HOME INVASION !! I was cleaning and left the door open again. Powder decided it was a good place to take a nap. She likes laying sort of on her side with one leg out. They know I do not let them in, but every chance they get they come inside.
I guest I will have to keep cleaning supply's at the door if I can't remember to close the screen door.
Some how your comment that lice attack sick birds makes sense to me because when the body is worn down (the immune system specifically) the opportunistic mites, microbes and other parasites do invade because the weakened are easier to attack.
Ok! Now wait a minute? What hen lays olive green? Where can I get that hen & chocolate color egg layer? Possibly by next week?? Babies would be the best since ours are hatching next week.every day is Easter when you have chickens. I need to get new pictures of my wonderful LEGBARS I forget how old they are now but it must be close to four months. They have such calm and yet curious personality.
The dark browns are probably Marans. The chocolate brown is usually trademarked by the Black Copper Maran, though others may claim them, too. BostonBryce and DesertMarcy are the only ones in the state that I could find breeding BCMs.
The medium dark brown, like the second from the bottom in the middle, is most likely a Maran. That is the same color as my Birchen Maran's eggs. They are a beautiful speckled brown.
I know several sites were selling "Olive Eggers," but the never mentioned what the breeds were crossed with. I have yet to find a good site for that information. CvoNick mentioned the BCM too over New Hampshire's to make Rhode Islands, I think. But I haven't delved in to that part of chickens, yet.
