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    Green eggs and beards rooster selecting

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    Green eggs and beards rooster selecting

    Thank you. POA is to keep roaster for a few years at a time. This question is based around this group. My current main rooster is a copper maran. Has produced olive egger daughters. I have chosen 1* splash rooster, large beard, pea comb 1* mottled roo, beard, pea comb As I am not sure of...
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    Green eggs and beards rooster selecting

    I do have 2 roosters in this mix that are very green. Like green feet and face. They don't have beards but think these guys have been told this is a strong indicator that they carry green genes. Would this be a better first step and then later work on beard?
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    Green eggs and beards rooster selecting

    Would be very happy With a similar outcome. Honestly would just like more colour's than not colored. Would a rooster hatched from a very blue egg change anything
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    Green eggs and beards rooster selecting

    Bands would have been a good idea. Will do this in future. Would blue hatched roos do the same?
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    Green eggs and beards rooster selecting

    Wow. Good info. Haven't seen these testing options locally. South Africa. Buget option perfered. Love the big beard little beard. Moms egg color - I am aware that there is still a chance of other colour's. Just want to increase my chances for future generations. Would it be an option to use...
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    Green eggs and beards rooster selecting

    Would maybe consider for the following year when I have a larger green laying flock.
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    Green eggs and beards rooster selecting

    Is the beard gene strong? I am not too sure what color egg they hatched from. 70% of the eggs I hatched where green/blue/olive/chocolate so there is a strong chance of a colored gene. But lost track. There is 3 bearded rooster that I like. I guess colour's and feathers I will get in the hens...
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    Green eggs and beards rooster selecting

    Could anyone give advice on what roosters I should keep. I have been trying to get my own Easter egger flock. Last year I got eggs from a local homesteader and hatched out a few batched for this year's hens. I hatched mostly green and blues however some pinks as well. I didn't track what came...
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    Ayam cemani rooster over olive eggers guess?

    Better the Google. Thank you for taking the time. The Ayam cemani where kinda mistake flock was been sold cheap by a friend. Got them because I thought the black bones and skin was cool. Is the Ayam cemani worth making my cooler? Or should the be separate flock? I have 4 x hens 4 x roosters...
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    Ayam cemani rooster over olive eggers guess?

    Hi I have been breeding olive eggers. Have now got: 2 x olive egger layers (back breed to bcm) 1 x olive/chocolate layer (back breed to bcm) *hatching these hens eggs currently* Also have: 4x Ayam cemani hens 1x easter egger - green layer 1x salmon faverolle - pink /brown 1x mix breed -...
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    Egg colours. First gen, second gen

    Okay, so next question is. These eggs (hens) over BCM rooster should give me gen 2 olive eggers and some chocolate? I have a bunch of eggs that I bought in and hatched. In this bunch I have a araucana, EE, and OE rooster. Both OE and araucana have beards (a trait I like) but are not yet mature...
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    Olive egger breeding / rainbow eggs

    Going to give I a try as I am wanting to get my numbers up anyway. Will incubate these and see how it goes
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    Egg colours. First gen, second gen

    So hens have been laying in the flower bed. BCM rooster. Found this stash. These eggs have been over the BCM dad again. So thinking even dark layers
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    Egg colours. First gen, second gen

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