• giveaway ENDS SOON! Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest: Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect CLICK HERE!

Search results for query: *

  1. Not-so Slick Chicken

    This looks like a lavender chick🤔

    Apologies for causing confusion (*edited to correct typo. Darn auto correct)
  2. Not-so Slick Chicken

    This looks like a lavender chick🤔

    Previous post mentioned they had birds with a hidden lavender gene, which people told them "is impossible", and they got their birds tested to confirm they did indeed carry lavender. I interpreted your reply (above) as "so there was a mutation to cause the lavender gene in your birds". I meant...
  3. Not-so Slick Chicken

    This looks like a lavender chick🤔

    While color mutations could potentially pop up, generally people use a bird that already has that color or pattern and cross it with the breed they want to have that new color. Then, they have to breed it back to SOP while retaining the new color (probably a lot of inbreeding)
  4. Not-so Slick Chicken

    This looks like a lavender chick🤔

    Interesting It'll be fun to see how they turn out in a few weeks or months Maybe you do have some recessive genes that just haven't hit the odds yet?
  5. Not-so Slick Chicken

    Breed Q: Crested Cream Legbar or no?

    I'll be excited to see how she turns out. I think those colors are going to be gorgeous
  6. Not-so Slick Chicken

    Dirt for baby chicks

    Not sure if there's a "window" for chicks with dirt (just never heard of it, personally. Not saying it isn't a thing) I know there is a critical time when newborn mammals need colostrum. I'm wondering if where you got your info was thinking of that, and attributed it to chickens?
  7. Not-so Slick Chicken

    Breed Q: Crested Cream Legbar or no?

    Not more experienced than you with this breed, but my only CCL pullet at ~6 weeks old. Yellow legs, noticeable crest forming, legbar pullet color/pattern forming.
  8. Not-so Slick Chicken

    This looks like a lavender chick🤔

    (Excluding the complication of colors that cover up other colors) Your splash birds should always produce blue offspring, unless they're paired with another blue or splash bird. And your splash chickens will never produce black offspring. However, if you're getting blue chicks from parents...
  9. Not-so Slick Chicken

    This looks like a lavender chick🤔

    I'm pretty new to these colors myself. But seems you're much more familiar with them I have 1 lavender orpington, 2 splash marans, and 1 splash ameraucana. When I received them as 2-3 days old (shipped from hatchery) the splash marans and lavender orp looked literally identical (except feathered...
  10. Not-so Slick Chicken

    This looks like a lavender chick🤔

    This is a long shot question, but is there any chance some of the eggs were actually from your splash hen? I've heard of at least one situation where a "green" layer suddenly lays "blue", because the brown paint didn't get added on top (blue shell + brown coat = "green" to our eyes) Also, if...
  11. Not-so Slick Chicken

    What kind of chickens do I have?

    Agreed with above. That's absolutely a meat specific bird. You might be able to find some info from some people on here on how to keep them alive and ... relatively healthy as an adult, but usually these types of birds ("Cornish cross / cornish x" or other broiler/meat chickens) have to be...
  12. Not-so Slick Chicken

    Olive eggers

    I had actually ordered a cream legbar cockerel (blue egg gene, fun feather colors) but he sadly didn't make it. Then my black ameraucana pullet turned out to be a cockerel. Which is convenient, but one less chance at a blue egg. Fingers crossed you get a speckled green egg! That would be very fun
  13. Not-so Slick Chicken

    Olive eggers

    I don't know why I didn't read the last part the first time. Also will be exciting to see the F1 eggs I have an Ameraucana cockerel, and various breeds of pullets (egg colors white, blue/green, tinted, brown speckled). I don't think I can get any dark green eggs, but I'll have a few colors. In...
  14. Not-so Slick Chicken

    Olive eggers

    I've heard people say that with birds and reptiles, crossing siblings is fine. I assume it's a "once in a while" thing. So assuming the place you got your birds from didn't regularly inbreed, there's likely not an issue if you do. Sounds like you have a good plan. I know it takes a while to...
  15. Not-so Slick Chicken

    I have no idea what the heck Hoovers Hatchery gave me

    ...markets both "Americana" and "Easter Egger". In reality, BOTH are Easter Eggers, as neither of them are the Ameraucana breed. Some of them might have an ancestor who was an Ameraucana. With easter eggers, when you see beard and muffs, it's often associated with ameraucana. *edited to fix typo
  16. Not-so Slick Chicken

    Olive eggers

    There's always the possibility of swapping who's with who. It would be really interesting to see what the OE produces with Marans. But the Ameraucana would definitely give more olives for you. I see the difficulty in choosing. Do you put olive eggers in with your Ameraucana? Or is that just...
  17. Not-so Slick Chicken

    Olive eggers

    It depends on what you're going for. What was the rooster's sire? He could potentially not have inherited the blue egg gene from the mom.
  18. Not-so Slick Chicken

    I have no idea what the heck Hoovers Hatchery gave me

    You said you got an "egger mix" I assume you mean "assorted colored egg layer" ? That's what's on their website. And it lists the potential breeds in the description. While it's true they don't sell Ameraucana, they do sell easter eggers and "americana" (which is an easter egger) Either way...
  19. Not-so Slick Chicken

    Will a predator attack cause a young hen to stop laying?

    You could add a camera to see if she is indeed eating eggs. You could do the roll-away boxes. You could modify your current coop/nest boxes. Or you could block off the current nests, and build a tiny "shed" just large enough for roll-away boxes outside your coop. These could stress your birds...
  20. Not-so Slick Chicken

    HELP! anyone who owns or knows about bunnies!

    I'm assuming you're in the states. And I'm also assuming these are Cottontails. Somebody earlier recommended finding a wildlife rehab center, and I'll second that, but for a different reason. Assuming these are Cottontails, they are wild animals. And to my current knowledge, illegal to keep...
Back
Top Bottom