BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[JRNash]

I just noticed that this guy was NOT one of my Lf Cornish
Any ideas what he is?

 

[JRNash]

 

[hellbender]

Not a glimmer...but some one here will likely have seen the like.

I forgot where you bought from...is it a place that throws in extras? Could it be some sort of Langshan?

 

[JRNash]

I looked on Macmurray's site. I think it's a dark Brahma!! If so it should make an interesting addition to my cross's

 

[DesertChic]

I think you might be a bit like me. I'll be 66 yrs old in August and I'm still a kid at heart when it comes to chicks. I spend 'far more time than I'll admit', sitting among the 8week-olds, just chumming up with them. Many of them come to me immediately and fly upon my head, shoulders and knees, pecking the hell out of me, all the while. It does give me the time that is needed to watch for flaws and merits but I really enjoy the time too.

I spend at least an hour, perhaps two, watching the ones that just arrive....I love to watch them scamper and bump chests...even at that age. And these are ALL supposed to be pullet. Yep, they are just liable to bump chests as cockerels. I HOPE !!!

LOL! I'm glad to hear I'm in good company with habits like this. My husband and son both laugh at me for how much time I spend with the chickens. I think it actually annoyed my son for quite a while, but this summer he's started to spend more time with them too, and now it's not uncommon for me to come home from work to find him in the back yard carrying one of our favorite roosters around as he watches the other birds do their thing. There's nothing like "chicken therapy" to inject a little calm into a crazy day.

 

[JRNash]

I don't watch tv. Im by myself most of the time. Its pretty therapeutic for me.lol

 

[JRNash]

My 16 yr old daughter named it Ponyo.lol

 

[HeritageGoose13]

Are you looking for blue, green, olive, a deep chocolate brown, speckled, cream, white, brown, pink?

Exactly which color(s) you want will help people give you relevant information

Which ones lay speckled or pink eggs?

 

[collie1470]

The occassional EE lays pinkish eggs. Welsummer hens sometimes lay speckled eggs. I'm pretty sure there were some other breeds, but that's the only one I know off the top of my head.

 

[DesertChic]

The occassional EE lays pinkish eggs. Welsummer hens sometimes lay speckled eggs. I'm pretty sure there were some other breeds, but that's the only one I know off the top of my head.

I have a NN Turken that lays pink eggs, and one of my Bielefelder females hatched from a pink egg so I'm hoping the trait was passed on to her.