Arizona Chickens

[CaroleW]

Headed out to chicken chores before I have a zoom mtg. I just watched a YT video from www.youtube.com/@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy/videos using pots in a raised bed (she has hundreds of videos of gardening in plastic totes on a shoestring budget as raised beds and tower gardens).

So I got the idea of readying pots for spring and staging them under the barn roof where there is no gutter (I just keep maintaining a trench and sandbagging). They will catch the rain before it goes down the trench to the monsoon garden. I also need to rebag about 8 sandbags since they are in feed bags that are deteriorating.

 

[BlueBaby]

Did some reading and sounds like I can't get porcelain from lavender to oegb Spangles

If you already have a male for the Spangles, then you can run 2 flock's and have both color's of them then.

 

[ChicksnMore]

If you already have a male for the Spangles, then you can run 2 flock's and have both color's of them then.

I have a nice little flock of Spangles. I only have one pair of these and one pair of oegb crele though...so now I'm thinking I might put those together for lavender creles. Should be pretty and healthier birds then if I try to make a flock from single pairs of birds.

 

[BlueBaby]

I have a nice little flock of Spangles. I only have one pair of these and one pair of oegb crele though...so now I'm thinking I might put those together for lavender creles. Should be pretty and healthier birds then if I try to make a flock from single pairs of birds.

I guess that you might have some pictures to show us later as you get into that project?

 

[BlueBaby]

@ChicksnMore Couldn't you breed that pair of porcelains and then put the daughter's back to the rooster, and a son back to the mother?

 

[BlueBaby]

Well, I was just out there to check on the flock again, and spotted that hawk up in one of my next door neighbor's trees.

 

[ChicksnMore]

I guess that you might have some pictures to show us later as you get into that project?

Definitely!

@ChicksnMore Couldn't you breed that pair of porcelains and then put the daughter's back to the rooster, and a son back to the mother?

What I read says that oegb spangles don't actually carry the spangle genes, rather they carry mottled. Porcelain is from lavender over Millie fluer. My only Millie's are Olandsk Dwarfs which would be a long hard project to get back to an oegb type bird. I'll probably breed the spangles to the Isabel for a couple generations just to see what a lavender spangle looks like though. Lavender creles I could do easy with the birds I have already. I'd sure love some porcelain oegb's though

 

[BlueBaby]

Definitely!

What I read says that oegb spangles don't actually carry the spangle genes, rather they carry mottled. Porcelain is from lavender over Millie fluer. My only Millie's are Olandsk Dwarfs which would be a long hard project to get back to an oegb type bird. I'll probably breed the spangles to the Isabel for a couple generations just to see what a lavender spangle looks like though. Lavender creles I could do easy with the birds I have already. I'd sure love some porcelain oegb's though

I was just doing a google search to try to help you find some and I clicked on this link to a site I have never been to before. https://picclick.com/6-Porcelain-Mille-Fleur-Variety-Bearded-dAnvers-Bantam-193845937706.html

 

[ChicksnMore]

@BlueBaby
Thank you! I actually have a pair of porcelain d'uccles... they're pretty birds, but I'm more of an oegb lover. I just came in from looking at my birds and I'm confused because I see black and white tips. So I just posted to the genetics forum to try to make sure I'm not misunderstanding something. Genetics aren't my strong suit but I'm learning...just need to make sure I'm not getting it wrong, heh.

 

[BlueBaby]

@BlueBaby
Thank you! I actually have a pair of porcelain d'uccles... they're pretty birds, but I'm more of an oegb lover. I just came in from looking at my birds and I'm confused because I see black and white tips. So I just posted to the genetics forum to try to make sure I'm not misunderstanding something. Genetics aren't my strong suit but I'm learning...just need to make sure I'm not getting it wrong, heh.

I just now unburied myself from looking at all of the stuff there at that link that I gave you. I had to bookmark it.