California - Northern

[gryeyes]

A bit of silliness... DH asked me to listen to a song playing on the radio yesterday. He said they were playing my song.

Oooh, thanks for sharing this! I'm gonna be be-bopping to it all day, now.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Sorry to hear of the loss of Fronzy, sounds like he left big shoes to fill.

Chiqita, he'll show up just as you sit down to dinner if your luck is like mine.

Great news on the many new fluffy butts joining the ranks and the wonderful coops being built.

 

[Nikon]

Well that's a bummer.   I loved his name!  Not often you remember one particular rooster of someone else's, but The Fonz?!?!?  Who can't remember that? Well, maybe anyone younger than 30.....

Lol! Hey now I'm 27 loved the Fonz. He actually didn't have a name but after house sitting for his owners I dubbed him the Fonz. He would make like a warning sound that reminded me okie dokie Fonzy saying "hey".

 

[lawatt]

first two (of six) chicks have hatched! got home early from work and found TWO little chicks wobbling around, I'm pretty sure one is one of the four SFH, the other seems to be the SFH/CL cross -- so excited to see them!


eleanor and her new baby chick!



the only picture i could get of the two babies without upsetting eleanor too much -- the chipmunk stripes of the one on the left suggest it's the CL/SFH cross, and if the auto-sexing traits hold with a mutt, she should be a little girl!



the SFH chick, while mama in the background tries to show it how to eat -- it prefers to pose!

four more eggs to go!

 

[chickee]

Help me understand? My bantam BLRW are blue/blue. So they are BBS...well...I got the mix chick. Now I have a pink skinned black chick. (this is really weird y'all) So are the blacks kicked off from the BBS BLRW - ALL black or black with lacing? I am clueless.

Hope I am understanding your question . . . Yes, BLRW do not breed true, so you get blue laced, black laced and splash laced reds when breeding blue x blue.

I do not think the black came from the Wyandottes. Must have come from your rooster. I have never gotten a black chick from a BLRW cross. Unlikely if it is solid black that it will develop lacing, just color leakage.

If you end up hatching chicks with any of these colorations then they will likely have lacing~

Black Laced Red Wyandotte chicks~



Blue Laced Red Wyandotte chicks~



These are bantam blue laced red and splash laced red chicks~ I have not hatched any black laced red bantams yet~

 

[chickee]

Loving everyone's coop pics and baby chick pix!

I can't believe how fast ours are growing! We made them a chicken playpen and got them a larger feeder and waterer so they aren't so crowded and we don't have to fill them 2-3 times a day anymore. We have found a home for one of our 2 roosters, when he grows up.

Our friends lost their rooster, The Fonz. He died valiantly protecting his girls from a fox and somehow managed to escape the coop and go after it. Glad I took photos of him when I did.

R.I.P. Fozny.

That is too bad! I have lost several roosters that were protecting the flock, so I know how sad that can be

Have you decided which rooster chick is going to be his replacement?

 

[chiqita]

Yeah.... Autosexing doesn't hold true to the next gen.....
But! If they get a salmon Brest you have a girl. If that holds. I don't know about sfh color genetics.

 

[zooweemama]

Hope I am understanding your question . . . Yes, BLRW do not breed true, so you get blue laced, black laced and splash laced reds when breeding blue x blue.

I do not think the black came from the Wyandottes. Must have come from your rooster. I have never gotten a black chick from a BLRW cross. Unlikely if it is solid black that it will develop lacing, just color leakage.

If you end up hatching chicks with any of these colorations then they will likely have lacing~

Black Laced Red Wyandotte chicks~



Blue Laced Red Wyandotte chicks~



These are bantam blue laced red and splash laced red chicks~ I have not hatched any black laced red bantams yet~

I have 2 roosters- my banty BLRW and my giant Marans. That's all I have running around.

I have 2 sizzle roos penned up (one is a blue).

I have 1 banty BLRW hen.

So it's only her eggs I collected (they are tiny)- I am getting black skinned, 4 toed, hairy footed chicks with this hatch. The one that I thought was pure...I checked more thoroughly as she has fluffed out and she is clearly not pure BLRW. I need to get some decent pics. But the second chick that hatched her skin is not black black like the first chick's is.

This is driving me crazy! lol

 

[lawatt]

Yeah.... Autosexing doesn't hold true to the next gen.....
But! If they get a salmon Brest you have a girl. If that holds. I don't know about sfh color genetics.

ok, i will hold off in assigning gender -- it has clear chipmunk stripes, nice dark eyeliner, and no spot on the head -- but will wait and see! they are both very active and curious so far -- and there are three more SFHs and a birchen marans left to hatch.

yay!!

 

[lawatt]

and actually, as i look at the size of the chicks vs. the lip on their nesting box, i'm going to have to move them -- i assume i should wait until ALL the eggs have hatched? (rather than moving now with two hatched and four to go?)