California - Northern

[ronott1]

Quote: Chiqita has mine. The pullets are calm as can be. Not so much for the Cockerel!

They are a lot of fun. I can't comment on the laying rate but from what I can gather the laying rates, from most to least are:

Blue Egg Layers from the UofA
Cream Legbar
EE (a lot of variation based on crosses used)
Ameraucana and Araucana (pretty much tied)

CLs are one of the highest blue egg layers.

 

[PetRock]

Hmmmm someone from Great Britain might be terribly confused by that.

Thank you for the laugh!!!! Okay, let me rephrase that! Kelly, I'm counting on you to help sex my Welsummers!!!

 

[PetRock]

I have one Cream Legbar pullet who is approaching 1 yr old. She is a medium sized LF girl who lays a big, blue egg almost every day. She probably lays 5 in a week. She is not super friendly and hard to catch but no aggressive at all. She is a great forager and smart! She has figured out that she can fly to the top of the fence around our patio and down on the other side where the chick brooders are. She struts around eating my plants and showing off in front of the larger girls who can't make the jump! I have 2 more pullets in the brooder and I'm planning on getting a cockerel. They are quickly becoming one of my favorite breeds.

I also have a BW Ameraucana, a silver Ameraucana, and 2 lavender Ameraucanas. The BW and silver just turned 2 and are finally laying consistently. I had about given up on them, especially the tiny silver girl but this year they have suddenly become some of my best layers. Go figure! Maybe it's the King feed?! The 2 lavender girls are not even a year yet and great egg layers! Their eggs are almost as blue as the CL but much smaller. The silver and lavenders are small LF birds and lay smaller eggs. My Ams are not the friendliest birds except for 1 of the Lavenders who is always in my business but they aren't aggressive. Well, the BW sometimes comes along after the Enforcers have put one of the lower hens in their place and gets a peck or 2 in while she can.

 

[PetRock]

Chiqita has mine. The pullets are calm as can be. Not so much for the Cockerel!

They are a lot of fun. I can't comment on the laying rate but from what I can gather the laying rates, from most to least are:

Blue Egg Layers from the UofA
Cream Legbar
EE (a lot of variation based on crosses used)
Ameraucana and Araucana (pretty much tied)

CLs are one of the highest blue egg layers.

I NEED some of those blue egg layers from U of A!!!

 

[ronott1]

Quote: They will be the next project after the EO Basque. With 5 pullets and 2 cockerals I have a good start on them. I will be hatching out hundreds of them this summer....Hatching eggs should be available between hatches.

 

[debs_flock]

So ladies and gents if I were to one day have a broody hen or two and if at that time I had not been totally smitten with yet another breed I would like to know where I can get eggs and/or culls of the following:

Silver Penciled PR
Icelandics
Welsummers
Barnvelders
Creme Legbars
EOs
Golden Laced Brahmas...the newest addition to the ever expanding list

I think what I want to work on at this point is not breeding anything to SOP but rather obtaining eye candy for my yard and my egg basket. I grew up showing sheep and horses and am not interested at this point in showing chickens

Thanks I just want to know who to contact when the time comes

ETA prefer Yolo, Marin, Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties because it's an easy drive

I have these and am in El Dorado Co.

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Mine are friendly, rush up when treats are passed out and I've seen no aggression from the roos. I even have two roos living with the hens and they get along with each other.

I currently have four hens laying and get 2-4 eggs every day, most usually 3. They were slow to start, but within days went from a small pullet egg to a jumbo and have laid reliably ever since.

 

[18Peeps]

I have these and am in El Dorado Co.


Mine are friendly, rush up when treats are passed out and I've seen no aggression from the roos. I even have two roos living with the hens and they get along with each other.

I currently have four hens laying and get 2-4 eggs every day, most usually 3. They were slow to start, but within days went from a small pullet egg to a jumbo and have laid reliably ever since.

Do you have Barnevelders? Or are you speaking of Cream Legbars (the pics I've seen on Craigslist look beautiful)?

 

[tommysgirl]

Silver Penciled PR
Icelandics
Creme legbars


I have these and am in El Dorado Co.

Yay!!!!! Are your SPR from Cheryl's stock too?

 

[tommysgirl]

We will be breeding Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks as soon as we get our breeding pens finished. Our SPPRs came from Cheryl, Omelet Ranch, and are beautiful! So, hopefully we will soon have some hatching eggs available! Next year we might have Welsummers and Cream Legbars, too. I also encourage you to consider Langshans! They are beautiful, stately birds with mild temperaments!

This is exciting news! Where in the Bay Area are you? We are on the Peninsula and in the East Bay Fairly regularly. I am happy to know about the Langshans because I actually have them on my wish list too but I have two Australorps right now and am thinking COLOR!

 

[tommysgirl]

I looked at my Dorking eggs and there is definitely life developing in several of them. By comparison now what I saw in my home grown eggs looks sketchy but they are all brown and the Dorkings are obviously easier to look into. I am just using a flashlight so am giving the home grown eggs the benefit of the doubt. Not looking at a thing more till tomorrow after noon.

If I get an Ameraucana (off color) cockerel in this hatch of Chooks Chicks eggs I am going to keep him. Then when I get a dark egg layer or two I can make my own Olive Eggers That's the next phase in the pretty basket quest. It will commence after the dust and feathers settle following the hatch and arrival/brooding/rehoming of the new babies.