Arkansas Blue egg layers

[Manningjw]

The chicks grow up so fast!




Several of the birds that are from my favorite hen look like they are laced blue. Again, really glad I asked you guys about the colors before selling chicks and kept the very very dark blue chick, here is what her feathering looks like now.

 

[Metella]

Super pretty ! connect those parent birds again next year !

 

[Manningjw]

Super pretty ! connect those parent birds again next year !

Thanks! The hen that produced this chick is one of my oldest birds. Unfortunately her eggs are unlikely to be viable for hatching much longer, she is over 3 years old now and starting laying eggs very early in life. I will keep her as long as she lives though because she is all around my best hen and started me on my project. Maybe every so often I can hatch some of her eggs like after a molt or early spring.

I'll take a look at the little cockerels and see if any of them show any lacing, it's mostly this very dark pullet that shows it best. I am not even sure it is true lacing but it looks like it will be?

 

[1muttsfan]

I have one little roo that is quite a bit darker than the others. Looks like I got 6 pullets and 6 cockerels. I am going to cut down to 3 cockerels this weekend. Metalla, I got one little blue cockerel from the eggs I got from you, just what I was looking for! I'll reevaluate the boys in the spring for the breeder. I will keep 3 blue boys, the splash are very light colored, very flighty, and I want to breed back to darker stock.

 

[caj1985]

I have one little roo that is quite a bit darker than the others. Looks like I got 6 pullets and 6 cockerels. I am going to cut down to 3 cockerels this weekend. Metalla, I got one little blue cockerel from the eggs I got from you, just what I was looking for! I'll reevaluate the boys in the spring for the breeder. I will keep 3 blue boys, the splash are very light colored, very flighty, and I want to breed back to darker stock.

I don't know what it is about the splash, but all of the ones I had were much flightier than the blues and blacks. The only other splash birds I ever raised were splash Marans and all of that breed I ever raised were super calm. Only milder tempered I had were my RI's from Jim Heinz & my Coronation Sussex.

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi Crystal

 

[caj1985]

Hi, Mary! How's the weather up there? It's nice and muggy down here in the South. LOL

 

[1muttsfan]

Cool and dry this year, having to water the gardens all the time. Hoping for temps at least back up into the 70's this week. Chickens are doing great!

 

[Metella]

Love my darker greys. My roo finally was still long enough for a pic

 

[1muttsfan]

Pretty