7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[daxigait]

They have been together. I have just never checked for fertility. I just read about how this weekend. I just got the one roo for my Lavenders and protection. The other roo was supposed to be a pullet, but wasn't

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Are Isbars blue egg layers? I think they are neat looking birds.

They lay green I am pretty sure.

 

[ronott1]

They lay green I am pretty sure.

Usually, sometimes they will miss the blue egg shell gene.

Green eggs are a color combination of blue and brown=green.

A blue egg shell covered by a brown coating.

 

[bamadude]

Are Isbars blue egg layers? I think they are neat looking birds.

Their eggs look green. But they are (supposed to be) double blue on eggs shell genes

 

[bamadude]

Usually, sometimes they will miss the blue egg shell gene.

Green eggs are a color combination of blue and brown=green.

A blue egg shell covered by a brown coating.

They are not supposed to be "olive eggers". They should carry double blue. Some of the second imports are having issues with only having 1 copy of the blue gene.

 

[ronott1]

They are not supposed to be "olive eggers". They should carry double blue. Some of the second imports are having issues with only having 1 copy of the blue gene.

I read about that!

Cull for that I suppose. It is harder to tell with the roosters(or longer to tell). How does the new line look? Are they up to Standard?

 

[bamadude]

Greenfire farms imported them. They have an excellent description on their website

 

[bamadude]

The new line sucks. To everyone. They are ugly. But the orignal line is scarce and inbreeding has its problems

 

[bamadude]

I saved 2males from the original lines that i liked (there is no sop here). I hatched several dozen second import birds. I kept 6 females to breed with my males. It is an experiment in progress

 

[chicken pickin]

I saved 2males from the original lines that i liked (there is no sop here). I hatched several dozen second import birds. I kept 6 females to breed with my males. It is an experiment in progress

Do you have pics of your Isbar breeding stock?