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[Hangtown Farms]

glad it is well zoowemama

 

[zooweemama]

After a few hours of separation I put the feisty Marans back in with the flock again (gotta love time outs) and now they are fine. Although Samson (who got beat up) was giving him stink eye for a good 30 minutes. No more fights. I hung out for a blistering hour in almost 100 degrees to make sure lol. I have a little 'shelter' made from a swimming pool with frozen soda bottles under there to help keep them cool...oh no...they go sit in the shade and pant and give themselves dust baths. How are your birds staying cool?

 

[ronott1]

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Wait until night time and put the basque sister back with her brother and sisters. Keep the Barnies separate for a couple of days using the plastic mesh.

The Barnies need to be 3/4s the size of the Basque. They should be close I think. The only problem might be if you have a rooster with the Barnies.

Have a great trip back and don't worry about putting them together. It's not going to be that bad.

Ron

 

[ronott1]

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To get green egg layers you can get some of my Cream Legbars next year and cross them with your Marans Rooster. They should lay olive colored eggs.

Seriously though, you take a blue layer and cross it with a brown breed. brown and blue make green. The blue color of the shell mixes with the brown coating. Yes, you can get different colors of green by mixing different blue shell colors with lighter and darker brown laying breeds.

What you will wind up with is an easter egg basket of varying colored eggs.

Very cool.

Ron

 

[ronott1]

Hello NorCaL!

Anyone know of any local markets where I can bring my roosters to sell off? It was my first season incubating and I ended up with more roosters than hens! It's unfortunate because the roosters have more personality than the hens. They've begun crowing at about 16 weeks of age and I can't keep that much testasterone in the flock.
I've 16 week old Bearded SL Polish(male) x Ameruacanas(female) cockerels. They're playful and handle really well and they have been raised on organic non-medicated feed. The ones with the darker coloring and black tails come from a Green Egg Laying Ameraucana Hen, the lighter ones from the Blue Egg Laying Ameraucana Hen. You can see their parents on my profile page. We have 7 cockerels left!


I also have 16 week old Sizzle Cockerels, (9th generation now!)





You all have first dibs, of course

Please PM me for any inquiries.

Thank you very much!

CHAD

Those are really something!

I know of one in the Modesto area. Wolftracks takes hers there. I don't know of any around here.

Craigslist?

Ron

 

[Hangtown Farms]

To get green egg layers you can get some of my Cream Legbars next year and cross them with your Marans Rooster. They should lay olive colored eggs.

Seriously though, you take a blue layer and cross it with a brown breed. brown and blue make green. The blue color of the shell mixes with the brown coating. Yes, you can get different colors of green by mixing different blue shell colors with lighter and darker brown laying breeds.

What you will wind up with is an easter egg basket of varying colored eggs.

Very cool.

Ron

I have 1/2 Cream Legbar 1/2 welsummer/penedesenca rooster chicks I am getting rid of.. Real pretty and about 4 weeks old

Just Sayin

 

[ronott1]

Does anyone know the name of the place in sacramento that will process chickens. I called last summer and now I can't remember the name. They had a 10 chicken minimum supposedly for $25 for 10 at least last summer. Anyone know the name?

Hi Jeff,

Are you taking the Meat bird in that you hatched from Elvirta?

Ron

 

[Hangtown Farms]

one day 3 eggs

 

[WasabiChicki]

one day 3 eggs

Beautiful! I love that I got a white egg (3 days in a row now) for that reason; 3 eggs, 3 colors... sooooo pretty!)
Does anyone know who has that incredible avatar pic of the circle of eggs, every color of the egg rainbow? It's such a great picture!

 

[WasabiChicki]

The brown coat is one of the last things to happen in the egg cycle. The eggs are usually darkest after a molt. Then they lay lighter eggs at the end of the laying period before the next molt. The Molts get to be more frequent and harder as the hen ages, so less eggs are laid because of that. The brown egg layer that is laying the white egg may be getting ready to molt, or did she just finish a molt?

You are getting about a 70% egg laying rate. That is good, especially with older hens. A lot of heritage breeds will lay 5 or 6 per week, so won't lay every day of the week. Aveca says you can flip the hen over and check her vent. If it is moist and large(compare with a Hen you know is laying) then she is laying.

Ok, yes they can lay more than one egg in a day. They lay an egg on average every 23 to 25 hours, so rarely they can lay one early in morning and then later in the evening the next day.

I don't think mine have ever done that. It's more likely with Hybrids and I only have two of those. The best I have gotten is 10 eggs out of 12 layers then the next day I might get 6 out od 12. That reminds me, I need to get more egg customers.....

Whew...Ron

Ur are truly a wealth of knowledge, Ron! I have to admit that I barely use the rest of this site anymore since I know I get such accurate & timely responses in this thread.

Love Nor Cal! You all are the reason I have been checking into this site everyday instead of facebook

Here are some other questions that I could go research but am sure I will get a reply in Ron's so awesomely simple way or from someone else's experience here:

a) How long is a hen fertile once the roo has done his job? And from the day of insemination, when is the first fertile egg laid?
b) Does it have to be the hen that is a blue egg layer, bred w/ a brown laying breed of roo to get green eggs or visa versa or does it matter??

Did I mention how much I am loving this thread right now & EVERYONE IN IT?? (And no, it's not the moonshine talking... I am so so grateful for real!!)