Straub’s search for colored eggs

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She's pretty. Who's her mom?

Here is a picture of Cocoa the one I assume is the mother
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This is Cosmo another possibility
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I couldn’t get a picture of Storm today because she is under the coop hanging out in the shade. I’ll have to keep better records when I get around to breeding to a standard with the new White Bresse eggs in the incubator and Marans when I get around to getting better Marans
 
I did my final candling and removed the egg turner from the incubator last night. It was a couple days early but with my work schedule it was the easiest time for me. I have read that eggs don’t technically need turning after 14 days. I’ll wait to crank up the humidity. I found and removed 3 more unviable eggs. Currently have 29 eggs still going. 9 Bresse and 20 BYM. I expect to start hearing peeps about Wednesday and see chicks Thursday evening into Friday

I also purchased used a yardbird chicken plucker off facebook marketplace. It was a bit more than I wanted to spend but about 1/2 the cost of new so I went for it. I figured if I’m going to get serious about breeding a separate truly dual purpose flock I might as well have the tools to do it. Weather permitting I’ll probably test it out this week. I have 3 cockerels that are ready and maybe a few hens that need retiring.

I’m really not looking forward to the hens but I made a decision to breed for improvement and to be honest some of these girls aren’t really good enough to breed forward. I have considered trying to rehome them but the ones that need to go aren’t won’t make good layers for someone else.
 

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