California - Northern

[debs_flock]

Quote: Yes, that's because hatchery EE aren't just non-standard Ameraucana. You can pretty much count on them being cross-breeds. I think green is their most likely egg color. Pink is usually just light brown with a bloom.

If you want blue, I'd always recommend going to someone that raises purebreds, recognized colors or not.

 

[PetRock]

Talking about Ameraucanas, my ditsy Blue Wheaten hen hatched out a Bresse chick yesterday! She is still sitting on an olive green egg that I am hoping will hatch today or tomorrow. (The Bresse seem to hatch a day earlier than all my other breeds.) Only 2 of her eggs made it to lock down. My 2 year old granddaughter broke 3 of them and scrambled 2 other ones which I am sure is what caused them to be early quitters. I have 30 eggs in my incubator that went into lock down last night. 14 are Pita Pintas and the other 16 are mixes from the farm. I am planning on slipped 2 or 3 of the farm chicks under her after they hatch and have fluffed up. I'm excited about the PPs! 14 were placed into the incubator and all 14 went into lock down!!!

 

[chiqita]

MY hatchery ee's lay HUGE blue eggs. One has a muff and one does not. Vonnie is my largest blue egg, and I have cream legbars. Her manly egg gene appears to be dominant as her boys ( My muffler line) father chick that also lay a honkin egg. Blue egg genes are problematic because they are dominant. You can be sure the parents have it, but you can NOT be sure they will pass it on. You only get all blue when both parents have a double blue gene . The blue gene mutation is close to the pea comb mutation so some think they are linked, but that is suspect to my limited knowledge of genetics.

Green eggs are even more problematic because once you get the pain gun gene in there ( what makes an egg brown) it is VERY hard to get it to go away. You have to do very selective breeding to get rid of it and get lucky to get double blue egg genes. That's hard to do at a hatchery.

I have had a weird chicken week. Our skunk has been replaced by a fox trying to dig out my quail pens. The girls are FREAKED out and have stopped laying almost entirely. Not good for quail egg orders. Mario almost caught the fox last night, hopefully it got scared and will go away. The dog has NO interest in the fox didn't even get up to go with Mario and check, very rare.

I also have a silkie pullet who has something up. She is thin and her eyelid looks like it was damaged. I thought it was overzelous mating or a fight but i brought her in and have been putting neosporin on it and nothing is happening. She is STARVING however and eating like crazy. I'm leaving her with the quails this week to see if she improves, and sending her poop in to see if my worming missed.

And on top of that! I had a marans boy get an huge wound on his foot. I soaked it and gave him antibiotics too, and it looks better . I put an angry bird band aid on him so he doesn't poop on it. We shall see how he does. Its chicken madness I say MADNESS!

Between that and people wanting a chicken delivery service, it has been an interesting 2 weeks.

 

[Nikon]

I did have a pink egg but that's not blue. I am so looking forward to an actual blue egg and will be disappointed if I don't see one. I only bought them for their blue eggs because that's what BYC people said. I will wait and see. If not I will be one disappointed EE owner.

Well we have plenty of chicken math enablers that will sell you some life Ameraucanas or blue Isbars or cream legbars! Guaranteed blue egg.

 

[ronott1]

Well we have plenty of chicken math enablers that will sell you some life Ameraucanas or blue Isbars or cream legbars! Guaranteed blue egg.

UofA blues too!

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Doesn't an isbar lay a green egg?

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Does anyone know where I can get ring neck pheasant? Hatching eggs or chicks?

 

[ronott1]

Does anyone know where I can get ring neck pheasant? Hatching eggs or chicks?

McMurray and Strombergs have them but they may not be available now.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

McMurray and Strombergs have them but they may not be available now.

Are they a bird that only lays in the spring?

 

[Nikon]

Doesn't an isbar lay a green egg?

Yeah, I think your right.... ignore me saying that.