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CindyinSD said:
After the last two winters I have decided only birds with cushion/rose/pea/almost-nonexistent combs will see winter here again. (Unless I should happen to be short of roosters...)
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You know that I have rose comb eggs in the incubator right now. They are auto sexing and the pullets will lay blue eggs.
 
R2elk said:
You know that I have rose comb eggs in the incubator right now. They are auto sexing and the pullets will lay blue eggs.
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I have been thinking about your pretty rose-comb blue-egg birdies a lot. 🥰 I have two single-comb cream legbars. Pullets only--the cockerel died in the brooder. I wonder what will happen, crossing them with my Buckeye boy?

He attacks me, but is very gentlemanly to the hens/pullets. Though he has so many, he seems to do a remarkable job at placing 🎯 everywhere. Since he disabled my other "mature" cockerel 😡, (who was pretty violent to the girls, it is true... 😡), I guess I'll keep him for now and just watch my back.
 
CindyinSD said:
I have been thinking about your pretty rose-comb blue-egg birdies a lot. 🥰 I have two single-comb cream legbars. Pullets only--the cockerel died in the brooder. I wonder what will happen, crossing them with my Buckeye boy?

He attacks me, but is very gentlemanly to the hens/pullets. Though he has so many, he seems to do a remarkable job at placing 🎯 everywhere. Since he disabled my other "mature" cockerel 😡, (who was pretty violent to the girls, it is true... 😡), I guess I'll keep him for now and just watch my back.
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Crossing with the Buckeye will add the brown egg color genes. If your goal is blue eggs, the brown egg color genes are nearly impossible to breed out.
 
duluthralphie said:
Where are you getting them from?

They might send you a female to replace the male, but they won’t take a chick back.

That would be a bio-hazard to everyone that buys their chicks and illegal under USDA and state regulations.

As I said I have owned them, they will give you 3 eggs, maybe 4 a week for the first season. The second season a couple eggs a week. By the third season you will have forgotten what their eggs look like. :old

They will stop laying sooner than the egg laying breeds. I had one that lived to be nearly 6 years old. Of course, the last three years she was a complete freeloader, not laying any eggs.
However, I still liked her, she was friendly and the “Eve” of all my toads.

Jerry or R2elk would most likely know more, they are far better read and have more experience than I have.

They are my Elders. :lau :lau :lau :lau :lau
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Nope your nose is growing again Ralphie . I have not raised meat birds in about 40 years and the rainbows were not around then .
 
CindyinSD said:
I have been thinking about your pretty rose-comb blue-egg birdies a lot. 🥰 I have two single-comb cream legbars. Pullets only--the cockerel died in the brooder. I wonder what will happen, crossing them with my Buckeye boy?

He attacks me, but is very gentlemanly to the hens/pullets. Though he has so many, he seems to do a remarkable job at placing 🎯 everywhere. Since he disabled my other "mature" cockerel 😡, (who was pretty violent to the girls, it is true... 😡), I guess I'll keep him for now and just watch my back.
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I know where you can get some legbar roosters..

It’s barely out of the way when someone travels to Rochester.
 

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