Consolidated Kansas

[ppimf]

Anyone here have blrw they would want to sell eggs or chicks?

 

[chicken danz]

Danz, I do question about the ones on FaceBook selling "Olive Hatching eggs". When I first crossed a Barred rock rooster with a blue egg-layer, I got olive-colored eggs, but the next generation produced a light green egg. My fourth generation are all laying a nice blue egg. All the generations are barred, and most with tuffs.

I've had a couple olive eggers or green egg layers. If you take a blue egg layer and cross it to a brown egg layer you will most likely get green or olive eggs depending on how dark the brown is. In order to keep this color going you would have to breed the females to a male with the exact same cross. You would have to do this for a number of generations in order to get the color to consistently stay the same. From the breeding experiments I've done I think it would take about 5 generations to get that same egg color to stick. Breeding a hen with one of her siblings would cause the dominant genetics to surface rather than the olive color. That is why you have to start with a new cockerel for several generations, to keep those dominant genetics from taking over. I'm quoting 5 generations because when I have bred for a particular trait it seems to take about that long for it to become the dominant trait. The other way you could try to go about it is breed the olive egg layer hens to another brown egg layers rooster in one of the two breeds used. That would tend to produce a darker egg but you could loose the blue in time even though it is the dominant color. Does any of this make sense? I'm not a genetic specialist for sure. Just know enough to make me want to try new things all the time.
I finally got all the chickens out of my grow out pen today. All that is left is guineas. I think I have 2 male pearl guineas left in there I want to pull out. But I'm going to have to catch them one by one and cage them so I can listen to them. I want all the boys in there to be coral blue. I have two female pearls in there and I'm thinking the pearls and the coral blue together should produce a darker blue or purple color. So much for not breeding guineas any more. If I'd never seen these Coral blue I would have been fine.
I had a huge hatch today and they are being so noisy.
I also ordered another new incubator today. $800 plus, but I need it. Now if I can ever get my home made hatcher built I'll be happy. That is project that I doubt will get done this spring. Unlike most purchased hatchers I want it to also have turning ability. It's just taking research to get all the parts I need.

 

[Ralph Moyer]

Danz, I picked up a non-working wine cooler, that I think I can use make an incubator. So far, all I have done is get rid of the compressor. I doubt that I can use the temp. controls, as it only has a two digit display. Right now I have too many things, that have to be done, so this will have to wait a while.
I was just wondering about the olive "hatching" eggs, as I don't recall of a special breed, that has that trait. I think I'll stick to my barred or " Cuckoo Easter Eggers", and see if they continue to lay blue eggs. I do have both Black Copper Marians and Cuckoo Marians, so I would have no trouble getting olive eggs again, if I choose to.

 

[Trish44]

Anyone here have blrw they would want to sell eggs or chicks?

I will have chicks, but my pullets aren't laying quite yet. They're starting to get red combs so it won't be too long before they lay I don't think. I have a list of people wanting to be notified when they lay.

@Ralph Moyer I think the barred Easter Eggers are pretty cool in themselves. It sounds like you have the right birds to get the Olive back if you want to, but if you're wanting to sell the blue egg layers I'll bet people will like those too.

 

[Ralph Moyer]

Trish, I am just trying to see if I can keep the barred line constant. I did sell some green egg-layers a year, or so ago, and the person, that got them, said the ones that she hatched, from them, were still barred, but they laid blue eggs. I think she was disappointed that they were not still green.

 

[Trish44]

Trish, I am just trying to see if I can keep the barred line constant. I did sell some green egg-layers a year, or so ago, and the person, that got them, said the ones that she hatched, from them, were still barred, but they laid blue eggs. I think she was disappointed that they were not still green.

Well if you market them as Barred Easter Eggers that lay "blue eggs" I think people will like that. I'm always hearing from people who want blue egg layers. I can see it you were selling them as Olive eggers where the person would be disappointed if they were expecting olive eggs instead of blue.

 

[Dani4Hedgies]

Well saw the hand surg today and have been told that I have to have surg April 10th though im hoping they get a cancellation so I can get in and get this cyst removed as being down to 50 percent use on my right hand just isn't working.

 

[chicken danz]

Well saw the hand surg today and have been told that I have to have surg April 10th though im hoping they get a cancellation so I can get in and get this cyst removed as being down to 50 percent use on my right hand just isn't working.

Ah I'm sorry. I've been there for sure and my right hand is permanently considered disabled. So I can empathize. Surgery will be great if you have a good surgeon. PT is vital after hand surgery and it doesn't come quick. The more you use it the faster it will recover... within reason.
My little experiment of putting eggs under the broodies that were due to hatch seems to be working. I did a quick check today and of the 5 broodies I gave eggs to, I saw one that had two chicks, and all the others had at least one chick. I only saw one unhatched egg. I had candled them before giving them to the girls to make sure the chicks were alive. They were all still sitting in their nest boxes and growling at me but I lifted them each a little to see anyway.
Now I'm thinking of replacing some goose eggs with some duck eggs. I have a couple geese who are insisting on sitting so if I replace the goose eggs with duck eggs at least they won't be sitting on air.

I had a pretty awful day today. I decided to work on wiring my new lights in the building. I started on the end where I have netting over the breeding pens inside because those birds are the flighty ones. First I had to take all the netting down on those four pens. The dust was overwhelming and everything including me got covered in a thick layer of chicken dust. While I had the ladder in there I decided to put in the back pulley for the pop doors I hadn't installed yet, so I wouldn't have to take the netting down again to do that and wrangle the ladder. I couldn't find anything I needed or was looking for in tools and stuff. I spent half my time looking for things and the other half climbing up and down the ladder. I only got two lights wired and hung for working on it for hours because of all the other things.
I decided to go ahead and put the bulbs in the fixtures I had hung and wired. I had moved them to the basement I heard a sound I knew meant trouble. Sure enough the sump pump motor was running but it wasn't pumping. After getting close to 5 inches of reain in the last 3 days It REALLY needed to be working. The sump was full and had I not discovered it the basement would have been a flooded mess. Thank goodness we had a new one just in case but of course hooking it up created all kinds of problems, which meant running to town to get some new parts to make it fit the old piping. Finally early this evening it was all back together and running like crazy.

 

[Dani4Hedgies]

Danz,
Thanks after the surgery which will remove the cyst on the main tendon in my hand I will be a Lot more helpful on our next butchering time. Picked up some assorted bantams last night at TS ended up with a Seabright plus more game and cochin which is sooo awesome. Will post pictures later.

 

[Trish44]

Danz,
Thanks after the surgery which will remove the cyst on the main tendon in my hand I will be a Lot more helpful on our next butchering time. Picked up some assorted bantams last night at TS ended up with a Seabright plus more game and cochin which is sooo awesome. Will post pictures later.

Good luck with your surgery Dani, hope it goes well & helps your hand function.