Has anyone tried the Little Giant Incubators?

[Shamo Hybrid]

I got my breeding stock of them a year ago, and was told that they had hatched out in Feb. I wanted white Naked Necks, so the one that I had bought my starter's from added some White Breese hen's to the Naked Neck rooster's pen. So, my adults that I have now are already mixed that way. The egg's I'm hatching now are their's. The rooster in my avatar is one of those that I bought from her. He is the best rooster that I have had! You can also see in my avatar one of the girl's that is white and a few scattered black feathering. The picture was taken last year. Yes, I hatched a couple of eggs from Charley over that Crested Cream Legbar hen that lay's blue eggs too, and her daughter's are now laying green colored eggs.

How about some Ganoi chickens? The naked neck Oriental Gamefowl?! Woo-hoo!!

 

[BlueBaby]

Neat! He's quite a striking boy - like a naked neck Bresse!

I'm a big fan of Bresse crosses...I started a group with shipped eggs and had a mediocre hatch, which didn't really raise any red flags, but had really poor hatches from the grown-out adults, including some where no eggs hatched (no incubation issues, either).

When I crossed the Bresse with FBCM, the hatch rates went back to what I'd expect (high), so I think there was a genetic issue at work - probably lack of diversity in the pure Bresse gene pool.

You must have a very colorful egg basket!

I think that you are right about their lack of diversity in the gene pool. I think that I read one time before that some hatchery had them, but stopped doing them. Maybe they wanted too much money for them, so not many wanted to buy them?

The mixed one's that I have now, I really like. They lay large light tinted colored egg's, and each hen only has been taking one day off a week. The plus side for me is that they handle this hot desert heat better than the other fluffier breed's.

 

[BlueBaby]

How about some Ganoi chickens? The naked neck Oriental Gamefowl?! Woo-hoo!!

I'll let you work with those one's.