Very pretty. Who did you get yours from?
My 2 golden cuckoo roos that are supposed to be from the Braden line (indirectly) have white in their tail feathers. One has one white tail feather and the other has 2 white tail feathers grrrr.
Pic from yesterday of blue marans eggs. I have them next to some cacao pods I ordered. They are full of cacao beans that I now have planted to grow into chocolate trees
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I have one little Golden Phoenix hen that keeps hopping the fence & getting in with the EE rooster. Little hussie that she is...........LOL She does produce some really pretty ofspring but I am not into mixing things up much,..... so they are not in the pens with the regular groups. She...
I haven't heard of that and lord no my roos were fighting alot last spring because I had too many in the pen. Combs were definitely injured lol. Babies were made all over the place the hens wouldn't stop going broody... Maybe if a comb was seriously half cut off or something it could cause a...
Thank you, yes it makes sense
BTW I am totally jealous of your lavender ameraucanas eggs!
I am debating on setting some KWest eggs today. I was hoping one of the hens would go broody but now there's 5 eggs and they aren't sooo...
I have a few of Bellas eggs I could throw in the bator too but...
I have a ? regarding dark eggs genetics. Is it better to breed the son back to the mother or breed sibling to sibling? Assuming they were all from really dark eggs.
I have 8 BCMs from BHB. I have 5 pullets just at POL so far two have started laying and I couldn't be happier with the egg color. They are friendly and a nice size as well.
LOL, yep they would be wierd looking. Maybe we should breed them to a le fleshe (sp)and give them devil horns My teenage son likes orange...orange anything lol. So he thinks we should keep this horridly colored orange blk copper roo. I will have to get a pic of him today. I think he is an...
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Oh I think I must have his brother here but he is even more orange lol! Of course he looks like his comb will be nice too...came from a very dark egg as well and so did his mossy sister. I might keep her though, just to experiement.