Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

You guys move quickly... It's hard keeping up.

I was going to say that some signs of the blue gene on a cockerel might be a rose comb, and a tufty head. Out of our 4 chicks, only the cockerel looks like he would carry the blue gene. I'm seriously considering culling him, he's mainly just annoying and with his genes he won't make much of a meal. The girls don't carry the same tuft or comb as their mother does, so I think they will most probably be brown layers. It will be interesting to see what happens though. One of them is already looking slightly redder than the rest, at 13 weeks of age. I'm hoping for early laying. With the 19 hours of daylight we're currently getting, it might even happen.

holy smokes thats alot of light... 50 and I were watchuing the last of the sunset hit at 11oclock last night.......


Apparently the tufty cheeks does not mean they will have the blue/green egg gene @vehve My eggna poe from my NY HAl hatchling started laying and she has tufted cheeks but no blue/green eggs

 

[Amberjem]

Sheriff was just here. Said that we have the right to protect our property and left it at that.

@Amberjem f1 oliveegger is the first cross of blue and dark brown and f2 is breeding the f1 to another dark brown to keep the olive eggs in next gen and to try to get them a darker olive. Helps to keep track as crossing f1 with a different color will cause different results.

No more chickens have appeared.

Breeds we have currently:

Blue, Black/Black Splits and Lavender Ameraucanas
Araucanas (lf and bantam)
Cream Legbars
GDW and Wheaten Sulmtalers
Lav Orp over black Australorps
Silkies
EE's
Black/Blue Copper Marans
OEGB's (Self Blue, SDW, Brassy Back, Ginger Red, Lemon Blue, BBR)
A couple Welsummers and Seramas
Call ducks

And 5 Baby Ohiki

hmmmm did you tell the cop you wanted to press charges?

 

[Beer can]

Good plan bc. The only way to get rid of it once it has successfully killed one is to kill it.
Be careful with the snare, it will kill cats and dogs to.

 

[minihorse927]

Not my pics of course, but this is lavender.

This is mauve, again not my pics

 

[hennible]

soo lucky...sure wish I had a bit of clay for the minerals and other goodies in it...we have so much sandy ...infact if you seperate the tiny rocks it's darn near pure sand

Same as cold Canadian and I have done with clay, mulching is supposed to improve sand vastly... Especially over a few years

 

[Beer can]

I got twenty five new ghost chickens May 5.... :-(

 

[hennible]

What?

 

[vehve]

Jem, not tufted cheeks, but a tuft on the head. In the line that this mutt girl comes from, the breeder says the blue gene seems to go hand in hand with the interesting hair. And that weirdo comb apparently too.

 

[Ravynscroft]

I got twenty five new ghost chickens May 5.... :-(

What the flock???

 

[minihorse927]

I got twenty five new ghost chickens May 5.... :-(

the good news is you don't have to feed those ghost chickens.