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Oooh, I like Peyton very much! :D Love the green shining through; he looks flighty for sure lol... I like the look of them, they're different than just black and white birds. I actually am becoming quite attracted to the differences in them. (But I'm still partial to blue ;) )

Very nice! I like how you focused on the blue one ha-ha ;) I'm intrigued by the combs, they don't look at all like a standard single comb, but more like a game... They're beautiful girls, definitely see some mediterranean background in them. Do you find a lot of beards or muffs? I think I see...

Hey guys and gals, there's a current thread of another members order of Whitings they just received... See what we think ;) https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1076173/mcmurray-order-of-red-stars-and-whiting-true-blues#post_16461666

I find it curious that people are so obsessed with having chickens that lay blue eggs lol... I want chickens that lay blue eggs! :P All it does is feed my chicken addiction MORE ha-ha, if I can't buy them then I'll just have to get creative until I can. Knowing me, I'll figure it out just as...

Yeah, I went and looked; all that are available for the rest of hatch are males. :( But I also noticed they are "poor" meat birds... I need bigger birds :P I'm crossing a Blue Andalusian with some BAs in spring, so I'll get some blue birds, but not blue eggs. I can still eat them I hope lol...

That's nice! I wonder if that means they're brooding more than they had originally planned on, since they seem to have sold out so fast... Maybe I should go place an order before I miss out again lol ;)

Oh, ok gotcha, I'll lose the aytosex due to the coloration not being dominant in the cross... Well that helps me understand how hard it would be to sex them then ;) But I would still keep the blue eggs?.. so it actually helps because I was concerned about ending up with the blue bird with blue...

What happens to the patterns in the CLs , they just stop happening ng once we cross them? :( oh, I thought by crossing an autosexing breed female with a non but blue male, the babies would keep the pattern from mom...?? Well, lol scrap that. I don't really care about making a sexlink yet; I...

Lol oh now you are not going to be addicted to chickens just from coming on BYC ha-ha; that's just your excuse ;) It looks like I might not have a choice but take a drive too! I think we could put our brains together and compare notes, since it seems that our goals are the same, and it also...

I agree @donrae; it seems that there's a selling point for the blue breeds over other colors for sure... I looked into the cream legbars and a little shocked at the price tag on some fancier breeds just because if breeding potential, so if course I would be daft to not try to take advantage of...

I'm not entirely sure, @BDRanch, but I think you could keep a Blue feather with a CL, but they have patterned feathers that I'm not sure would breed OUT... I'm new at chicken genetics lol; my horticulture based knowledge us not sufficient enough to figure out the feathering patterns in...

Oh see now, that figures lol; I hadn't placed my order yet! :P You might have the best luck calling the store in Salida, or maybe see if they have a website for Murdoch's... I would be inclined to personally call and see if they can order a batch, but they would probably want a deposit and a...

Wow, thanks! I just started this project, so I appreciate the tips! ;) And to think, I was fine with just some "chickens" and some "eggs", until we got a new fancy feed store and they had these "Easter eggers", and I had to do a Google search about whether they were a joke or not.... Fast...

Oh I just might have to do that! I used to live over by Montrose, so I knew when you said "Murdoch's", I might be in for a drive ;).... Oh but a beautiful and well worn drive it is; I miss the western slope! Me too! I love my EEs; they do really well in the cold; must be the beards lol ;) So...

I actually LIKE my EEs and want more like them... Lol at least I can count on my mutty EEs to givee eggs every day, snow or shine... That's what caught my attention in that picture... The many different body shapes; that looks like MY flock and THEY lay blue eggs and mine don't. It doesn't...

Lol @donrae...skanky..I haven't heard THAT in a while ;) But I agree 100% ha-ha... I really really think they could have went just one or two generations further and ended up with something like these.... Now, THOSE, I would buy, hands down. I'm a nut for the uniformity, and I can see one or...

You know, I noticed the picture ofvthe BIRDS had changed, but I didn't even notice the eggs... But you're right, it looks different than I recall.... They obviously had cropped the flock photo, but editing the color? That seems strange, since they seem to have edited the eggs to a GREEN egg...

Well, I have no experience with games, but as far as them returning to roost, as long as they know it as "home", they should stay by it for the first few days before venturing too far away, and in that time, you might have to " herd" them into the coop at dusk for the first few days. I've...

No, most definitely not :( It will work for the first couple of weeks, but they will most likely start fighting in a coop that small, and will likely end up over the fence of the run... My 18 layers have a coop that is 7x9 and their run is extra large, 150 feet by 50 feet, and they still go...

Actually, it makes perfect sense, and is a great little tidbit to know... I don't want birds that dint know how to go coop up to lay or roost, and I don't like when they are dumb to predators. I was looking at thses because I'm breeding Andalusian, Ancona, Hamburg, and Buttercup in an attempt...