Chicken math

[Peeps61]

Wow! I wish our feed store allowed us to order in smaller numbers.

good call on the EE they're some of our favorite chickens.

Idk if your feed store is the same but you may want to be sure they know if you want all different EE or similar. It's something ours does so you tell them variety or something along those lines.

I think you'll really like the BO too they're beautiful birds and ours have been good layers and one went broody and hatched eggs last spring for us too. She was a great Mommy!

I'm not picky about the EE's - just want the blue eggs to set off my white and brown eggs as I sell my extras. I am looking forward to the BO's - I bought 3 from this same feed store four years ago and I still have two of them. They still lay fairly often too, and have gone broody a few times, but I didn't have fertile eggs for them at the time, so no chicks.

Probably a good thing as I will have too many when I get these chicks!

 

[Peeps61]

Chicken math is truly deadly .....

I started out with 0 interest in chickens , thinking its not gonna happen well it did . my neighbor Mrs Lou came to me one day and said her daughter Rita worked with 4-h and would love it if I would do the 4-h chick chain. I read up on the hens and found that I could get some profit off of the eggs and meat . and of course like any victim of chicken math I decided to get 5 barreds and 5 BO . as soon as the chicks arrived I immediately began to plot to get some more fuzzy butts , and now I'm waiting till June , which is when my 7 mottled Cochin's and my 8 fleurs will arrive .

Yep! You've been bitten!

 

[chickendreams24]

Wow! I wish our feed store allowed us to order in smaller numbers. good call on the EE they're some of our favorite chickens.

Idk if your feed store is the same but you may want to be sure they know if you want all different EE or similar. It's something ours does so you tell them variety or something along those lines.

I think you'll really like the BO too they're beautiful birds and ours have been good layers and one went broody and hatched eggs last spring for us too. She was a great Mommy!

I'm not picky about the EE's - just want the blue eggs to set off my white and brown eggs as I sell my extras.  I am looking forward to the BO's - I bought 3 from this same feed store four years ago and I still have two of them.  They still lay fairly often too, and have gone broody a few times, but I didn't have fertile eggs for them at the time, so no chicks.

Probably a good thing as I will have too many when I get these chicks!

Okay just don't be disappointed if you get green layers instead of blue. From. Our experiences green eggs of various shades even light olive are much more common than true blue eggs from EE.

Still they're wonderful and it's super fun to see what each bird will lay for their color.

 

[dekel18042]

I'm not picky about the EE's - just want the blue eggs to set off my white and brown eggs as I sell my extras. I am looking forward to the BO's - I bought 3 from this same feed store four years ago and I still have two of them. They still lay fairly often too, and have gone broody a few times, but I didn't have fertile eggs for them at the time, so no chicks.

Probably a good thing as I will have too many when I get these chicks!

If you want blue eggs, some EE's do lay excellent blue eggs. I have a line from grandmother to mother to daughter and the eggs are blue. The only problem with them is the eggs which I have set, the vast majority have been cockerels.

However if you can breed your own or get someone to do it for you, get a true Ameraucana (Not an EE) rooster. The Ameraucana should carry the blue egg gene and put him over a white laying hen, leghorn or California Grey. You will get a hen who lays an excellent number of blue eggs, or you can get Ameraucana hens, although they and the afore mentioned hybrids are fairly expensive it is easy to make them yourself.

 

[chickendreams24]

    If you want blue eggs, some EE's do lay excellent blue eggs.  I have a line from grandmother to mother to daughter and the eggs are blue. The only problem with them is the eggs which I  have set, the vast majority have been cockerels.   However if you can breed your own or get someone to do it for you, get a true Ameraucana (Not an EE) rooster.  The Ameraucana should carry the blue egg gene and put him over a white laying hen, leghorn or California Grey.  You will get a hen who lays an excellent number of blue eggs, or you can get Ameraucana hens, although they and the afore mentioned hybrids are fairly expensive it is easy to make them yourself.

Yeah I'm not saying some don't lay blue eggs we got a pullet last year and she lays a very beautiful blue egg not as bright as I would like but still lovely!

Of course it's all about the line. I've heard even some people say their ameraucanas layed green tinted eggs.
Just be sure you know the color of the eggs your are acquiring birds from.

Some cream legbars also lay green eggs. The ever on-going search for blue eggs.

 

[Peeps61]

If you want blue eggs, some EE's do lay excellent blue eggs. I have a line from grandmother to mother to daughter and the eggs are blue. The only problem with them is the eggs which I have set, the vast majority have been cockerels.

However if you can breed your own or get someone to do it for you, get a true Ameraucana (Not an EE) rooster. The Ameraucana should carry the blue egg gene and put him over a white laying hen, leghorn or California Grey. You will get a hen who lays an excellent number of blue eggs, or you can get Ameraucana hens, although they and the afore mentioned hybrids are fairly expensive it is easy to make them yourself.

Thank you dekel18042!

 

[curious chickee]

Yeah I'm not saying some don't lay blue eggs we got a pullet last year and she lays a very beautiful blue egg not as bright as I would like but still lovely!

Of course it's all about the line. I've heard even some people say their ameraucanas layed green tinted eggs.
Just be sure you know the color of the eggs your are acquiring birds from.

Some cream legbars also lay green eggs. The ever on-going search for blue eggs.

You can never be sure of egg color. I have a blue ameracauna show quality. Who lays brown eggs. Obviously I will not be using her in my breeding program

 

[chickendreams24]

You can never be sure of egg color. I have a blue ameracauna show quality. Who lays brown eggs. Obviously I will not be using her in my breeding program

Yep yikes! How sad. I bet she's beautiful too. It's such a bummer that egg color isn't easier to pick and then keep. A couple of our project birds are laying brown instead of their intended green or olive too.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Gah! Chicken math just struck. I went to the feed store for feed and they had chicks and I didn't even look at them until after I paid so I wouldn't be tempted. Good job, right? Got back to work and had an email from Ideal about their weekly specials and ordered 25 Old English Game Bantams. Now, this wouldn't be so bad but I already have an order of 42 coming next week from Cackle, plus 19 in the incubator due to hatch.

BUT THEY'LL ALL BE SO CUTE!!!!!!!

 

[Spartan22]

Gah! Chicken math just struck. I went to the feed store for feed and they had chicks and I didn't even look at them until after I paid so I wouldn't be tempted. Good job, right? Got back to work and had an email from Ideal about their weekly specials and ordered 25 Old English Game Bantams. Now, this wouldn't be so bad but I already have an order of 42 coming next week from Cackle, plus 19 in the incubator due to hatch. 

BUT THEY'LL ALL BE SO CUTE!!!!!!!

Hoarder!!! Ha ha ha