Posts by lizgarf

Now this is an interesting development!  I've had a bit of a broody epidemic with my bantams, which finally broke a few days ago.  Frida was the last one to join the broody party, so it makes sense that she would be the first...

Oh, and look at this beautiful "second egg" I got today from my brahma:  

Congratulations!  It's beautiful! My last two holdouts started laying this past week - at 10 months!

Frida laid her second egg today and it has a little bit of tint - somewhere between cream and the palest tan, just a hair lighter than the eggs from my frizzled cochin, and softly speckled.  So, I still don't know what she is, but...

Huh! I guess I still have a lot to learn about breeds.  I just saw some pictures of blue laced brahmas - too cool!  But she definitely is a lot more delicate. So, who knows?

She doesn't seem at all Brahma to me - not the shape or the color, and Brahmas lay brown eggs, anyway.  I'm thinking maybe Wynadotte for the comb and the lace and something with lightly feathered legs, like a Marans or something...

I've been trying to figure out what Frida is for awhile now, and I'm thinking that maybe she's a bantam blue wynadotte crossed with something with feathered legs?  That's a rose comb, right? There was a fourth little egg in the...

Yeah, she must be a mix, because I can't find anything with a rose comb and feathered legs and her colors, let alone with white eggs! I guess I'll just have to wait a few more days to figure out if it's her egg or not.  Keep the...

Yes, she could be a mix.  The people I got her from said they thought there were some marans in the eggs they had hatched, and so when I noticed the feathered legs, and after looking at lots of pictures, I thought that was what...

I didn't think her ear lobes were white, but maybe they are.  They look pink to me, but she's still developing.  I thought I had read that marans can have double combs, but maybe that was wrong.  But what about the...