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[juststruttin]

and just want to say publicly a HUGE thank you to Deann (@juststruttin ) for teaching me to process chickens today! with the help of a couple of her friends, we processed six giant orp boys, and one is now quietly resting in my 'fridge. it was a huge amount of work, i certainly have more appreciation for the ease of buying a whole chicken from Whole Foods now -- and am not entirely sure i can do it all myself someday (or whether i'll entirely want to!), but i'm delighted to have had just excellent guidance and instruction. and can't wait to try braising the bird!

It was nice hanging out with you today Laura. Can't wait to hear how the braising goes.

 

[tommysgirl]

Just got our first pullet egg from our Cream Legbar pair we have in the Isbar pen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soon as they mature enough and I know the Isbar roo has been mating them, walla, Super Blue sex link eggers, according to nicalandia.
We had a couple of Blue Andalusian hens for a while last year, they sure were pretty, they got me dreaming about a blue chicken that lays a blue egg. We ended up parting with the Andalusian hens then I found the Isbars. I really like the BBS look and the other day I learned about the IBXCL blue sex link cross. Maybe dreams do come true.

now that sounds super cool and like another reason to take a drive to Fort Bragg. And yea a Blue roo over a barred hen will produce blue girls and blue barred boys

@lawatt I was talking about your Birchen Marans eggs but seems like @Audio51 was right and Beakface was just oooooing and aweing over the littles and not feeling overly like being a mama. She is not broody...but I still have hope. I am sure that at some point it will work out that you will have eggs at the same time as I have a broody.

 

[juststruttin]

It gets easier but is always a bit solom.

I agree. I find processing them emotionally draining. These sweet boys were almost 7 months old because I could not get myself to process them any sooner. I kept holding out hope that I could find a few more homes so they would not have to be processed.

I have 12 Bresse roosters that will need to be processed in 4-6 weeks, and then some Freedom Ranger X Sulmtaler crosses after that. I am a wanna be sustainable farmer but am not quit sure I am cut out for the processing part. I really wish there was a place to bring them to have the processed. I would happily pay the $5 not to have to do it myself.

 

[chickee]

They have to be at least 75% silkie to have silkies feathers but they need some work on type if you cared.

Sizzles are supposed to be silkies in everything but the hooked feather and frizzle gene. In fact a fb site I'm on is doing a point by point overview of colors and sop starting next week if you want o learn more!

I have a question for you

I just did a test hatch (set two tiny pullet eggs) from my Silkies. The chicks hatched yesterday and this morning. Both appear to be partridge which was a surprise! That means they are not porcelain x porcelain or white x porcelain, so the only other explanation is they are out of my blue Silkie pullet x porcelain rooster? I didn't know that those two colors would make partridge! Dang they are cute!!! Once they dry I will take pictures to post.

 

[JDXX]

Post some pictures!

Will the isbars make the eggs a bit green?

Thank you,
We need to take pictures of lots of stuff today, I will post some up later. I dont know about the color, nicalandia said they would be blue. Time will tell.

 

[JDXX]

now that sounds super cool and like another reason to take a drive to Fort Bragg. And yea a Blue roo over a barred hen will produce blue girls and blue barred boys


Yeah I am super stoked with this, and thank you further confirming the sex linked traits of this cross.

Figure another couple of months, then it will be time to come over and escape the heat for a couple of days anyway right?

 

[sewandgrow]

The 75% is good to know and haha no I don't really care...these guys are just for fun and broodiness. Isn't their crest all wrong? I see silkies with the turban looking poofs and these gals look like they are sporting mohawks. It really makes no difference to me but if I ever hatch their eggs I would like to be able to tell people if they are mixes.

Julie' feathers are not silkie but they are curled and in every other way: comb, toes feathered feet and shape she looks like Gracie Belle...what does that tell me?? Sorry to be a pest I have a thing about accuracy and I don't want to call them something they aren't.

The peas round here...in addition to being feed thieves and porch poopers will display and shake it like a polaroid picture for the chicken hens when there isn't a pea hen willing to "eyeball their width". mostly it's the youngsters without the enormous train. Ray would NEVER have let the peacocks close enough. Ozzie and the General are like "what evs" I miss my old guy.

I so know what you mean about accurancy. Even if I didn't care personally I would never want to misrepresent something to someone else so if the eggs aren't marked in the incubator even though I might be sure it is a pure BCMs I put the chicks in with the "colored eggs layers" not breed specific & the only cross I do is the BCM/AM for OEs. If in doubt they go as generic.....LOL

 

[sewandgrow]

Just got our first pullet egg from our Cream Legbar pair we have in the Isbar pen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soon as they mature enough and I know the Isbar roo has been mating them, walla, Super Blue sex link eggers, according to nicalandia.
We had a couple of Blue Andalusian hens for a while last year, they sure were pretty, they got me dreaming about a blue chicken that lays a blue egg. We ended up parting with the Andalusian hens then I found the Isbars. I really like the BBS look and the other day I learned about the IBXCL blue sex link cross. Maybe dreams do come true.

Hey Jerry how about a blue True Ameraucana?? Blue hen blue egg my B/B/S AM pen produces very nice blue eggs. I traded my last blue hen for a much needed rooster for a different breeding pen but have a black AM rooster & a blue AM rooster over some black girls. That is the same pen I keep 2 of my Blue Marans in to create my OEs all brown eggs are OE hatching eggs & all blue eggs are true AMs. It works out well.

 

[ronott1]

Hey Jerry how about a blue True Ameraucana?? Blue hen blue egg my B/B/S AM pen produces very nice blue eggs. I traded my last blue hen for a much needed rooster for a different breeding pen but have a black AM rooster & a blue AM rooster over some black girls. That is the same pen I keep 2 of my Blue Marans in to create my OEs all brown eggs are OE hatching eggs & all blue eggs are true AMs. It works out well.

If you use a Blue or black AM Rooster and CL Hens, you would get Sex linked Guaranteed super blue egg layers. They would be sexlinked too. The boys would be black barred with a white spot on the head and the girls would be black.

 

[JDXX]

Interesting information thank you, we are still very new at this and appreciate all the info we can get. We are going to see what the IBXCL turns out like and go from there. I had no information or idea of this cross when I selected our breeds, it just turned out this way. Now I want to see where my instincts have led us.