The Legbar Thread!

[starlingdaly]

How do you tell if the embryo/chick has died before hatching? (other than a blood ring or an exploding egg) I'm new to this stuff.

As someone also said, candling is a great way if your flashlight is bright enough (try an LED).
Personally when we get to day 15 or so I can tell by the warmth of the egg. If I'm turning or candling, the dead eggs always cool off first and never feel as warm as the live eggs. You can tell by this earlier, but it's harder the earlier in incubation.

I found the full term quitters the other day when removing chicks when I saw no more pips. I candled after feeling the eggs and sure enough, no movement.
Of course I left them in there just in case, though I'vs never had a quitter hatch.

And.... It's a boy!!! My first ever Cream Legbar chick is a little guy! and I will take a picture when he's better fluffed out so I can take him out of the incubator.

No more pips and considering we're somewhere between day 22-23, I'm getting a little nervous about how the remaining eggs are doing. D:

 

[ChicKat]

I take lousy pictures? I posted pictures of my kids a couple days ago and didn't get any comments

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If normanack says they are beautiful, then they ARE.

I missed seeing them somehow. See.... people aren't as alert/bright as you are thinking they are....LOL

 

[starlingdaly]

OH NO! The electricity just went out!!!! (((((
I put blankets on the incubator and hatcher but of course am worried sick!!!!! Who knows how long it will be out!!

 

[ChicKat]

OH NO! The electricity just went out!!!!

(((((
I put blankets on the incubator and hatcher but of course am worried sick!!!!! Who knows how long it will be out!!

Good Luck. I hope it is back on before you know it.

 

[starlingdaly]

Good Luck.  I hope it is back on before you know it.  

Thank you! It is very strange as the weather is completely calm and pleasant... No wind of storms...
And it was on really weakly for a minute.... I turned off all the lights because the flickering was freaking me out.

I'm possibly going to have to "call in sick" for work today...

But I hope the really weak electricity managed to bring everything back up to temp. So far I do not hear any angry peeping!

 

[starlingdaly]

We are hanging out in the car with an electric blanket made for cars so the hatchlings get a little warm blanket nest and the eggs are wrapped up underneath them. Thermometer says 91.4F and rising.
I just hope I wasn't too late.

Pictures of little ones make everything better, though, right?

 

[Flaming Chicken]

They're beautiful!!!

Thanks.

 

[starlingdaly]

We are hanging out in the car with an electric blanket made for cars so the hatchlings get a little warm blanket nest and the eggs are wrapped up underneath them. Thermometer says 91.4F and rising.
I just hope I wasn't too late.

Pictures of little ones make everything better, though, right?

I did end up losing most of the I hatched eggs and only have one CL egg still showing signs of life.
But the hatchlings made it just find and are looking great.
By the way, the third picture has 2 BCMs in it as well.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

For those of you with unsuccessful hatches--  You know how an idea comes to you while you are doing something completely unrelated - because your subconscious mind goes through the file cabinets in your brain and mixes things together....


What if the Chilean hen that R.C.Punnett used passed along the lethal gene to some of her descendants??  We say the blue eggs came from that side of the family....  could some lines also have the Araucana lethal gene hidden in there.  

For those of you with too many males -- sorry -- Maybe next year will be the "Year of the Pullet."




For all of you with chicks.  Answer me this:  Why haven't you sent your "Cutest Cream Legbar Chick", or "Cutest Cream Legbar Family" to the Cream Legbar Club's Cutest Chick Contest?

The lethal gene in araucanas generally comes from mating 2 tufted birda. It acts like the creeper gene in Japanese bantams.

I have had great hatches so far, just too many boys. We tried the temp thing with no differences. We did have an incubator mishap thos week though, temp got to 103. I was sure they would all be dead, tbey are due this wednesday. Well at day 15 we had a sumatra hatch, then day 16 we had a couple legbars hatch. Then yesterday a few phoenix hatched, all the eggs still look alive which is a good thing!

Also, anyone remember the black chick with a white spot and stripes I hatched awhile back? Well, he looks blue barred ( like legbar rooster breast blue barring) but all over with no sign of color. I might keep him for a bit, he has fair type so far

 

[ChicKat]

I did end up losing most of the I hatched eggs and only have one CL egg still showing signs of life.

But the hatchlings made it just find and are looking great.
By the way, the third picture has 2 BCMs in it as well.

So sorry that the power failure came when it did. Glad that you have some hope for at least 1 CL.