CHICKEN SWAPS OF NH SWAP LISTINGS

[1Chick Magnet]

Holy moly, those are gorgeous pullets. You should get some solid with light barring (BBS, plus some fuzzy barring) and some who are shades of buff/blue/barred - sort of like a barred lemon blue - or black/buff/barred. I would bet everything will have cream/gold leakage in the hackles and tail.

My legbar boys are in with a Bubba daughter who is black-tailed buff, and with a Marans pullet, but they're mostly waiting around for me to put them with production layers. I think they'd make amazing heavy-laying olive eggers with the Golden Comets, and green layers with Tetra Tints.

glad you like the girls. sounds like they could make some interesting kids. some frizzled.feather legged and olive eggers.

what colors do you expect with the legbar/comet cross?

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

If I understand it correctly, with the legbar-comets I should get all barred chicks, but the barring may be very faint (since the barring on the legbars is already pretty fuzzy). There will be a mixture of basically gold-colored barred chicks (with varying amounts of black on hackles and tail, from almost-buff-brahma-color to a sort of messy lacing) and black-colored barred chicks. But that depends on what Golden Comets really are - they're obviously not ACTUALLY Silver-Laced Wyandotte x Rhode Island. Maybe a loooong time ago, but not any more.

I am most interested in the fact that you can get consistently HUGE dark-brown eggs, at least from the Golden Comets Ideal sells. The cross with the Legbars should give a nice dark brown-green or olive. Crossing with the Tetra Tints should be a mint or leaf green.

 

[1Chick Magnet]

If I understand it correctly, with the legbar-comets I should get all barred chicks, but the barring may be very faint (since the barring on the legbars is already pretty fuzzy). There will be a mixture of basically gold-colored barred chicks (with varying amounts of black on hackles and tail, from almost-buff-brahma-color to a sort of messy lacing) and black-colored barred chicks. But that depends on what Golden Comets really are - they're obviously not ACTUALLY Silver-Laced Wyandotte x Rhode Island. Maybe a loooong time ago, but not any more.

I am most interested in the fact that you can get consistently HUGE dark-brown eggs, at least from the Golden Comets Ideal sells. The cross with the Legbars should give a nice dark brown-green or olive. Crossing with the Tetra Tints should be a mint or leaf green.

I have comets. they do lay huge eggs. very impressive. they are with bubba for now. I was thinking pretty much the same as you but frizzled super laying girls. I actually bought them originally for zazu but then I found the silver ameracaunas and black polish. maybe he can play with them in the summer and bubba can have the ameraucanas for a while.

 

[1Chick Magnet]

one of my best silkie hens is laying this week. I have a broody hen. I am so tempted to bring her in and put eggs under her. it would make christmas fun.

 

[chicken pickin]

one of my best silkie hens is laying this week. I have a broody hen. I am so tempted to bring her in and put eggs under her. it would make christmas fun.

OHHHH Christmas Hatch!!!!!! Im setting eggs on Monday for a christmas eve hatch. Crazy to do in winter maybe but I just got an early xmas gift from hubby and Im putting eggs in it from a wonderful BYC member.

 

[chicken pickin]

Here are some updated pics from today of my Japanes Bantams I got from the derry swap in sept. I think Chickmagnet you said they may have come from you.

3 roos and cant decide which to keep. I like them all though they are skittish but they are nice so far and all pretty quiet. And only one pullet.





I know I posted them not to long ago but I thought I share. Any Idea on their coloring? im guessing maybe an unrecognized color.

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

Those are gorgeous. I especially like the cockerel with the most silver; he's really very lovely.

 

[chicken pickin]

Those are gorgeous. I especially like the cockerel with the most silver; he's really very lovely.

Thanks! I love the light colored ones also. But I cant decide on which one I want to keep. I feel bad because the 3 roos are housed with the one pullet and I know soon it might not be a good Idea for her They are 16 weeks and I wont be getting more bantams until I hopefully get some more in the spring. So for now I watch and wait. The one I think is the best looking is a little bit of a bully and he eats first and runs off the others and crows the most. The calmest quietest one that stays by the hen is the Blackest one but hes not the best looking roo out of the bunch. Agh decisions decisions...

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

Bantam roosters go through a major abusive/bratty stage at that age, especially when they have competition. They'll drag the pullet around, try to breed her before she's ready, hog the food, etc. Once you remove the other roosters, get it down to one, whoever that one is WILL suddenly crow and act like the most dominant one always has. Right now what you're seeing isn't really personality, it's dominance and flock structure. That quietest rooster will no longer be quiet once the others are gone, and the brattiest one may calm down a lot. The main reason I thin them is to stop the pullet abuse; I can't really count on noise or chasing to change.

 

[chicken pickin]

Bantam roosters go through a major abusive/bratty stage at that age, especially when they have competition. They'll drag the pullet around, try to breed her before she's ready, hog the food, etc. Once you remove the other roosters, get it down to one, whoever that one is WILL suddenly crow and act like the most dominant one always has. Right now what you're seeing isn't really personality, it's dominance and flock structure. That quietest rooster will no longer be quiet once the others are gone, and the brattiest one may calm down a lot. The main reason I thin them is to stop the pullet abuse; I can't really count on noise or chasing to change.

Yeah I figured it was a dominance thing and I know all would change when I seperate all the roos. So far the 4 of them are awesome together and no pullet abuse they leave her be for now anyway... When I said the black one was quiet I meant his voice, its very soft and only half a crow. Any idea on when itll be best to remove a roo or 2?They dont seem to have intrest in the pullet just yet.