Recent content by TayInTX

Yep! WTB should be homozygous for the blue egg gene and breed true, producing 100% blue egg layers.

These were the first two eggs, one from each hen, that were turquoise with a green hue to them. Had it been a hatchery EE laying these, I would have been delighted with the shade but when you’re expecting blue eggs, anything greenish is a bummer! I truly was shocked when I was watching these...

Two of my hens laid turquoise eggs with a slight greenish hue to them on the same day. I was SO disappointed. Their second eggs were turquoise teal and looked prettier so I cheered up. Third eggs were bluer and the aim greenish cast was fading. Fourth eggs even more blue. Now they lay the most...

We must have ordered chicks around the same time because my PB girls just started laying, too! But my splash (also named Dottie! LOL!) I have not been able to catch in a nest box yet!

I’m sorry if this is a dumb question but are the Whiting True Blues always homozygous for the blue egg gene?

We are doing a 4-H breeding project using Hoover’s new Prairie Bluebell hybrid (Araucana x Leghorn). They lay a blue egg and have Oo egg color genetics. I’ve got a blue roo that will be over blue and splash hens. This will produce BBS offspring. In theory 75% will lay blue eggs and 25% will...

HE mounted AND VENT SWIPED one of my pullets! Guess that is my answer! (Unless dominant hens attempt to fully mate their flock mates?)

Her coloring seems to match gold EE rooster coloring I’ve been able to find online.

Domino is throwing us for a loop. She/He is barely 14 weeks, has no comb, and a wattle that is pink (not red, despite pics where she looks flushed from objecting to my picking her up). However she has rust on her shoulders, has been occasionally trying to dominance mount 10 week old pullets, is...

He’s a cockerel! Thank you everyone for your help! We’re going to keep him and breed him!

The solid black one with the near-colorless comb looks similar to a 9 week old sex-link pullet I have. (Same size comb & wattle development but extremely light colored like that.) I think you have at least one hen there.

She shipped from Hoover’s as a vent sexed pullet (Prairie Bluebell) but at 6 weeks and 5 days old, her comb and wattles are much more red than her 5 sister’s nude colored, barely there combs. She is also much larger, the same size as a hen I incubator hatched a week earlier than her hatch date...

I’ve been doing wing sexing for fun on my hatches, just to see if I could learn. I had a Buff Orp roo over GL Wyandottes, Buff Orps, Barred Rocks & Easter Eggers. The Barred Rock mixes were a sex link and the females had the female wing feather patterning. This gave me something definitive to...

I’ve been incubator hatching my flock’s eggs and reading up on how to get more pullets, too. I’ve heard apple cider vinegar in the water can help balance pH so, at the very least, an even number of pullets are produced. (There is some chatter that various trace chemicals in tap water may...

I used local wildflower honey with DoTerra OnGuard and Oreganol brand Wild Oil of Oregano that I get from Amazon. (It is wild Oregano already diluted in olive oil. I’ve had very good results with this wild Oregano.) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003QB7E5O/?tag=backy-20