Dixie Chicks

[vehve]

Haha, they look grumpy. That pic is super weird, it looks like you have the worlds smallest intersection and dirt road next to your coop.

 

[Outpost JWB]

@Beer can , What I noticed about the pic is that you still have SNOW!!!

Sorry for you. We are cleaning coops and working outside today too. Suppose to rain again tomorrow.

Question about my new OE chicks. I didn't pay much attention last night when I picked them up, but shouldn't they have greenish legs? My other 2 adult hens have green legs. ????

 

[Beer can]

Lol, that's the driveway, hardly anyone have paved ones around here. The road at the end is a secondary tar and stone road. Might have one vehicle a hour go by. There is another driveway running parallel with ours and goes to a 80 acre clover and alfalfa field behind us and a cabin.

 

[vehve]

JWB, I'd say our OE has greyish black legs, with a dash of skintones in there. I don't know how to describe the color. Nude perhaps? And some yellow hints too.

 

[Beer can]

The snow is mostly gone, the others were out yesterday, and seem mad they are not today. I'm not losing any more to predators.

 

[vehve]

Darn those are pretty, Beer. I really like the plumage of that one with the crazy wig, just not a big fan of the wig itself.

 

[bamadude]

@Outpost JWB they could have green legs if ameracauna is in the mix.
There are several different breeds that can produce OE. Any blue egg laying breed (with 2 blue genes)crossed with dark brown layer will result in OE.

 

[vehve]

Bama, if it's homozygotically blue laying... but pretty much yeah. I'm excited to see what we get from our OE eggs. Statistically, we should get one medium brown layer, and one slightly lighter green layer, and two should be boys. I'm hoping we have some amazing luck and all four turn out to be girls though. That would be nice. Then we would be up to capacity again, otherwise I'm going to have to hatch out another batch again at some point.

 

[Ravynscroft]

I crossed my single comb EE roo with a classic hatchery EE and their first pullet just started laying... her legs are yellow with black overlay on just the front and she just started laying awesome olive colored eggs... will see if I can get pics later...

 

[bamadude]

Happy now v