Howdy all. I am a newbie here and I have lots to learn. My wife of 45 yrs and I live in the Real Nor Cal. A small town called Happy Camp on the Klamath River. Nearest traffic light is over an hours drive. SF is a 6 hr drive SOUTH. We retired here in 01 and are now ready to settle in and have some chickens. I have no questions now but will be reading up on all the info here and surely have plenty of questions later. Have a great day all.
Welcome to a really great thread!
It's been years now but my sister used to teach special ed. In HC, she's now in Anchorage. I'm just off Hwy 199, at the Applegate River, I think we are about 2 hours apart, only a hop, skip and a jump, in Oregon chicken travel!
This is a great thread for learning and sharing. Just build a big coop, so many wonderful breeds spread among these wonderful people.
hey Deann, do you think Michael might be willing to train someone (i.e. me) on processing chickens? I've been reading up on it a lot, but wouldn't feel comfortable doing it without seeing it/trying it with a mentor first...
As Ron already said - that is not quite true. White x Blue does not make the blue lighter. The percentages are per each chicken - you have a 50% of getting the blue egg gene/or not. Not per batch - so no - no half and half there.
White x green does NOT equal blue.. or brown.. it equals mostly green, with a very slight chance of brown.. and almost NO chance of blue. I made this chart awhile back - it is a simplified version..
There are no percentages - because the green can range depending on what brown egg genes are present. The males carry the same egg color genes that the females do, this is not sex linked in any way - but it sure is a lot harder to tell which genes the male carries
Crossing him to a white egg laying hen will show which genes he carries somewhat in his daughters.
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..
Quote: I have no idea Well one thing is constant My almost white eggs all come from my Lemon stock I bough from a breeder. The Buffs all lay the variety. But one of my lemon cocks is almost white, whit some light orange striping. I wonder if that like had some white orpington in them. My leon hens are much lighter than the buffs, they are a dull yellow.
hey Deann, do you think Michael might be willing to train someone (i.e. me) on processing chickens? I've been reading up on it a lot, but wouldn't feel comfortable doing it without seeing it/trying it with a mentor first...
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)
Not too far as the crow flies, though
Well one thing is constant My almost white eggs all come from my Lemon stock I bough from a breeder. The Buffs all lay the variety. But one of my lemon cocks is almost white, whit some light orange striping. I wonder if that like had some white orpington in them. My leon hens are much lighter than the buffs, they are a dull yellow.
