it is always nice when you are starting with a breed to get more girls in the beginning.Early on I was getting a lot of pullets. Twice I got 8 out of 12 in favor of the girls then 6 pullets out of 7. I went 3 hatches untill I got a cockerel from Hen "B". I started worring that they weren't breeding true, but they all grew up to be pullets. The cockerels caught up. My last three hatches was about 20 cockerels to 6 pullets.
You got really luck.
I also have the mini advance. I think you got lucky!I was surprised at the hatch rate I got since these were shipped from a few states away and took almost a week to get here. I think the incubator was key. my brinsea mini advance kept that temp steady even during repeated candling and apparently did an excellent job with the humidity as well. can't believe got so many girls!
Quote: Keep trying I've found my CLs the easiest to hatch of all the breeds I've hatched when they are my own. it seems that roos are quite common on the first hatches...kinda weird but as newbiechix can now attest you could end up with a clutch of girls next time...
I've had no luck on the shipped eggs. I saw the above mentioned auction and was tempted also but realized the seller is the same seller I tried on rarebreeds where she is pearlchicken and though some did develop early on they all ended up either quitting or the few that ended up in lockdown did not hatch or even pip. Cali is to far away for me and I'd love to try her Black Bresse that she has on auction now also. I thought the rooster color was pretty good but probably not true to life as it looks like the comb color is a bit washed out and that tends to mean the actual color is washed out and whitens the bird also but his wing shoulders are not heavily colored so he looks to be close to SOP - The other pictures are more typical. I had no luck what so ever - nothing hatched. Next year is my last year trying shipped eggs depending on outcome. The BCM's I tried last spring was a 50% hatch rate - my best so far. I'm doing Bresse (black and white) and Tolbunt Polish on pre-orders. If the results are the same then I'll only do live birds after that...enough money down the drain at that point.
Hatched out 6 Chocolate Bantam Orpingtons, turns out these first 2 batches of 3 each had a Legbar in the genetics for at least 5 it looks like...good grief. Not sure what i want to do with them now. They are cute but much noisier than when i hatch the CLs.
Good eye babymakes6, that could perhaps be the definition. He is a boy in that awkward stage, but that is something I haven't see before this.His coloring looks pretty good!
I finally saw a picture of a bird with "stiltiness!"
