I couldn't hang around while I didn't have chickens. That was too hard. Halo still has em? Cool. I don't remember , Is that her full s/n? I loved my blues from her. Missed you guys. Good to be back. Of course I am building an incubator :). This one was a wine cooler fridge. :D
Hey Walt... Yeah but nobody has chocolate in rocks. It's occurrence in blacks is nearly impossible odds. The only way to get it is to introduce ir from another breed where it is cleanly established, correct? That was after all, the question asked. How to get it.
Unless you want to own a...
Easiest route to choc rock would prolly be to grab a choc orp roo and have him cover bbs hens, and go for it. Be fixing type for a good long time, but there are good clean choc genes in orp here now.
And it would be a fun project. Me, I just loved my bbs rocks. They needed enough type work...
I have a cuckoo over wheaten marans, his legs are white too, he looks -- well -- like a bad crele, which is what he is in a round about way. He's a sweet guy though. Too sweet - the banties kick him around.
Sometimes a flash will wash out legs in a picture, I have had it happen.
If white...
left to right: Toad - sizzle and delaware, my blue baby girl, Blue (doh) and Perhaps a Delaware pullet. Perhaps may not be a keeper. Of course, only Blue is a rock. I need more blue rocks. But I need to fix my incubator first. I may fiddle along with blue delawares....
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The one on the right is a cockerel, not a pullet, sorry.
Ditto what Cyn said, but then she taught me!
I only have blues left now, my barreds, Ponder and Tinker and my last two partridge hens - George and Rusty - I gave them their father's names, I gave to a young family trying to...
Anyone in the Knoxville Area of TN want a Black Rock Rooster who's in deep doodoo with me? He's been with his own private harem for awhile and has gotten big britches without another rooster to keep him behaving. Since I'd prefer blues anyway, his time here is limited although he's gorgeous...
At least the Partridge Rock chicks I got from Ideal were VERY healthy and all the pullets/hens laid well and about 1/3 of them were good broodies. But easily half were incomplete Pg - pattern gene, so feathers were speckled or broken pencilled and not fully pencilled. Several were shafted -...