Recent content by red egghead

really, i thought they were pretty good layers, once they get started

good to know, I was told yhey wouldn't lay until 30 weeks

I THINK THATS A REAL good price, too cheap in fact are they gone yet?

get all the goo you can off the chick. make sure legs are moveable, what's left will turn hard when it dries. hope you got enough goo off. tough one for sure!

shoot all the way to texas

me too!

you must have blue genes in parents if you breed a splash cochin to a black cochin the result is all blue offspring. the originals you start with need the blue, black, splash genes. if that makes sense to you

could be a reverse paint, or more likely genes not stable for this cross breed back to one side or other, and you will probably get more consistent results.

I would say that's probably right, I expect to come back to red or orange eyes also

brilliant, i couldn't have explained it better. usually when I tell someone that a splash crossed with a black will produce all blue offspring

you got it center is roo

crossing black to black will get all black breeding splash to splash will get you all splash. I would like to see if anyone knows what colors to breed to get all blue? what cross gets all three colors in off spring? what colors get half black and half blue offspring? what colors to breed to...

seems like what we are used to is sometimes hard to change.

yes, but dont expect consistency when breeding these hybrid birds. the gene pool is just too wide in scope, no telling what the offspring will do, just saying!

these birds are not a pure breed,and wont reproduce birds like themselves as I stated that will take years of selective breeding to get any consistency in breeding icb to icb, one must also be careful not to let them become inbred. if that happens; time to start over