Recent content by LAFreewayChickens

No. Except possibly if your "Ameraucanas" are actually partridge colored easter eggers (i.e. have coloration pretty much like CL hens without the barring).

I'm in San Diego now.

After years of breeding CLs and never being 100% sure what Cream is really "supposed" to look like, and whether the fact that you can see rust on my roosters wings means they are not homozygous for cream, I got some Bielefelder eggs and hatched them at the same time, so now I have a comparison...

I kept one pullet until she was near POL. I wanted to keep her at my house (I have breeding stock and roosters at a farm), but she had a very loud voice. She was very pretty, though. I have been getting about one per hatch of a weeks worth of eggs, which was about 5-6 per bird, once in a while...

If anyone in S. Cal is looking for CL white sports, I have a pairing in my flock that produces them about 25% of the time. So I often have one or two of the chicks available. I also can tell that girl's eggs apart from everyone except her sister, so I can usually ship eggs that have about a 1...

Hammytammy, I've crossed my CL roos over Delware hens, which is a great gold sexlink cross. The girls grow out barred buff colombian and lay green eggs, whereas the boy are mostly white like a Del with some gold leakage at maturity and bigger than the CL roos, and thus they would be good meat...

The second one does have female looking eye stripes. If the chipmunk strip is clearly defined that would be another data point in favor of female. The males feather in pretty plain black and white (light grey) while the females have much more brown and chestnut/red in their initial true...

The top two are both boys. In the bottom pic, the one in the front is a girl. I can't tell from that angle about the one in back, but it looks boyish.

I'm been getting some detached air cells (free floating groups of small bubbles) in eggs from different pens. Them seem to be more likely in the eggs that were recently laid on the day I'm at the farm to pick up. (I'm only at the farm where I have my breeding stock on Sundays, other folks at...

The American SOP calls for "Eyes: Dark Brown"

Australorps should have very dark brown or black irises (eyes).

This is Mr. Sleepy. (He was that chick that was constantly nodding off while standing up). He was the sire to a number of black sexlink chicks, until predators got his Barred Rock Ladies. He survived without a scratch. His daughters have been good layers, laying right through the winter (at...

First let me say that I have found this thread EXTREMELY usefully and informative, especially the information in the first post by Tim. Thank you Tim. I understand why you keep it short, and I'm not trying to pick an argument, but just provide some information based on my experience. That...

I would guess the Legbar, since it is breed from Leghorn stock, but I'm just guessing. My CL are in San Diego (CA) and the lay pretty well. They slow down in the winter a bit. I've sold both CL x Del sexlinks and Black Australorp x Barred Rock black sexlinks to the same people, and I've heard...

Actually you can use Cream Legbar. It's got Gold genes. These are diluted by cream in the pure legbar, but cream dilution is recessive. I was actually coming to this thread to post a picture of one of my grown out females from a CL x Delaware sexlink...