San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread - Page 611

Originally Posted by Amarisus 

Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm so glad you are happy with them! (This is Lindsey btw the lady who sold them to you lol) I didn't know you were on byc I had posted that same ad on here before but no one must have seen it :( But I'm glad they went to such a loveing home! Its been hard having to sell all my birds but know that they are going to a good home helps  If you did want to hatch their eggs they will be pure marans and should be fertile for quite some time! Thanks again!

Originally Posted by Amarisus 

Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm so glad you are happy with them! (This is Lindsey btw the lady who sold them to you lol) I didn't know you were on byc I had posted that same ad on here before but no one must have seen it :( But I'm glad they went to such a loveing home! Its been hard having to sell all my birds but know that they are going to a good home helps  If you did want to hatch their eggs they will be pure marans and should be fertile for quite some time! Thanks again!

And thank you for sharing my ad!

Originally Posted by dfdesigns 
One more vote for incubating some eggs... I just might have to do it!  

Originally Posted by SunnyCalifornia 

What kind of combs??

 

Andalusian X Ameracauna

Marans X Ameracauna

Easter Egger X Ameracauna

 

I got these lovely mixed eggs from Dana, 4 babies hatched and are 2 weeks old, and doing great!  I"m just wondering what to look for?

Originally Posted by WhiteMountainsRanch 

 

 

Pea combs are dominant so they should be on the majority of chicks that have a pea combed parent.

 

 

 

This website is REALLY cool, once you learn how to use it: 

 

http://kippenjungle.nl/breeds/crossbreeds.html

 

What you do is pick your parent breeds, and click " put into calculator"...

Then go to "browse M" and pick the coloring (so if you had entered say Ameraucanas, you pick whether it was a black, blue, wheaten, etc)...

Do the same thing for females...

Then hit "calculate"...

And click on the page that says "phenotypes" and it will tell you what the babies should look like, what kind of comb, feathered shanks, etc.

 

 

It's been 100% right for any cross that I've done here on the farm. 

Originally Posted by Amarisus 

I'm so glad you kept the frizzle for yourself she was one of my favorites! I'm glad they're happy and  that you're enjoying them, I hope you're friend enjoys hers as well  I do have a few EE left if you're interested  lol

Originally Posted by dfdesigns 

I am doing my best to win them over today... they had organic greens & watermelon early this afternoon. I hope they'll be happy here! Thanks so much for sharing your chickens - I'm kind of sorry I didn't grab another blue copper hen while I was there. You had some very neatly colored EEs that tempted me, too.

One more vote for incubating some eggs... I just might have to do it!  

Originally Posted by iamcraftqueen 

For those who got chicks at Hawthorn chick days. When do you expect them to start laying? First week of July seems to be what I have stuck in my head.