Thanks for your second message. We had such a cold wet start to summer I could have really used those chickens and ducks this spring. Organic slug bait is too expensive and nothing organic controls cut worms.
Well I'll try to answer your questions. To get a Silver EE hen you cross any Silver breed roo with a Gold Ameraucana. All the hens will recieve the Silver gene and one copy of the blue egg gene. To get a barred EE you cross any roo who is pure for barring with a dark solid color Ameraucana...
All the feed stores aroun here have those, but they are great layers. I have such a raccoon problem at the farm that I want to stay away from those escape artist leghorns. The farm is in a no shooting area and the population has gotten out of control. They seem too smart for the havahart...
I'm in Washington state and moving to a farm at the end of the month. I can finally get chickens! This will be a working farm so everything has to earn it's keep and then some. I know trying to earn money farming is crazy, but won't be quitting my day job just yet. So I need to pick a...