Wow, it's been awhile since anyone has posted on this thread.
Okay...I'll get something going. I've got 3...count them 3....ladies brooding. I didn't set much last year (except for a sneak clutch that hatched during a heatwave...I've no idea how the hen did it as we were 108degrees...she kept them all alive).
Barred Broody, Bar (don't laugh, I've had too many chickens over the years and not enough names anymore, and can't tell birds apart in my identical mothers/daughters LOL): Due tomorrow April 18, 10 eggs...8 of which are my aging 5 year old Cream Legbar (Creme, pronounced like the french creme), bred back to her grandson to get 3/4 to 7/8 Cream Legbars to keep my tourquoise egg line going since her daughters got taken by hawks/coons this winter. Bar also has 3 of my dark brown eggs...taken from....
Brownie, from my Barnevelder line, who started the brown eggs, but quit, so I moved them to Bar. But..then Brownie got serious about setting, so she has another 4 of darker brown eggs (think clay pot), due in a week.
Then my Cochin-Barnie mix, Cochine, went broody, and what the heck, I set 1 more blue, 1 more brown, and 6 olive eggs, due in two weeks.
So that's 18?
I have 16 chickens....I have room for another 6 to 8 hens after several aged hens passed and predator loss. So here's the math, 18 eggs with 75% hatch rate (pretty average as some not fertile...but I must admit I get closer to 80 to 90%)...so 12 hatch....50% hens....I should get those 6 to 8 hens right?
Hubby is laughing telling me I'll get 18 roosters. Could with the Creme....she's given me solid roosters from her hatches the last 3...count them...3 times.
Keeping my fingers crossed for Cream Legbar and Barnie hens. I need more tourquoise and clay pot eggs.

LofMc