6+ Bantam CROSSES including Dark Skinned Easter Egger

[SparkyCrows]

Hens include :

Lf blue wheaten easter egger over frizzled partridge cochin (carries frizzle gene but she's not frizzled herself, peach eggs)

Gold sebright over lf easter egger (cream eggs),

Serama over black cochin (brown eggs),

and a Black silkie over a white wheaten easter egger (green eggs).


Roosters include:

rumpless easter bantam with double blue genes, (half sib to my silkie easter banty)
true auraucan (also rumpless with 2 hanging rump feathers & a high pea comb, father to rumpless roo),
two other easter bantams,
a black silkie,
a gold sebright,
a black SERAMA-cochin,
a mottled japanese-cochin cross,
a laced mille fleur/buff crested polish cross,
lf blue cochin,
barred rock,
or buff laced polish crested rooster.

It's pretty eclectic but the chicks are always adorable! Happy to share whatever genetic details I've got.

BLUE/GREEN Silkie EASTER EGGs in this set! Chicks are hatching out with dark skin, feathered legs, and pea combs.

Some photos are in my byc uploads also, summer 2010 hatches can be seen at http://flickr.com/photos/soapy

SparkyCrows is also on eBay!


Standard clause: It's my job to not drop your eggs, leave them out in the freezing wind, or pile them under 16 heavy boxes.
The postal service's job is to get the package to you as best they can. Eggs will be packaged for survivability but I can not guarantee hatch rates since there are so many things that can go wrong.

 

[ChooksChick]

I love the idea of these crosses! Are you working on a genetics project?

The dark-skinned EE is a really neat idea, as the carnosine increase would make the roos wonderful freezer stock. There are a lot of restaurants starting to get in on the black-skinned birds. Bantams might not be as valuable, but they would still be pretty!

Have you any pics of the parent stock?

 

[SparkyCrows]

The short answer to your project question is "yes!".

I'm rather tickled that the black skin has carried forward several generations without having to infuse more silkie genes but my main goal is bluer eggs.

Etsuko is now locked up with her half-brother Romeo in hopes of generating hens laying bluer eggs. Their mother (Aikiko) laid marvelously light blue eggs but Etsuko's have a strong green tinge. Romeo's father was a true araucana (Rupert) so I'm really hoping he'll pass on either Aikiko's blue or Rupert's blue genes. We shall see....

 

[ChooksChick]

Shoot! I missed these...I'll email you about it- I forgot what I was doing and left without bidding...