Cream Legbars

[SlipsWife]

Congrats! This one is especially charming, I love her inquisitive cocked head. Looks like Curtis set you up with some really pretty pullets and I will look forward to seeing you post as they mature!

Thank you, she's ones of my favorites too! I can't get over how friendly they are and calm, even in their new surroundings. We have 2 hens that we got as chicks last year (both bantams) that aren't as calm as the new group. We had originally plan to keep them in a separate area to quarantine them but it didn't work out as planned...that being said, they have fit right in, immediately, with our original group of 6 standard hens, 2 bantam hens and currently 15 six week old chicks and 4 ducks. They got to free range for a few hours today and we had no issues. I had it all planned out, a couple of weeks in their own pen with their own coop, then slowly start letting them free range, then free range with the group, then add them to the coop at night when the others were sleeping... What we didn't count on was the rooster wanting to impress our hens so much that he was jumping up in the pen and hitting the sun shade and we were afraid he would be injured.

Extra bonus! How can there be an extra bonus you ask? Everything went so amazingly well that there's something else?! We got an egg!!! Plus, she laid in the nesting box of the coop we had put them in last night. Perfect! Then, one of the other girls went into the nesting box our original girls are using twice today, though she didn't lay. I'm taking it as a good sign that she's close or at least wants to!

 

[enola]

They are very pretty!

 

[jkmattena]

Here's one of our day old cream Legbar chicks. Adorable

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[HaplessRunner]

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?

I use the dry hatching technique that is noted here on BYC learning center. No water added until lock down. Once you get to lock down, I up the humidity to 55-65%. I had 6/6 hatch that went into lock down. so I was pretty happy.

I also use egg cartons with the bottoms cut out to hatch the eggs in for two reasons. First, I can be reasonably assured that they will pip into the air space. And, second, it keeps early hatch\ling from playing soccer with the yet unhatched eggs.

 

[HaplessRunner]

If anyone is interested, I have an auction for cream legbar hatching eggs on the 24 Hour Auction thread.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/754060/the-new-crazy-24hr-auction-thread/6420#post_13096512

 

[Ashdoes]

It's the morning of day 21 and I have four pips....only ten more to go. Thank goodness I have stuff to do today, or I'd sit here watching all day.

 

[chicken pickin]

It's the morning of day 21 and I have four pips....only ten more to go. Thank goodness I have stuff to do today, or I'd sit here watching all day.

Very exciting! I cant wait to see chick pics.

 

[Ashdoes]

Our first Baby is out!

Even though we watched it most of the day, it's still very exciting having It out. Pretty sure it's a girl, waiting till it's dry to be sure. Yay!

 

[enola]

What do you have your eggs sitting in?

 

[Ashdoes]

What do you have your eggs sitting in?

Last month one of our Silkie eggs was hatching, and another chick rolled it and drowned the poor thing. So I was on the hatching thread and someone had these rings, two or three inch pipe, cut about 3/4 inch high. Keeps the other babies from rolling them. They're actually working very well, keeping the eggs pointing up, but the chick made it out just fine.