Okay, this is pen Gold-A
They were hard to capture together. Macduff is just a smidgen less cream than Macduff but hard to discen. His tail is more squirrel. He has a crest with a nice comb. His hens are 2 gold and 2 cream. The gold hens lay my largest eggs. My original GFF girl's eggs are jumbo so I'm going to try very hard to keep her genes in the pool as her daughter lays a comparable one also.
and this is going to be pen New-B. Macbeth has a better tail angle and a crest but just a slight twist in the comb at the rear but he is all cream. His girls are all cream. The Jubilee pullet is in there until she's big enough to go into the Jubilee pen. That boy is huge so don't want to risk her yet plus she and the new line pullet were shipped together from GFF and i don't have the heart to separate them yet.
and some chick pics - hard to believe I culled so many chicks in all of this. Some of the girls are true cream and others are more tinted. There are 4 boys and 1 white female legbar and a Jubilee chick (male I believe) in there also.
So I'm going to start incubating the 2 pens in about a month and see what the differences are. Looking forward to seeing how the boys turn out. I'd like to eventually have 3 or 4 different pens if possible. I have 2 more batches of chicks in 2 other brooders and a batch going into lockdown today. I'm not really that good at hatching yet. I just cannot seem to get the humidity thing down but I've decided to not help any out this hatch no matter what. Just so glad to have everyone back on line and ready to get back to working on making better legbars.
They were hard to capture together. Macduff is just a smidgen less cream than Macduff but hard to discen. His tail is more squirrel. He has a crest with a nice comb. His hens are 2 gold and 2 cream. The gold hens lay my largest eggs. My original GFF girl's eggs are jumbo so I'm going to try very hard to keep her genes in the pool as her daughter lays a comparable one also.
and this is going to be pen New-B. Macbeth has a better tail angle and a crest but just a slight twist in the comb at the rear but he is all cream. His girls are all cream. The Jubilee pullet is in there until she's big enough to go into the Jubilee pen. That boy is huge so don't want to risk her yet plus she and the new line pullet were shipped together from GFF and i don't have the heart to separate them yet.
and some chick pics - hard to believe I culled so many chicks in all of this. Some of the girls are true cream and others are more tinted. There are 4 boys and 1 white female legbar and a Jubilee chick (male I believe) in there also.
So I'm going to start incubating the 2 pens in about a month and see what the differences are. Looking forward to seeing how the boys turn out. I'd like to eventually have 3 or 4 different pens if possible. I have 2 more batches of chicks in 2 other brooders and a batch going into lockdown today. I'm not really that good at hatching yet. I just cannot seem to get the humidity thing down but I've decided to not help any out this hatch no matter what. Just so glad to have everyone back on line and ready to get back to working on making better legbars.
