Thank you for all the information, my friend! I dunno if he looks much like a Cream Legbar or not, never having seen a CL chick before. I really do like the looks of the adults, though. All I could go by was what was marked on the eggs from MPC. I didn't buy the eggs...they were won in a contest here on BYC by @LocalYokel, who then gifted them to me after my heart attack and stent, and didn't select the eggs individually but rather by "assortment". Boy, you ain't kidding about the dismal hatching results from shipped eggs - especially when they took an extra few days to get here. Would have been faster to have you pick them for me up at the Casper sorting center and then drive down to Casper myself!
What a serious mistake it was to try shipped eggs as a first time attempt at incubating. I know some get incubation addiction...I don't think I'm cut out for it. I'd rather just hatch a few here and there to keep rotating my older birds out and newer ones in.
As for egg production, that's not that big a deal for me. If whatever I have lays decently, that's plenty good enough, since I have no plans to try breeding anyway. I get more than enough to satisfy the family and sell enough to regular customers to pay for the feed....most months....and that makes me happy. I'm content to have a nice little flock of backyard chickens with a few different kinds and I like it that way - no pressure. Um, I don't did pressure good!
