Blue Egg Layers from University of Arkansas

[ronott1]

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I am making arrangements with a local farm to keep my roosters so I should be able to start up a breeding program.

I already have EO Marraduna Basque and yesterday I picked up two Partridge Penedesenca chicks. These will give me a great Blue egg layer that will hopefully be more heat hardy than Cream Legbars.

Very exciting.

Ron

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Thank you!

I am making arrangements with a local farm to keep my roosters so I should be able to start up a breeding program.

I already have EO Marraduna Basque and yesterday I picked up two Partridge Penedesenca chicks. These will give me a great Blue egg layer that will hopefully be more heat hardy than Cream Legbars.

Very exciting.

Ron

If you are planning on having weekend romantic visits between your hens and roosters, I would suggest bringing the males to the hens. Hens tend to quit laying when their routine is messed with. The males will be more "romantic" if allowed to be apart from them some. May only take a few minutes for each male to do his job and be able to return to the farm.

 

[ronott1]

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Thank you!

I am making arrangements with a local farm to keep my roosters so I should be able to start up a breeding program.

I already have EO Marraduna Basque and yesterday I picked up two Partridge Penedesenca chicks. These will give me a great Blue egg layer that will hopefully be more heat hardy than Cream Legbars.

Very exciting.

Ron

If you are planning on having weekend romantic visits between your hens and roosters, I would suggest bringing the males to the hens. Hens tend to quit laying when their routine is messed with. The males will be more "romantic" if allowed to be apart from them some. May only take a few minutes for each male to do his job and be able to return to the farm.

Thank you for the advice! I will bring the roosters for a visit and will have to get them back quickly--Animal control caught me a couple of weeks ago..

Ron

 

[caj1985]

Don't tell anyone, but I have UA Coronation Sussex eggs in my incubator with development. Their Delaware is being redeveloped from the sexlinked, or so I heard.

Our Blue eggs have some veining but just to early to tell for sure what is happening.

I have some of each also. We'll keep it quiet. I'm going to try to get back up there later and get some of the Brown Leghorns they are crossing with the brown leghorn style blue egg layers.

 

[banjoejoe4783]

I have some of each also. We'll keep it quiet. I'm going to try to get back up there later and get some of the Brown Leghorns they are crossing with the brown leghorn style blue egg layers.

HEY HEY HEY NOW this is not right the UofA coronation susexs came from me but i did not think that eggs would have been give out so soon

i knew that DR bramwell would give eggs away but just did not expect it this soon

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Yeah- those pictures are Ameraucanas, and the eggs are from Gabbard Farms blue ameraucanas. Who said anything about non-SOP leghorns?

So basically, U of A doesn;'t known the difference between ameraucanas and araucanas, and they are working on a blue egg layer for commercial egg farms?
Just one more way to make things even more confusing for people that don't know what true ameraucanas or araucanas are, it sounds like. Kind of the opposite of what BYC promotes, eh?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Seems kind of like a pointless endeavor...

BUT! Maybe in a few years we will start seeing blue eggs in grocery stores, that might be cool!

I guess I better start reading this thread. Not sure what all the fuss is about

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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I thought they were yours, but was not sure. I only got 11 eggs. We have 2 young cockerels so hoping for all pullets. I will probably pass them all on to a youth, if one here wants them.

 

[ronott1]

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Hi jason!

No, not working on commercial blue layers. This was a special project at a University Poultry Department and has apparently been dismantled and all remaining eggs have been given away.

They do know what an Araucana is. The original poster was incorrect.

Ron

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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The fuss is about a beautiful new breed (or else a developing new breed) of blue egg layer.