California - Northern

[lawatt]

So, to satisfy my color "need"
I think I am going to sell a couple of groups of pullets in the spring..a colored, a white and a brown egg layer. I want to add BBS Ameraucauna for blue eggs and focus just on CA Grey and Dorkings as my white egg layers. Ever since @lawatt inspired me with her silver flock I have been plotting to find good homes for everyone (except Willa) who doesn't fit into my red, white, blue, silver, grey and splash color scheme.l

when @lawatt has Isbar and birchen Marans available...I may be persuaded to add a few of those too

awww... right now i've got a broody girl sitting on 7 eggs, three are birchen marans and the other four are a cross of birchen marans x isbar/marans cross, so who knows what THOSE chicks will be like!! my few isbar girls are still chicks now, so they'll be slower in coming...

 

[Lucie Blume]

Hello,

I'm on the lookout for Frizzles. Or Sizzles.

I would love some frizzled bantam Cochins. Or Seramas.

Or...?

I am having difficulty turning up any leads. I do not have the means to hatch eggs.

I live in the Santa Cruz area. I couldn't take a roo because we have one too many right now and need to maintain a harmonious coop.

Can anyone direct me towards a reasonably local scource or someone who ships?

Thank you.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

I have olive eggers that Made with my Easter egger hens and a marans rooster. They lay a beautiful olive egg!
If these olive eggers are In with their and rooster will the next eggs that are hatched from them be more dark green or brown?

If I put them in with an Easter egger roo will the eggs hatched from them be a lighter green?

Thanks

 

[ronott1]

I have olive eggers that Made with my Easter egger hens and a marans rooster. They lay a beautiful olive egg!
If these olive eggers are In with their and rooster will the next eggs that are hatched from them be more dark green or brown?

If I put them in with an Easter egger roo will the eggs hatched from them be a lighter green?

Thanks

Some of them will not have the blue egg shell gene so you will get a combination of brown and green. It gets harder to get green eggs after f1. Over many generations, you would be able to get true green egg layers though.

 

[ronott1]

Hello,

I'm on the lookout for Frizzles. Or Sizzles.

I would love some frizzled bantam Cochins. Or Seramas.

Or...?

I am having difficulty turning up any leads. I do not have the means to hatch eggs.

I live in the Santa Cruz area. I couldn't take a roo because we have one too many right now and need to maintain a harmonious coop.

Can anyone direct me towards a reasonably local scource or someone who ships?

Thank you.

Chiqita has some frizzled silkies. She may also know where you can find other types. She lives in San Jose so not too far from you.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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Here's what I put together for this question.. its is highly simplified though because I didn't want to try and figure out all the brown egg genes. I THINK there are 8 - there may be more. If somebody knows it is different let me know and I will change that.



What you get in the next generation depends on what they carry exactly - and you can't see what the boys carry. If your EE roo carries only one blue egg gene then you will get brown or green instead of green and blue.

If you can get two blue egg genes back in all birds then all their eggs would be green. Test breeding to a white egg layer will show if you got everything correct. White is recessive to everything....

 

[chrissyr]

ok, i think i got the video of the babies eating mealworms. Around the 8 second mark is their little tug of war. The brown chick (Jubilee x) i have to watch. She(hoping) will sit there and eat it all up.

 

[ronott1]

ok, i think i got the video of the babies eating mealworms. Around the 8 second mark is their little tug of war. The brown chick (Jubilee x) i have to watch. She(hoping) will sit there and eat it all up.

Very nice!

They are really happy and healthy too.

 

[tommysgirl]

ok, i think i got the video of the babies eating mealworms. Around the 8 second mark is their little tug of war. The brown chick (Jubilee x) i have to watch. She(hoping) will sit there and eat it all up.

Darling!

 

[Happy Chooks]

this encourages me! do they have any heat source at all? if not, it might be Moving Day for mine...

Yes, they have an EcoGlow brooder for heat. And when they first hatch, I have a 25 watt red light for them because the coop has no windows. Once I open up the run at 1-2 weeks old, then I cut out the light. My chicks are 5 weeks old in it right now.

Oooh I hope we get snow!! Fully grown chickens ( 8 in a 4'x4' coop) don't need ANY kind of heat supplement right? I've read that they don't and it will only hurt in the long run? It's gonna get down in to the 20's next week at night.

They don't need heat, just make sure there are no drafts. I'm in the same general area as you and I've had chickens for almost 5 years and have never heated my coop.