My youngest is 12 now! 
My favorite pullet is Chicken Little.My youngest is 12 now!
Yup my Oliver egger had an Ameraucana rooster over a blue Marans hen. She is dun and blue, interesting color and good layer. I no longer have my Ameraucana rooster. I am raising CREAM LEGBARS and intending to breed all of my different breeds with him. I have Ameraucana, Marans, EE, cream brabanter, Hamburg, Welsummer, Polish turkens, and silkie cross with serama. Since my runs are limited in size due to the garden having the biggest area, I just want to raise mixed flock birds. My Ameraucans, Marans and Welsummer are all Divas and I have decided that I like crosses better. Many colored birds which lay many colored eggs.The most common and 'classic' cross for an olive egger is between a Marans x Ameraucana (or blue egg laying Easter Egger but less likely). Here is a chart that helps illustrate what is behind the true olive egg and the common lighter green egg.
Demosthine, If you bred that New Hampshire Cockerel to one of your Barred Rock hens you would create Sex Links....that is one of the many crosses hatcheries use.
Her sister are very comforatable in that position especially when they have dusted themselves and are laying in the sun. In fact that position is not unusual as I have seen other breeds do the same including my dumb Polish rooster.I have a question on chicken behavior? Has any one ever seen or know of a chicken that sleeps and rests like this?
When I first posted the picture I thought little of it. I have seen her laying like this often. I showed it to a lady today who moving home so she can have chickens again. She said she never seen anything like that and wondered if anything was wrong with her leg. Powder usually lay to the right with the left leg out, but then she will lay to the left with her light leg out.She has been giving me 5 to 6 eggs a week now, seems healthy.
the city that I live in does not allow livestock but many of us ignore that . One of my neighbors who has lived here all his life and is retired as I am has always had chickens and in fact has ROYAL PALM TURKEYS which are show type turkeys and they love to strutt their stuff. So yes it does take nerve to have chickens and post pictures of their beautiful eggs.
Mahonri had his rooster decrowed but it died that evening.
