Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Group 3: Dark Eggs

Our second incubation attempt was with 21 eggs from various dark brown laying breeds: Cuckoo Marans, Welsummers, Barnevelders and Penedesencas.

This hatch was less than stellar as well, resulting in only three peeps. Interestingly, they're all Cuckoo Marans. After an "eggtopsy" and some internet research, I was fairly certain that low humidity is the culprit behind my dismal incubation record. This proved correct and was rectified with Groups 7 & 8.

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This is the little rooster, Francois...

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and here he is with his two sisters in the background...

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One of the girls is Veronique, but I don't know which one. The other one has yet to be named. Maybe they're just the two Veroniques.

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