Following! My oldest flock of 10 girls have been laying for about a month and the next flock turns 20 weeks Monday. That flock has my green and blue colored egg girls. EE and Americaunas. Then my youngest girls (the dark egg layers) are another month or two behind them. Ahhh the wait is...
So, if I know the color of eggs my hens produce, is there a high likely hood that the offspring will be a shade of that plus whatever his genetics holds? How does egg color pass on exactly?
Yes! Thank you for your input. I have a few partridge hens that would make good mates. Is there any way to tell egg color or just see what my hens produce and then go from there?
Thinking about adopting this rooster. Please can anyone tell me about his coloring and what he may produce. He's an EE from Meyers. I have several EE hens a few partridge and one creamy colored one.
7/11 pullets that are over 20 weeks. The other 40 pullets haven't broke the 20 week mark yet. And I just adopted a flock of 2 and three year old layers today so hopefully they aren't too stressed and will just March on into laying tomorrow. I am sold out of eggs even before they start laying!
I'm getting mine laying in the morning and will go out during toddlers naptime and collect. They don't have access to nesting boxes until I let them out of tractor for the day.
Our 17 week old White Leghorn won the race. We have a flock of 35 mixed breeds all different ages. She was one of the oldest....longest 17 weeks ever. I suspect her siblings and my black austrolorps to be right behind her any week now.
I have a beautiful black Maran cross available (likely crossed with her purebred blue egg laying Americaunas). East side of Cleveland, Ohio. I bought him as an olive egger straight run from cedar crest nearby and she turned out to be a he. He's beautiful, black feathers with a green sheen...