Dixie Chicks

[BriardChickens]

sounds like you guys already started the petition

 

[hennible]

Do it AL! Do it! your fans demand it! Lol

 

[Amberjem]

ohmygosh I am a froozen popcicle.. just got the new chicken feeder hung up and boarded support for it in the henhouse run hopng it will work had found a plastic dollar store oil pan I used for the botton would like it to be about an inch wider but hopefully this will work until I can find a better option.......in the mean time I cant feel my nose or toes lol




ok soooooo I been dreaming thinking bout when my chickens start finally laying I am hoping dotty will start anyday now

poor violet has been a trooper with an egg everyday but we need more eggs lol anyways...as everyone except violet is mixed with amercana and a brown egg layer(of one kind of another and the breed of brown egg layer doesnt matter right?) does that mean I'll get a olive egg out of them possibily? cuz amercana crossed with brown egg layer will lay an olive egg right?

 

[Amberjem]

ohh and here @Alaskan is all warm and toasty with a fire and I am on my last pellet for the wood stove......hoping I can spread it out for three more days so can get another ton of pellets to finish winter off

 

[1kluckychik]

The high here in skipperville was upper 70's. Sure doesn't feel like winter!

 

[Ravynscroft]

ohmygosh I am a froozen popcicle.. just got the new chicken feeder hung up and boarded support for it in the henhouse run hopng it will work had found a plastic dollar store oil pan I used for the botton would like it to be about an inch wider but hopefully this will work until I can find a better option.......in the mean time I cant feel my nose or toes lol




ok soooooo I been dreaming thinking bout when my chickens start finally laying I am hoping dotty will start anyday now   poor violet has been a trooper with an egg everyday but we need more eggs lol anyways...as everyone except violet is mixed with amercana and a brown egg layer(of one kind of another and the breed of brown egg layer doesnt matter right?) does that mean I'll get a olive egg out of them possibily? cuz amercana crossed with brown egg layer will lay an olive egg right?

You're a frozen popsicle and I am a drowned rat, lol... working on a new coop on a muddy hill in a downpour...

As for your olive eggs... yes and no... it all depends on if the offspring gets one of the blue egg genes and one brown one.. darker the brown gene the more olive colored it will be, if it isn't a very dark brown then it may come out green... if it misses the blue egg gene then it may be a shade of brown... it isn't exact and it is easiest to predict from purebred to purebred, but only way to tell what color they will lay is to see their first egg, lol... so now that I confused you more, I hope you get gorgeous olive eggs!!

 

[Amberjem]

The high here in skipperville was upper 70's. Sure doesn't feel like winter!

actually I dont have tooooooooooooo much to complain about coldwise here it's not like @vehve or @Alaskan or even
@hennible 's weather...though I am watching close how she deals with the humidity in her cold.............we don't generally get below freezing except a couple weeks out of the winter and we havent gotten snow yet but we usually get it in january anyways I think it's about 45ish atm I'm just having a pain day today and whenever I do I always get mega sensative to the cold...............

 

[BriardChickens]

bummer.. -28C, feels like -38C.. we are on an extreme cold warning as per the weather network...

-18F, feels like -36F

 

[Amberjem]

You're a frozen popsicle and I am a drowned rat, lol... working on a new coop on a muddy hill in a downpour...

As for your olive eggs... yes and no... it all depends on if the offspring gets one of the blue egg genes and one brown one.. darker the brown gene the more olive colored it will be, if it isn't a very dark brown then it may come out green... if it misses the blue egg gene then it may be a shade of brown... it isn't exact and it is easiest to predict from purebred to purebred, but only way to tell what color they will lay is to see their first egg, lol... so now that I confused you more, I hope you get gorgeous olive eggs!!

naww not tooo confused it's pretty much what I figured without letting chicken genetics drag me into the endless fascination of genetic coding ect ect ect......it's a catch22 for memy other half says they dont like green eggs cuz less whites

I dont think would be noticed one way or the other.....anyways I like the possibility of having a mixed I can tell egg color diffrence when I settle on the purebred I want.........or heck maybe I will jst stick with the barnyard mix guess we'll see..

 

[Amberjem]

awesome @RavynFallen you'll have to share some pictures... what kind of soil do you have there to deal with.. we have very sandy soil here makes drainage good or having to dig in it