I have blues, but not barred. I put the barred hens in my frizzle pen to make some frizzled Silkies :)
The barring is very obvious for the boys. They are full black with white dots on the heads. Always boys
Now at 1 week old the wing feathers are a solid blue! Not barred.. but they have a...
If you go with pea combs, it reduces the bowtie. I think Kev told me that.. My white hens gave off completely naked chicks. :) I didn't keep any of them. Was so sick of seeing white chicks :/
Should have kept this one I know.
Well all the hens before her were green egg layers. The father would have been a white egg line.
That's as far as I know.. I'm pretty sure that's the only colour he was collecting from them.. Could be wrong. I know the ones I got from him before he bred them to the leghorn only laid green eggs.
I wouldn't call them perfect. They are a light sky blue. Not pastel blue like my Ameraucanas. But they are blue :)
Lucky I think? I'm pretty sure the mothers all laid a green egg too. Not sure how two of them ended up laying blue?? It's confusing, sure. I did take a video of the egg coming out...
I don't use any of my naked necks for meat, but I am trying to beef them up. The whites have leghorn in them. They lay insanely well, HUGE HUGE eggs, but they may weigh 4 1/2 pounds max. Their eggs are the size of a Jumbo or bigger. they lay nearly every day and year round. They have never gone...
All of my naked necks lay either green or blue :)
Pullet #1 - Green eggs
Cockerel for 2015 breeding.
Pullet - green eggs. This is when she was young.
The two young cockerels I held back for spares.
This is one of my breeders from 2014. She lays a beautiful green egg
White...