Arkansas Blue egg layers

[enola]

Is that a Mountain Lion I see in the brush?

You are looking too hard!

 

[Manningjw]

Do most of the A/B cockerels have red leakage? I have seen quite a few pics posted with it but not all.

 

[Metella]

ha ha there have been sightings around - but the state wildlife officials swear they are mis-Id's bobcats ....

My biggest predator issue would be weasels - and I keep a sharp eye out for signs and build everything to anti-weasel size.

I'm not sure I would call that chestnut - pictures aren't super - but it is more a brown color - and none of that on my hen just the roo. Good question - if there starts to be a color standard.

I personally LIKE the chestnut color on the cclb - but I know that is being culled .... I wouldn't want just another barred looking bird ...

 

[Manningjw]

ha ha there have been sightings around - but the state wildlife officials swear they are mis-Id's bobcats ....

My biggest predator issue would be weasels - and I keep a sharp eye out for signs and build everything to anti-weasel size.

I'm not sure I would call that chestnut - pictures aren't super - but it is more a brown color - and none of that on my hen just the roo. Good question - if there starts to be a color standard.

I personally LIKE the chestnut color on the cclb - but I know that is being culled .... I wouldn't want just another barred looking bird ...

One of my all time favorite colors of chickens is what I would best describe as a blue colored Black sex link where the red leaks in the head/chest feathers and is outlines in a deeper blue. I am hoping to get that kind of coloring in the olive eggers when I cross AB's with the red brown egg layers.

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[Metella]

That sounds pretty - you don't happen to have a pic do you ?

Wonder how lacing got started ? (not saying that was lacing - it just made me think - hate always go back and edit for clarity - I guess the nature of so many strangers interacting) chestnut lined in dark grey would look good on these birds

but I'm not into starting anything new at all - just to get a strong and diverse flock well established.

 

[Manningjw]

Sadly I don't remember where I saw the bird! I don't think it would breed true, but it would be fun for my Olive Egger pen that i don't expect to breed true.

This is the closest I could come, just imagine this guy with blue instead of black plumage.



There is also this guy with blue but the coloring isn't quite what I mean. The best way I can describe it is a Black Sex Link hen but with blue instead of black.

 

[Manningjw]

Again, blue instead of black if you can imagine it. I wish I could find the blue hen I saw back in the day. I don't have any good pictures of my Olive Egger girl who was black with red but if she had the blue gene it would have been what I am looking for (she was taken by a raccoon so I cannot get another pic unfortunately).

Also, none of these pictures are mine, just what i could find that looked similar not sure who's birds they are

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[Metella]

I think that would be a lovely color ! I think I can imagine it ....

 

[caychris]

I'm hoping to get some of these birds this year from @ronott1 and I have CLB birds already so some of the crosses seem interesting.

I've read a bit about the A/B roo over CLB hen cross but what about the CLB Roo over A/B hen?

I am interested in improving my CLB on their own but really only interested in the A/B as blue egg layers. (Though keeping a breeding line of them may be an option)

 

[ronott1]

I'm hoping to get some of these birds this year from @ronott1 and I have CLB birds already so some of the crosses seem interesting.

I've read a bit about the A/B roo over CLB hen cross but what about the CLB Roo over A/B hen?

I am interested in improving my CLB on their own but really only interested in the A/B as blue egg layers. (Though keeping a breeding line of them may be an option)

It would work the same but the chicks would not be sex linked.