Hiya Pete, I thought you'd find the chat amusing from last night... we were busy bees! Glad to see the color chart. Celtic, Marty & I will all set our new toulouse eggs together and hopefully compare notes on the colors that hatch out.
As for the dewlap eggs, I talked to the lady I got my last set of ancona eggs from. She said her pair have just started laying, but fertility tests are not consistent enough to offer eggs for sale yet. But, she said she would email me when they were fertile and will sell me a few then. Her breeding pair are show quality birds, purchased as goslings last year from Holderread, so I am sure the goslings from her pair will be beautiful. Since I just bought these new toulouse eggs... I am set until I hear from her (although hubby keeps going on and on about how bad he wants a dewlap).
Regarding my set of goosies currently in bator... as of this morning (day 6), I have 6 out of 10 with spiders... and expect another 2-3 to show spiders by tomorrow. I think I will get 80% fertility, which I am super happy with!!
ETA: And stop showing pics of your birds...I'm getting tired of cleaning up drool off my keyboard.