45 throughout, 70 at hatch.


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Wow, that's impressive! My best shipped eggs hatch was also during a snow storm, when our eggs were delayed 3 days. I hatched 10/16 eggs, though only 11 were alive and developed at lockdown.

 

[nicalandia]

Wow, that's impressive! My best shipped eggs hatch was also during a snow storm, when our eggs were delayed 3 days. I hatched 10/16 eggs, though only 11 were alive and developed at lockdown.

hatching eggs do better with lower temperatures than too much heat

 

[blackbirds13]

I have terrible luck with hatching shipped eggs but since I started letting them sit upright for 24 hours and then not turning for the first 3 days of incubation my hatch rate has gone up tremendously.

 

[dekel18042]

Uh, oh, following manufacturer's instructions I was keeping humidity between 40-50% for incubation and raised it to 60-70% for hatching (Was difficult keeping it that high over winter.)
Right now I'm on day 7 with the cream legbar eggs and the humidity is 45%. Do you think I should lower it then raise it to where it is now 45% for hatching?
Last hatch (not cream legbars) all hatched with the exception of one that pipped but didn't zip and never got out of the shell. He was the last one and I think he shrink wrapped. Unfortunetly the pip was on the bottom and I didn't notice it until too late so either he pipped in the wrong spot or some who had already hatched rolled the egg.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Uh, oh, following manufacturer's instructions I was keeping humidity between 40-50% for incubation and raised it to 60-70% for hatching (Was difficult keeping it that high over winter.)
Right now I'm on day 7 with the cream legbar eggs and the humidity is 45%. Do you think I should lower it then raise it to where it is now 45% for hatching?
Last hatch (not cream legbars) all hatched with the exception of one that pipped but didn't zip and never got out of the shell. He was the last one and I think he shrink wrapped. Unfortunetly the pip was on the bottom and I didn't notice it until too late so either he pipped in the wrong spot or some who had already hatched rolled the egg.

Incubation humidity depends A LOT on your local conditions. But less water until lockdown is generally safer than too much water. Rather than dwelling on a % I keep an eye on the air cells. I know what size they start at, and I candle at day 10 and at day 18. By the time they hatch on day 21 they need roughly 1/3 of the egg space as air cell. At day 18 I fill the water well and add sponges because they do need 50-60% humidity during hatch. Also if you fill your water wells on day 18 and do not open your incubator until 24 hours after hatch time you will not "shrink wrap" any chicks (with MOST incubators). I hear some brands of incubators have a terrible tendency to shrink wrap chicks even if you do everything right.

 

[flowerfaeiry]

I let the shipped eggs sit also, and don't turn for 3 days, it certainly gives a much better hatch rate. The detached air cells will usually stabilize. Lower humidity on the shipped eggs helps too. My last hatch I had 4 pip at the wrong end but hatched fine unassisted. I have heard that the CL In general have a poor hatch rate, but 1/10 is worse than poor.
You really need to base the humidity on the egg weight or air cell size.


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