2014 Hatchery Chick Orders

[StewedMammal]

Ok, I have a question for everyone. Next year I want to cross my Salmon Faverolle rooster with some of my EE's. Will the chicks have feathered legs and what color eggs would the chicks lay when they get older if my EE's that I have now lay a blue egg?

Yeah, they should have feathered feet and some or most should lay a colored egg.

 

[kenzier093]

Yeah, they should have feathered feet and some or most should lay a colored egg.

By colored do you mean blue, green, or brown?

 

[kenzier093]

They will have partially feathered legs and will lay light brown eggs.

I also have a golden laced Wyandotte roo. If I breed him with an EE will the chicks have puffy cheeks like the EE or not?

 

[nikkers390]

Anybody have any info or experience with Valley Hatchery out of NC?

 

[StewedMammal]

By colored do you mean blue, green, or brown?

All of the above. Green eggs are a dominant gene and I also heard it was caused from a harmless virus that changes the color of the shell, so as long as one of the parents lay green/blue eggs, the offspring should as well.

 

[keesmom]

All of the above. Green eggs are a dominant gene and I also heard it was caused from a harmless virus that changes the color of the shell, so as long as one of the parents lay green/blue eggs, the offspring should as well.

Green eggs are caused by a hen with a blue egg gene and a brown egg gene.

 

[keesmom]

Here is an article on egg color inheritance. The blue egg gene is also located close to the pea comb gene. Forgot to add that Faverolles crosses often have extra toes.

http://www.communitychickens.com/2013/03/all-about-egg-color.html#.UxtsqPldWQM

 

[popsicle]

I also have a golden laced Wyandotte roo. If I breed him with an EE will the chicks have puffy cheeks like the EE or not?

Feathered shanks, rose comb, pea comb, beards, brown eggs and blue eggs are all dominant or partially dominant traits.

Play with the Chicken Calculator to get a better idea of what you might get.

 

[KuroKitsune]

march 26th Ideal will be shipping me 2 LF red cochin pullets, 3 barnevelder pullets, and hopefully 10 white leghorn pullets for a friend and 2 female khaki campbell ducks


i have deffinantly have an addiction to raising chicks...but its fine i dont want a cure

 

[MistyMountain]

Here I go, changing my order once again. So, hopefully I end up with: 2 Welsummer Pullets, 2 Cuckoo Maran Pullets, 2 Buff Orphington Pullets, 2 LF Blue Cochin pullets, 1 Welsummer Cockerel, 1 Americana Cockerel. Slated to ship out April 23rd from Ideal. I hope I don't change my mind again before then!!