A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[duluthralphie]

Oh JR what a bummer. I'm so sorry. Do you have more pipping yet?

Did you set eggs today?

Did all the air sacs seem tight and in place?

 

[duluthralphie]

I leave poults in the hatcher 24 hours before putting them in the brooder and hatch guide chicks for them. It helps but poults are delicate

I do that with all fresh hatches, My hatch started yesterday (my last Thursday hatch of the year)and I have not even been to look at them yet. I like to stay away to avoid temptation to "help".




R2elk I was just wondering if the egg color on the one Finnie posted and her "testimony" helped verify the blueness of my eggs. I cannot believe how many people think legbar eggs are green with a blue tint. I always say they are blue with some having a green tint....

Also, I have a turkey dilemma my Bronze hens are troublemakers. they have found a small hole in the top of the coop they can exploit to go into the blues pen. All except one especially dumb or obedient hen, I am not sure which...

 

[R2elk]

I do that with all fresh hatches, My hatch started yesterday (my last Thursday hatch of the year)and I have not even been to look at them yet. I like to stay away to avoid temptation to "help".




R2elk I was just wondering if the egg color on the one Finnie posted and her "testimony" helped verify the blueness of my eggs. I cannot believe how many people think legbar eggs are green with a blue tint. I always say they are blue with some having a green tint....

Also, I have a turkey dilemma my Bronze hens are troublemakers. they have found a small hole in the top of the coop they can exploit to go into the blues pen. All except one especially dumb or obedient hen, I am not sure which...

It looks close to the egg that my Rose Comb Brown Leghorn/Cream Legbar hen lays except hers are a little paler. There seems to be a a huge amount of people advertising the Jill Rees line of Legbars and those do lay green eggs. The one Legbar hen that I have is from that line and her first eggs were olive colored but are now tapering off to a greenish blue.

 

[micah wotring]

Unsuccessful. Poult died. I have no idea why.

Ah, that's no fun...sorry...

 

[dheltzel]

It looks close to the egg that my Rose Comb Brown Leghorn/Cream Legbar hen lays except hers are a little paler. There seems to be a a huge amount of people advertising the Jill Rees line of Legbars and those do lay green eggs. The one Legbar hen that I have is from that line and her first eggs were olive colored but are now tapering off to a greenish blue.

I think the Rees line is a lot more diverse than anyone expected from show stock. Greenfire might have done some things with them to increase their stock quickly. Mine came directly from GF and I have never gotten an egg from them that I would call green, not even "greenish". They are as blue or bluer than the old line I had and also all of my Ameraucanas (with the exception of my Silver Ams that lay a sky to baby blue egg that just amazes me every time I collect them). Most everyone has grown accustomed to blue eggs that tend to teal or turquoise. I rather like those shades, but know that a true blue is the genetic goal, and my line of Rees are great layers of blue eggs. I sell a lot of legbar chicks and all my customers marvel at how many beautiful blue eggs they get. I often get pics they send back to prove it.

Anyone with Rees line birds laying green eggs should not be selling them as pure Legbars, IMO. Green egg layers are still terrific sellers in my area. I deliberately make OE's with some of my Legbars because there is strong demand for sexable OE's. There is no need to market a green egg layer as a Legbar, they will sell fine as OE's or EE's.

 

[duluthralphie]

I think the Rees line is a lot more diverse than anyone expected from show stock. Greenfire might have done some things with them to increase their stock quickly. Mine came directly from GF and I have never gotten an egg from them that I would call green, not even "greenish". They are as blue or bluer than the old line I had and also all of my Ameraucanas (with the exception of my Silver Ams that lay a sky to baby blue egg that just amazes me every time I collect them). Most everyone has grown accustomed to blue eggs that tend to teal or turquoise. I rather like those shades, but know that a true blue is the genetic goal, and my line of Rees are great layers of blue eggs. I sell a lot of legbar chicks and all my customers marvel at how many beautiful blue eggs they get. I often get pics they send back to prove it.

Anyone with Rees line birds laying green eggs should not be selling them as pure Legbars, IMO. Green egg layers are still terrific sellers in my area. I deliberately make OE's with some of my Legbars because there is strong demand for sexable OE's. There is no need to market a green egg layer as a Legbar, they will sell fine as OE's or EE's.

I think I have C and D lines. I always thought mine are blue or as blue an egg as I have seen.. I have been keeping mine as blue as possible. No new birds in here.

 

[R2elk]

I think the Rees line is a lot more diverse than anyone expected from show stock. Greenfire might have done some things with them to increase their stock quickly. Mine came directly from GF and I have never gotten an egg from them that I would call green, not even "greenish". They are as blue or bluer than the old line I had and also all of my Ameraucanas (with the exception of my Silver Ams that lay a sky to baby blue egg that just amazes me every time I collect them). Most everyone has grown accustomed to blue eggs that tend to teal or turquoise. I rather like those shades, but know that a true blue is the genetic goal, and my line of Rees are great layers of blue eggs. I sell a lot of legbar chicks and all my customers marvel at how many beautiful blue eggs they get. I often get pics they send back to prove it.

Anyone with Rees line birds laying green eggs should not be selling them as pure Legbars, IMO. Green egg layers are still terrific sellers in my area. I deliberately make OE's with some of my Legbars because there is strong demand for sexable OE's. There is no need to market a green egg layer as a Legbar, they will sell fine as OE's or EE's.

So far, I have never seen anyone selling hatching eggs from the Rees line of legbars on eBay with anything other than green tinted eggs in their advertising photos.

If yours are laying blue eggs, you are most likely the exception or they aren't actually the Rees line. I have come across many posts claiming the Rees line does have brown egg color genes in them.

 

[duluthralphie]

So far, I have never seen anyone selling hatching eggs from the Rees line of legbars on eBay with anything other than green tinted eggs in their advertising photos.

If yours are laying blue eggs, you are most likely the exception or they aren't actually the Rees line. I have come across many posts claiming the Rees line does have brown egg color genes in them.

I get so confused!!

 

[10AcreChick]

I'm still messing around Kevin's new site. Jury is out.....

What cha got in the 'bator 10Acre??

Sigh....another night of severe storms for us. Feedman, hope your ok up there. Get power yet?

Buff Orpingtons, Easter Eggers, and some mutts of both. Have three green eggs that I think are "olivie" in color, and might have a buff orpington daddy, as do some of the blue eggs, so excited to see if they hatch and if they are "olive eggers". (Not sure at what point I have the right to call them that)

Don't know much about this business, yet.

 

[rjohns39]

Folks,

I need some bator advice... A friend and fellow BYCer has suggested due to temperature swings in my house I need a cabinet bator. I use a heat pump as long as temps don't fall below 20 or so degrees, house is at a comfortable 63 degrees through the winter. When temps fall below, I use a wood stove to adjust for what the heat pump can't handle. Which means once I get the fire going, the temp could rise to 75 degrees and when the fire burns out over night temps can drop into the 50s. To solve this problem, my logic is to just not set eggs until late in winter or early spring.

That said, I also want to hatch chickens, ducks (sorry ralph) and turkeys. Some argue I need at least two if not three bators while others say one will do. I'd love to hear your expert or otherwise opinions... My friend in VA has a Brinsea 380 with the humidifier and hatches chickens and turkeys. and yes he only has one. after looking at it closely there's only a $200 difference between the 190 and 380, so I'm pretty certain that's why he went with the 380.

For what its worth, the more I read the more confused I become... Help!