Does anyone have any of there chickens from Hoover and can give me any info?
I have some from the 2/6/19 hatch - only know what is posted on their web page. Cannot wait until mine mature :-) The 7 blue in this pic right after arrival...
A few years ago, I was gifted a frizzled silkie...best thank you gift ever I now have some of his daughters and grand daughters who are also frizzled silkies and just bought a smooth sizzle young cockerel. Will breeding him to my filkies produce both frizzled and smooth sizzles, silkies and...
Knock wood havent had a predator breech it...did have a 5 mo bcm cockerel yanked out of the run I was using that was 2 x 4 welded wire but no harm using it as a coop :-)
Wheatens arent slate at hatch unlike most blue, black and lavs. I try to keep the ones who turn slate the youngest and those are always the darkest. BBS and lavs have an E alelle which complicates matters - makes the shanks black unrelated to the slate sex linked gene so I wouldnt try to use...
So far, all of mine have been blue wheaten am cock over WLH hens. Some wheatens have darker slate shanks then others. The father of my current cocks had lighter slate and his pullets sex linked took longer to color in.. I can sex at hatch with my current BW boys but I select for dark slate and...
If you use a purebred ameraucana rooster (not an EE), you will NOT have yellow skin and the chicks will be sex linked - pullets have slate shanks (right in pic)and cockerels have white (left in pic). They have white feathers with varying spots if a white LH hen was used.
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I dont know what an americano is...americana is a made up name designed to confuse the uniformed buying public and ameraucana is a breed. Your chick looks like a cute mix - might be an Easter egger (mix) - they often have green legs - ameraucana never do
No, but I am growing out 2 BLH now 16 weeks old to put one with my blue wheaten and the other with my silver am roosters...would love to see resulting hen pics if anyone has them. I'll also give both WLH but have crossed BW and WLH before...am over LH is slate shanked pullet sex linked fwiw...