California - Northern

[walterab]

We hit Walmart at times when headed to Brookings in the summer. CC a very nice area.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Finally, rain instead of snow or ice falling here!

Hope it heads south for everyone wanting rain.

 

[juststruttin]

fantastic -- i'd be happy to help organize, just let me know!

and hurrah, got my first egg today from my lone araucana pullet, she's been -- by FAR -- the slowest-developing of last year's chicks, i think she's around 35 weeks old -- but it was worth the wait, as it's a gorgeous color:

hers is the one in the center, a really *bright* turquoise. now i'm starting to wonder what a duckwing araucana/isbar cross would look like...? might have to find out!

(in case of interest, the other eggs, going clockwise from the top, are from the isbar/marans OE, two SPPRs, then an Amelia egg at the bottom, another SPPR, and a marans egg)

Lovely collection of eggs.

I collected 18 eggs to set tonight and dropped the entire carton..... I kid you not. Some did not break, but I am pretty sure they are scambled. If I set them, will they make frizzled chicks? Just curious.

 

[juststruttin]

Finally, rain instead of snow or ice falling here!

Hope it heads south for everyone wanting rain.

OMG blow it south please.

 

[juststruttin]

Okay, I feel I have made some pretty good friends in this Nor. Cal group ..... so I need your honest opinion...


Wait for it.........




Should I buy a pair of Kune Kune pigs?




Oh shoot..... I just remembered, you're my friends that always enable me.......



So lay it on.



Tell me to "Go For It"

 

[lawatt]

Okay, I feel I have made some pretty good friends in this Nor. Cal group ..... so I need your honest opinion...


Wait for it.........




Should I buy a pair of Kune Kune pigs?




Oh shoot..... I just remembered, you're my friends that always enable me.......



So lay it on.



Tell me to "Go For It"

YES!!

 

[farmhand]

...

Since there are 8 brown egg genes the shades of green will get lighter as you loose those genes, and the shade will get darker if you add those genes in. But you can loose the blue in one generation - giving you brown eggs of different shades. Most F1 are crossed between Homozygous blue to homozygous brown - all children get one copy of each gene. I suppose I could change the brown eggs to half brown (because they only get one copy).. but I would have to slice that half in 8ths.. an have 32? 64? ??? different possibilities? Yikes.. This was for the Blue egg gene.. the brown one would be too complex.. You do have a very slim chance of getting white eggs from crossing OEs.. but that is such a small chance.. teeny tiny..

The above eggs are from two EE's from Belt Hatchery taken from the same lot. I'm not sure I understood your last sentence @ChickNmamma . Does this white laying EE apply with what you are saying?

 

[farmhand]

Should I buy a pair of Kune Kune pigs?

Have they been breed to look like their smiling or are they naturally that way? They sure are cute!

 

[member 142084]

We need rain bad.

 

[OR4-hmom]

I had to Google kune kune pigs, I'm not familiar with pigs. They are adorable! I'd have trouble stopping at two cuties.