The Legbar Thread!

[ChicKat]

On the topic of hatching these CCLs... I got 18 (I think) pullet eggs shipped from a fellow BYCer (THANK YOU!!).

15 hatched yesterday

Amazing robust little guys.

Only.... looks like 10 are boys, 4 are girls and one looks girl but has a big old white head blob.

Love the autosexing but seriously, seriously 10/11 out of 15 boys??????

Yep, big white head blob....sounds like a boy. So 11/15 boys.... You will (maybe) have 11/15 girls next time to make things even. Congrats on the hatch..it must be exciting around there.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Yep, big white head blob....sounds like a boy. So 11/15 boys.... You will (maybe) have 11/15 girls next time to make things even. Congrats on the hatch..it must be exciting around there.

You can get alot of hatching eggs from 4 hens

 

[Zgoatlady]

So Im trying another hatch

I got 7 eggs and 5 look to be good. Today is day 18 so now I need to keep myself busy for the next few days to see what happens.

 

[GaryDean26]

This is great GaryDean.... I have been thinking that I should keep hatch-rate stats.

Questions for clarification to my uninitiated brain:
'Clear' - means when you first candle you see no veining thus conclude that the egg was infertile,
'early quitters' - means a blood ring, and
'late quitters' -> Didn't successfully hatch. Is that the best way to categorize??


So my first hatch of CL I set 7, and one was blood ring when I first candled. The other 6 successfully hatch.

From that small sample I say 7/7 fertile, 1/7 early quitter and 6/7 hatched. So my hatch rate is...85.71% on sample size of 7 (below the level of statistical significance in the world of chicken eggs I bet.)--- but I have the process correct? Hoping I am understanding it.

We should have a registry where people could fill in the pedegree of their birds, The egg color on the color chart, hatch rate, weight -- (I'm too much into the registered cattle and EPD's -- better just back off here....but it would be an interesting thing.)

What if we made a page here somewhere on BYC... pictures of the parents, color of egg from the egg color chart.........hatch rate - and sample size --because that would be a factor...etc. -- Just blanks that people could fill in - date and post....then change as the numbers changed. Too crazy??. I think I just had too much espresso. g'nite.

It would be really neat to have a registry. It sounds like a lot of work though. I don't think that we would get a lot of peole to put the time into a registry. Farm records are propablly still the best way to go. If you put up a page other could track the same information to make our farm records more unitform. (i.e. Weeks to first egg, egg weight, annual production, etc. are things others might track).

I usually don't candle until day 18, so yes clear eggs are eggs that never started. Either from not being fertile or the embryo dying during shipping or other egg handling prior to incubation. Yes, the red ring are the early quitters and yes the developed embryos that die later on are the late quitters.

 

[redchicken9]

Hi all I finally hatched my first ever Cream Legbars! On a whim I ordered just three eggs off of ebay, never thinking that I would actually win the auction! I had two of the three eggs hatch, and I ended up with a pair!

Meet Peter and Olivia!



and here they are with their motley group of hatchmates, some EasterEggers and Sizzles

Very adorable! I love their looks! Young and perhaps wise. Middle one looks like she's about to sing in a production!

 

[cjwaldon]

I'm confused. This one hatched today, a first for me. I don't know the gender. Per the GFF website, "Male chicks had a white spot behind their heads and female chicks had well-defined “chipmunk” stripes in the down on their backs." This chick has both the white spot and the well defined chipmonk stripes. So is it a boy or a girl? I'm inclined to say girl. What do you guys think?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

My one that was like that looked very female within a few days. Because it has very distinct striping I would say female. I have heard though that these are not as good for breeding from- you could possibly lose the autosexing trait. IMO it's worth hanging on to her and RECORDING carefully so you can test hatch. THEN if this is a problem with her chicks I would cull her.

Rinda

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I got home from work today and found Rupert (my cockerel from Mary's eggs) dead in the pen. No clue why he died, he always did seem a little off though. So if anyone will be at the PNPA show in Salem next month and has an extra rooster, let me know!

 

[Miss Molly]

I'm confused.  This one hatched today, a first for me.  I don't know the gender.  Per the GFF website, [COLOR=0000CD]"Male chicks had a white spot behind their heads and female chicks had well-defined “chipmunk” stripes in the down on their backs."[/COLOR]  This chick has both the white spot and the well defined chipmonk stripes.  So is it a boy or a girl?  I'm inclined to say girl.  What do you guys think?

     

I'm thinking pullet too.

 

[ChicKat]

I'm thinking pullet too.

I also think pullet. The white spot is pretty small...and the strips are pretty distinct.