Hm, here in Pietrasanta the temperature in this moment is 12 -15 and sunny, in the morning theres " la brina" a thin layer of white ice on the green grass in the morning. I have a white moroseta that lay one egg almost every day, one buff one as well. The buff one was the one that sat on the eggs in December and I kept her alone, because the others where picking on her when I put her with the others. Today I put her with the others.
My plan was to wait and see what the chickens would produce by themself this spring, but then curiosity got the cat and I put 4 eggs of the white hen in my incubator. Then I continued to put the daily egg inside.
Well, I dont know how it will end, but I can see the formation, the spider in 3 of them so far!
I was not sure the cook was doing his job, since he was a very timid dutch breed and the white hen was the dominant one.
My blue morogirl has not deposed yet, as far as i know...
As soon as I put the buff girl inside my pearlgray Gandalf did his job. When I let the white and blue ones in ,they had been let out for a stroll, the buff one had to sink to the ground to show her submissivness! She looked almost like a "Struzzo"! But its better for her to be in company, she has had more than a month to eat herself up to her usual strength!
I am very curious to see if we will have any black moro chicks, shortly before carneval, since that should be the outcome of a white/splash female and pearlgreay rooster! : )