Recent content by SusanJoM

I ordered these thinking I was going to plumb them directly in, but forgot about needing to reduce the pressure. I've got four separate coops and four separate water supplies, so four pressure valves reducing valves are gonna be expensive.... Has anyone used this...

Nevermind.... I just ordered them :-)))) Susan

So are the ones you linked us to "the best"? I am so tired of messing with dirty water, but just discovered this methodology today. Yippee. Susan

I'm having a lot of yolks that look like the eggs are "old", but....they aren't. I'm getting a dozen or two eggs a day and I cook most of them within a day or two and feed the scrambled eggs back to the chickens. When I started doing this I cut their feed back from the 20% to the 16%. Is that...

Pullet for sure.

Lovely silver-blue Easter Eggers. What could be finer....:-))))

You are offering chicks, right? Not eggs? Susan Okay, that was a dumb question, this is the "hatching egg" forum. My apologies.... Boy oh boy, I'm still confused. If this offer is for chicks, I'll take them. Susan the somewhat addled but interested If the offer is for eggs, I will try...

Excellent !!! I'll open the bidding at $35. and hope no one outbids me :-))) Susan

Can you give me a simple explanation for the possibility of black offspring? It it due to the barring gene being doubled or ???? Okay, obviously I should just wait for an answer and not speculate. Susan

Excellent (not him, but the information). Thanks. Do you -- or does anyone -- have links to pictures of what we are wanting these Lavs to look like? I would love to see them. Thanks Susan

This is my one and only Lavender Ameraucana. Currently I have a batch of LA eggs incubating away under a broody Cuckoo Marans, which means that by next season I will have at least one or two or too many other LA roos to chose from when breeding with the LA hens. So, what I am wondering, is...

Thanks Kev, and darn if I didn't remember that I had just read something here http://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/gms4-incomplete-dominance-of-blue-feathering/ that blue is due to a gene which inhibits the expression of the black... Susan

Quote: And that's my big question: is it a defect in the black gene or an occasional mutation? Hmmm.... Someone is gonna tell me and I'm gonna smack my forehead and say "well, duh....."

I don't know quite how to ask this question, but it came up in my thinking about a local offering of Black Copper Marans eggs which the offerer suggested might produce some Blue and/or Splash offspring. Isn't a visually black bird that is carrying the blue gene really the Easter Egger of the...

EXCELLENT !!! Thank you so much. How all of that managed to escape me I don't know, but it did. I will use this 'bator much better from now on....:-))) Susan