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  1. Lisa Harmon

    Thought this was a cool cross! Pretty Young laying hen

    I was wondering about a blue Copper and blue Orp cross, too. I wonder also if the dimorphic genes get passed on. Really a fun project to think about! Does she have a good lay rate, your hen? Hum... Too many things I wanna try!
  2. Lisa Harmon

    Delawares from kathyinmo

    I didnt know she also bred White Rocks?! I knew she had Barred Rocks, Delawares, and the New Hampshires. What else dont I know?! Or would that take too long to answer :gig Beautiful birds, all of them!
  3. Lisa Harmon

    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Im in SW Missouri. :)
  4. Lisa Harmon

    Barred Rocks Good Shepard Poulty Ranch

    I never wanted a barred rock, having only seen hatchery birds. I actually didnt like them much until I saw these! Wow! I want! :ep May I ask about the lay rate, growth rate, vigor, pullet/mature weight on the Good shepard line? I will be hatching alot once I get set up, leaning towards the meat...
  5. Lisa Harmon

    Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

    Does anyone breed the red brown Ameraucana? Apologies if its been asked before--2300+ posts is too much reading even for me!
  6. Lisa Harmon

    Golden Salmon Marans

    Okay, yes, then its best to stay with the bloodline that you mentioned before the produces btbm and gs. I will email you--thank you for replying! :D
  7. Lisa Harmon

    Golden Salmon Marans

    Question: since gs are pure wild type, they are very much like Welsumer, light brown leghorn, or red and silver dorking? Wels have an Mh though, yes? So gs are genetically closer then to leghorns and dorkings? Since it is nearly impossible to get a gs marans, how hard would it be to re-create...
  8. Lisa Harmon

    Breeding partridge color and pattern

    Would anyone be willing to explain the important points of breeding partridge colored chickens? I love Welsummers, PRocks and would like very much to have a flock of one or both. But a newbie like me trying to read the breed threads are like a 3rd grader trying to read "War & Peace"! One is...
  9. Lisa Harmon

    Delawares from kathyinmo

    SOOOO glad you are home again, and the surgery went well. I hope there wont be any more big health problems for you in the future! :thumbsup
  10. Lisa Harmon

    Wheaten Marans Roo Covering Red Star (Sex Link) Hens - An Experiment

    Come to mention it, a wheaten or black tailed buff marans and orp cross might just be the thing Im looking for: big, respectably fast growing... Marans roo x bo hens for (f1) hens, bo roo x marans hens for an (f1) split roo, then cross the f1 offspring... Hum. Thanks for the idea! ;)
  11. Lisa Harmon

    Welsummer roo over BO

    Does anyone have a guess what the f1 of a Welsumer roo and buff Orp would look like? Would the buff genes wreck the auto sexing and partridge coloration? :idunno
  12. Lisa Harmon

    Delawares from kathyinmo

    Im sorry you are having health problems :( I had hoped to get some of your chickens next year. But you tend to yourself and feel better soon
  13. Lisa Harmon

    Welsummer crossed with a Buff Orpington would look like?

    Did you ever hatch any? I was thinking of trying it myself
  14. Lisa Harmon

    Wheaten Marans Roo Covering Red Star (Sex Link) Hens - An Experiment

    So glad to have stumbled on this thread! I just posted a thread about crossing welsumers and orps for a meat bird but trying to keep the dark egg for a more dual purpose bird. I had wondered about wheaten or cuckoo marans and orpingtons too! Can you tell me, when they get that age, if the f1...
  15. Lisa Harmon

    Welsummer and orpington cross--genetics gurus out there?

    Does anyone know if it is possible to get a decently dark egg color while increasing size and lay rate with the Welsummer? My thought is to cross a wel roo x buff orp hen for f1 hens, and a buff roo on wels hens for and f1 cockerel. Then to cross the f1 for an f2 wel colored roo. Would I get a...
  16. Lisa Harmon

    Can you induce broodiness?

    here was the link I read, sorry to have posted without it http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/nov95/broodiness1195.htm?pf=1
  17. Lisa Harmon

    Can you induce broodiness?

    I just read that prolactin is the hormone responsible for broodiness in turkeys. I wonder if there is a way to increase or inject prolactin in a chicken hen we want to brood?
  18. Lisa Harmon

    Growing fodder for chickens

    I'm having problems doing it this way too (ie soilless). Think I'm gonna go back to what I know: can sow my seed in organic potting soil, water it down really well with Nature's Magic and it sprouted just fine. Guess I'm an old-style garden gal. Haven't given up on growing the fodder. I lost 3...
  19. Lisa Harmon

    Molting

    I got 12 already laying chickens that are I think about 11 mo to a year now, and they had been with a roo before I got them so they are missing feathers etc. I've had them for two months. I did change their food a month ago, and the egg numbers were stabilizing pretty well between 7-9 eggs a...
  20. Lisa Harmon

    Growing fodder for chickens

    okay, die hard gardener that I am, I have resisted not using soil or sand or anything in the flat just probably by force of habit. But I just sowed a couple flats this way, and I hope it breaks the "soil addiction" (grin). Fingers crossed!
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