A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[OneMountainAcres]

Aww! Congrats babies!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Mother nature decided to play an April Fool's day joke on us today...

So much for spring

 

[ketojenn]

Can someone remind me of what colors you get from crossing a royal palm with a bourbon red? I know I saw it somewhere, but can't recall now. The rp is the male.
Bonus points for pictures.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Can someone remind me of what colors you get from crossing a royal palm with a bourbon red? I know I saw it somewhere, but can't recall now. The rp is the male.
Bonus points for pictures.

I believe you would get red bronze males and golden Narragansett females. Don't quote me but I'm pretty sure.

 

[R2elk]

I believe you would get red bronze males and golden Narragansett females. Don't quote me but I'm pretty sure.

That is correct.

 

[Finnie]

Thanks Cindy, Memphis and Feedman

Americauna. I only have a pair, I'm hoping they multiply for me this year.

That would be nice. I hope their babies lay nice blue eggs for you. I gave up on blue eggers. I tried Ameraucanas, cream legbars and EEs. All green tinted except for two of the EEs. The EE with the best blue is still laying at 4 years old. But all her daughters laid green, which I guess I blame on their fathers. (CL and CL hybrids)

Now I am into dark brown eggs. I think I will put my Ameraucanas in with my Penedesenca rooster and make Olive Eggers.

My one turkey hen who is laying seems pretty agitated in the new pen. I think she wants to be free to find a better nesting site. Today's project is going to be leaning a board against the side of the pen to see if she will be happy to lay her eggs under it. I already put a blue tarp up to shelter one corner against wind and rain. My timing was good, because then after that we had that big snow.

 

[Finnie]

Mother nature decided to play an April Fool's day joke on us today...

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So much for spring

I bet you got the same storm system we had after it left us. Ours half-melted yesterday. Today is very cold though so far, so a lot is still left. But it will melt this afternoon when the temps go above freezing.

 

[ketojenn]

Thanks Cindy, Memphis and Feedman


That would be nice. I hope their babies lay nice blue eggs for you. I gave up on blue eggers. I tried Ameraucanas, cream legbars and EEs. All green tinted except for two of the EEs. The EE with the best blue is still laying at 4 years old. But all her daughters laid green, which I guess I blame on their fathers. (CL and CL hybrids)

Now I am into dark brown eggs. I think I will put my Ameraucanas in with my Penedesenca rooster and make Olive Eggers.

My one turkey hen who is laying seems pretty agitated in the new pen. I think she wants to be free to find a better nesting site. Today's project is going to be leaning a board against the side of the pen to see if she will be happy to lay her eggs under it. I already put a blue tarp up to shelter one corner against wind and rain. My timing was good, because then after that we had that big snow.

Apparently my cream legbars were too delicate to survive our winter, so I just have the one blue egg lady now.

 

[duluthralphie]

Apparently my cream legbars were too delicate to survive our winter, so I just have the one blue egg lady now.

You need tougher legbars.. mine did fine except for rooster combs and toes.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I'm still waiting for my ameraucanas to start laying so I can actually check their egg color. I started with true, well bred lavender ams that laid beautiful blue eggs and got some silkie feathered ams that laid green tinted eggs. I crossed the two lines together and back crossed to silkie feathered again to try to improve type and egg color. The one black split girl gives me gorgeous blue eggs and produced 3 black silkie feathered babies for me but I'm dying to see how the other girl's eggs look. They're taking forever to lay! I may back cross them one more time to the smooth feathered line but I'm still waiting to see.

My legbars laid mostly green tinted eggs but they did fine here in the winter. I just sold them all off because there was absolutely no demand for them. The sex linked olive eggers that I'm producing from their daughters (CL x Welbar) are doing well though. This year's are OE x BCM making crested, sex linked F2 olive eggers. I can't wait to see the eggs from them!