Okay thank you. For incubation I use a small container with a hole in the lid and it bumps the humidity up above 30%. The incubator dry hovers at 27%. Since I am incubating other eggs at the same time, I felt SOME humidity was better than none. I'm separating the egg types for hatching so the low humidity will be fine. Thank you!
others can chime in because I may be completely wrong but I believe mottling is recessive so if only one parent is mottled, then there shouldn't be any mottled babies.Hi Everyone, Back in my March test hatch, I had one chick that hatched out with suspicious striping on the back and there was a brief discussion on the thread about whether some Cream Legbar influence might be the culprit. I've since determined that all of my Legbars definitely lay blue eggs and that the EEs in the pen at the time also lay blue-green eggs. A Swede was definitely the mom, then, but there was still the possibility of my CL cockerel being the father. Here are some pictures from along the way, the most recent having been taken today. Please let me know what you think. Chick in question is in upper right corner, down one from the top.Close-up of the back:
Here is a top shot around 2 weeks
And a side view of the same age
Here is one from today.
Would a SFH/CL cross show the mottling like this?
This doesn't look like typical striping on the back to me. Many of my SFH hatch with a patchwork coloring of the down, like the one all the way to the left in your pic.Close-up of the back:
it looks like a SFH to me. You might listen to what others have to say, they have more experience but I don't see anything off as far as it still being young.Do these help?
Do these help?
