Poultry Breeds of Spanish Ancestry

[gjensen]

I don't think they're because of a splash bird. I have splash with nice really dark slate legs - even in the same box as babies. Once I get this camera functional, I'll share pictures.

I asked because my lighter colored birds tend to have lighter legs. Not exclusively, but there is a dominant trend.

 

[gjensen]

Leg color can change with age at least with penedesenca ( wheaten and partridge anyways) and ameraucana usually do to. I'd say wait but do not know Andalusians

Mine changed a bit to. Some anyways. Still my lightest colored legs in the beginning were the lightest later.

I have to agree that it might be best to wait a bit, because if the ended up lighter than they should be, but the birds was excellent otherwise . . . .

Lacy, are you saying white legs as in purely white? Are these chicks? Are all of the parents with good dark legs?

 

[Lacy Blues]

Yes, these are chicks, 5 days old. I'll have to double check the parents. There may be some white legs out there... actually, I remember the cock I used, that ugly splash guy (because I had no other splash to use) had white legs. Every chick in the box, save two, are his offspring. So, I guess I will see how many I have with what colors, take a look at the mothers and go from there.

Type-wise, these chicks are baffling me. I just told them this afternoon that they all look like a bunch of orpington chicks! ROUND! How did this happen? Oh well, maybe its because they don't have a heat lamp but rather a heat pad to get under for warmth. They're in the house so it isn't "cold" at all but maybe they are puffing up anyway. I don't know. I won't cull any of them for type for quite a while yet. I'll give them plenty of time to grow and look the way they should.

 

[cooliechick]

I truly seem to have solved my problem with not being able to post. A friend told me to change from the M word browser to Firefox. It seems to have solved my problems and, my computer is much faster too. <a HUGE smile>

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Good news

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I sent a dozen Crele eggs on trade to South Carolina
here is what I got in the mail today from my friend out there.
12 crele. I should be getting some Black soon too from Joshua ( Dirty Ankle Acres)

 

[Lacy Blues]

Congratulations Jason! All the way to South Carolina? Oh man, I hope they hatch for you.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Congratulations Jason! All the way to South Carolina? Oh man, I hope they hatch for you.

me too. I shipped 3 dozen eggs the last few weeks on trade.
All crele shipped
1 dozen crele in return. Now I'm waiting on 2 dozen black penes eggs too

 

[Hangtown Farms]

here are the black eggs Im waiting on

 

[gjensen]

Good deal Jason. From coast to coast. Hope they hatch well. She is not far from me.