X2 on Blackbirds post. Here are a pair of whites from my birds:
Cream Legbars
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Sexing Recessive white Legbar http://www.the-coop.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=108116
My first hatch - 5 each boy and girl.
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My first hatch - 5 each boy and girl.
the one at the bottom left looks weird, but it may be the chick down that has not dried up
Yes, I had issues with the humidity and she came out quite sticky. They are all well marked and look like they should. I am excited to be done with this first hatch and looking forward to making decisions for this year. Need to do something about my bator issues for lockdown. May need to invest in a new Hovabator.
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Originally Posted by enola
Some one else posted about how disappointed they were when their pullet laid white eggs. Then they posted when the eggs got some size to them they turned blue.
The decision was when her egg making parts got in the groove the blue shell was the result!
Interesting...
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Originally Posted by GaryDean26
The blue egg gene is dominant so only one gene is required for the hens to lay blue eggs. If you are getting a cream colored egg you most likely have a cockerel and a hen as parents that are both only carriers for one blue egg gene.
Putting the Hen in a Marans Pen will only produce speckled brown eggs. To create Olive Eggers you need a bird that has two (2) copies of the blue egg gene. The offspring will then all result with one blue egg gene and will produce the blue egg shell that is the required base for olive eggs.
If you have multiple Legbar Cockerels I would suggest that you instead put a Marans hen in your Legbar Pens and track the hens from those paring. If 100% produce olive eggs you will know that your cockerel is pure for the Blue Egg gene and can use him for breeding. If you get 50% olive eggs and 50% speckled brown eggs you will know that your cockerel is not pure breed for the blue egg gene and you can remove him from you breeding pen.
The same thing can be done with the hens in the Legbar Pen. You can put one hen in the Marans pen at a time so you know what hen the egg is from (it will be the only blue egg in the pen). It is a lot of work but that is the only way I know to pure breed your line for the blue eggs gene.
More tips and information can be found here
Thank you!!! Very informative and answered my question perfectly!!
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Originally Posted by WHmarans
In the past when I've sold hens that weren't very good compared to the standard I just priced them the same as local Easter eggers and call them that basically.
That is what I have to do here, too...
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Originally Posted by DevieLou
New York State Agriculture & Markets Law 354:§
354. 3. No person shall sell, offer for sale, barter or give away living baby chicks,ducklings or other fowl or baby rabbits under two months of age in any quantity less than six.
So I'd have to wait until he's two months before I could rehome him.
Oh my , glad we don't have that law here!!
Originally Posted by enola
Some one else posted about how disappointed they were when their pullet laid white eggs. Then they posted when the eggs got some size to them they turned blue.
The decision was when her egg making parts got in the groove the blue shell was the result!
Interesting...
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Originally Posted by GaryDean26
The blue egg gene is dominant so only one gene is required for the hens to lay blue eggs. If you are getting a cream colored egg you most likely have a cockerel and a hen as parents that are both only carriers for one blue egg gene.
Putting the Hen in a Marans Pen will only produce speckled brown eggs. To create Olive Eggers you need a bird that has two (2) copies of the blue egg gene. The offspring will then all result with one blue egg gene and will produce the blue egg shell that is the required base for olive eggs.
If you have multiple Legbar Cockerels I would suggest that you instead put a Marans hen in your Legbar Pens and track the hens from those paring. If 100% produce olive eggs you will know that your cockerel is pure for the Blue Egg gene and can use him for breeding. If you get 50% olive eggs and 50% speckled brown eggs you will know that your cockerel is not pure breed for the blue egg gene and you can remove him from you breeding pen.
The same thing can be done with the hens in the Legbar Pen. You can put one hen in the Marans pen at a time so you know what hen the egg is from (it will be the only blue egg in the pen). It is a lot of work but that is the only way I know to pure breed your line for the blue eggs gene.
More tips and information can be found here
Thank you!!! Very informative and answered my question perfectly!!
Quote:
Originally Posted by WHmarans
In the past when I've sold hens that weren't very good compared to the standard I just priced them the same as local Easter eggers and call them that basically.
That is what I have to do here, too...
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Originally Posted by DevieLou
New York State Agriculture & Markets Law 354:§
354. 3. No person shall sell, offer for sale, barter or give away living baby chicks,ducklings or other fowl or baby rabbits under two months of age in any quantity less than six.
So I'd have to wait until he's two months before I could rehome him.
Oh my , glad we don't have that law here!!
Its pretty common to have a law like this--my city also says the same thing but there are no penalties attached to it, so they are more like guidelines. More than once I have gone to a feed store and purchased a single chick because I only had one chick hatch from shipped eggs and I didn't want it to be lonely.
What is most frightening about this law is the penalty attached:" 4. A violation of the provisions of this section is a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by both."
A year in jail (cost of incarceration for 1 year in New York is $60,076 http://www.vera.org/files/price-of-prisons-new-york-fact-sheet.pdf not to mention the cost of prosecution) becasue you only sold 2 chicks instead of 6? This makes no sense to me.
Yeesh got to sort out whose laying white eggs again in the Cream Legbar coop. It's not just the leghorns I have in there. Regrouping and rethinking my breeding plan now....
But this girl is looking fantastic, at 12 weeks! She's got GREAT size, wish she had more of a crest but she is cream and her tail angle is decent.
But this girl is looking fantastic, at 12 weeks! She's got GREAT size, wish she had more of a crest but she is cream and her tail angle is decent.
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It's to prevent the Easter basket/pet chick thing, right? The local feed store here is really careful right before Easter; in general, though, they know who has chickens and will sell one or two chicks to them, no problem. (Buying 100 lbs of chicken feed is usually a clue.) 
Everyone see just two females? Why are all the hatches from my eggs, making mostly males? Very lopsided hatches.
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