Arkansas Blue egg layers

[1muttsfan]

Yes I would only be interested in producing an F1 cross. A black rooster would be ideal - but I have not seen any pictures of any yet, anyone got one?

 

[Manningjw]

Hey very off topic question here but how does your blue heeler get along with your chickens? I want a dog that is good with my flock and haven't made a decision yet on breed. My girlfriend is really wanting a corgi which is another herding type.

 

[1muttsfan]

She pretends they aren't there

 

[caj1985]

Just wanted to add a short note to Ron's statement. These birds also have a tendency to pip and then just continue to make a bigger hole until they can burst out instead of zipping. It is one of the oddest things I have seen in my limited hatching experience.

 

[Manningjw]

Just wanted to add a short note to Ron's statement. These birds also have a tendency to pip and then just continue to make a bigger hole until they can burst out instead of zipping. It is one of the oddest things I have seen in my limited hatching experience.

Thanks for joining the discussion! Also thanks for the permission to use your photos. Hoping to have my own pictures to add in a month or so

 

[draye]

Thanks for the new thread.
I hatched out some AB's right after the eggs were released (2012 I think). I didn't keep any but gave them away. Wished now I had kept them.

 

[1muttsfan]

Thanks caj for the use of your pictures.


Candled last night and 10/13 shipped eggs are developing - still with shipped eggs I know better than to count on too much. Several had very loose air cells, and one I cracked during unwrapping

- I waxed it and it is developing, though.

 

[1muttsfan]

Completed my hatch today. 3/13 - not great, but better than I have had from some shipped eggs. They hatched over a 2 day spread, and the last to hatch popped out of the egg like Athena springing from Zeus's brow, after lingering pipped since the evening before. She squealed and tried to stand as soon as she escaped the shell, then when her curious sister came over ninja-kicked her halfway across the incubator. My kind of chick.

She is the one that has not fluffed yet. Complaining loudly.

 

[ronott1]

Completed my hatch today. 3/13 - not great, but better than I have had from some shipped eggs. They hatched over a 2 day spread, and the last to hatch popped out of the egg like Athena springing from Zeus's brow, after lingering pipped since the evening before. She squealed and tried to stand as soon as she escaped the shell, then when her curious sister came over ninja-kicked her halfway across the incubator. My kind of chick.

She is the one that has not fluffed yet. Complaining loudly.

Congratulations!

They are very cute.

 

[DCchicken]

I have also noticed a bad hatch rate. I got 4 out of 22 from shipped eggs. And one of those has an eye problem and probably will have to be culled.