Recent content by Christie Rhae

Ditto on that.

holy smokes! This thread is usually slow. I miss a month or so of reading posts and there are pages and pages to catch up!! Gonna go back and start where I left off...

Hey all! Guess what I have zipping and pipping in my incubator? Eggs from Lisa Olson! This is my 4th try at getting some good marans to start with here in Hawaii. Last year I was advised to try to get eggs from Lisa Olson and after all this time I finally got eggs from her and they are...

That is interesting Barb... I have been too busy to think of hatching till this month but I did have in the back of my mind that I wanted my girls to be as mature as possible before I hatched any chicks from them. I have made it over the one year mark. Hope the babies will be strong! This...

I have had such a crazy busy winter/early-spring that I only just this week set up my breeding pens for my blue andalusian-ameraucana project. I am so excited to get hatching! I had not hatched a single chick in one year! Just pretty much spent the last 12 months watching my birds grow out...

Lol... I have spent a couple years following every post on this thread...I have not been able to keep up for a number of months now. But I see I missed nothing! Oh crap... I am gonna get pulled back in just by posting once. Ack! I am such an addict! Lol

Well I missed 19 pages but... nothin new. lol!! Egg color discussions and ameraucana VS easter eggers. Does anyone feel like they are experiencing deja vu?

I am 19 pages behind!!! Didn't think I was gone that long. I will have to catch up later. My email account that all my notifications goes to has been having trouble and without those reminders I finally got out of practice of checking backyard chickens.com. No excuse I know. Lark your eggs...

Can someone help me understand this chart? The egg in the first column is the olive egg. Is that the F1? When it says F1 bred to dark layer, offspring bred to dark layer. Is that just kinda saying the same thing twice? Or does it mean F1 (the original olive egger) bred to a dark layer then...

marans.org Go to "varieties". I don't think blue is a recognized color yet though.