California - Northern

[Happy Chooks]

lawatt.........congrats on the new additions!

Monster.........Icelandics are escape artists. Make sure your run is covered and you have it secured like Fort Knox. They are beautiful birds and good layers of pretty white eggs.

 

[juststruttin]

I have some olive eggers in with my barnevelder flock.

Yeah, me tooooo I have 8 in the bator going in to lockdown on the 6th. Can't wait to see what they look like. My hens are OE (BCP X Amer) and my Barnvelder is Double Laced Blue. The eggs are soooo dark I could not candle until late in the game, but I candled a few days ago and have 100% development.

 

[zooweemama]

I have a 6 month old cockerel with a pea comb and puffy cheeks and beard and all the girls from the same hens as he came from have all been green egg layers. One lays a very dark, olive green. That's why I got the Marans, so that I could work on the green eggs. I didn't get a roo in the Marans, maybe you can take my boy and I'll take yours! My husband is working in Redding.
Pam

I don't have any room for more cockerels (my luck with marans left me almost only males lmbo) but if you want/need a Marans rooster I have one that you can have (just give him to you). One is 22 weeks old (Samson who I will eventually be craigslisting soon) and 2 others are 20 weeks old. They are all french BCMs and come from great stock. I could make my own olive eggers but that means building a breeding pen and we still haven't even started on a main coop yet.

 

[juststruttin]

Love this pic!!! I hope that it helps you sell your chicks!

So tempting .... I have my hands tied behind my back. I run an X-mas tree lot with my cousin and am going to be crazy busy from Thankgiving til X-mas. Gotta resist.

 

[zooweemama]

We won't be going anywhere for several months. I'm hoping we can start making offers in February or March. So-for now, the 2 (silkie) roosters come in the garage @ night until about 9:30am.

We almost rented a nice place with 11 acres in Pilot Hill but that didn't work out.

My plan was to get either hatching eggs or chicks so they would have several months to grow up by spring. I thought the Buff Orpington rooster(s) would be old enough to protect the flock by then. Oh well, I can do more research between now and whenever we do move.

Space!! I bet you can hardly wait!

 

[zooweemama]

Hey there Amy beth, I do have a few olive eggers that I plan to put in a coop once they lay. I will also have some amazing moss green layers that I got from the swap at cheryl's. I don't expect to have any until spring though.

Awesome! I am so happy I have this place. Wonderful resource! I would like to have a nice colorful egg laying flock for our eggs.

 

[juststruttin]

Roosters roosters and more roosters. I did a tally this morning and of the 10 Swede chicks, 2 are girls. Urg..... My favs keep going to the other side. My ultimate fav is still a girl. Fingers crossed.

 

[tls_ranch]

Quote: Barnevelder x EE crosses are very pretty. My sister has a few and the pullets tend to have really fancy lacing, pencilling or spangling depending on what genes the EE side carried. She also has an australorp x barnie cross pullet that is amazing looking. Talk about a black bird shining in the sunlight. That black pullet way outshines the "pure" australorps.. She has a little barnie x EE cockerel that's looking really pretty and hopes to keep as a rooster (he has a pea comb so hopefully will carry the blue egg gene). If I could have another coop....I'd keep a whole layer flock of barnie x EE mixes!

Trisha

 

[zooweemama]

I have some olive eggers in with my barnevelder flock.

Ask and ye shall receive! haha Let me know if/when you'll have any you are ready to part with. Hatching eggs will have to wait until one of my BOs go broody though.

I am so excited. After culling my flock I have 7 Buff Orp girls, 1 black orp/marans mix girl (she is FLUFFY and big. bigger and fluffier than her same aged full blood Buff Orp sisters), 2 EEs and 1 bantam BLW. So only 11 ladies now. 2 roosters I am keeping right now. So not very many chickens. I'm ready for a teeny bit of chicken math. haha! Oh and 2 Leghorn pullets that Ron is sending my way later this month. So I will have 13. Still doesn't seem like enough.

 

[zooweemama]

Roosters roosters and more roosters. I did a tally this morning and of the 10 Swede chicks, 2 are girls. Urg..... My favs keep going to the other side. My ultimate fav is still a girl. Fingers crossed.

This is what happened with me and the Marans. lol