Dixie Chicks

[minihorse927]

@RavynFallen

 

[BriardChickens]

Her cheeks look like that and so does her face (comb).

Black is dominant in chickens?

 

[BriardChickens]

Dark legs too, I posted a picture for you.

 

[minihorse927]

this is her last fall. She's got a nice little muff around her cheeks.

yep, that's an Easter egger.

 

[minihorse927]

Her cheeks look like that and so does her face (comb). 

Black is dominant in chickens?

black is dominant in chicken ducks, everything.

That one I posted is an Easter egger. I know it if but it looks like a pure blue ameraucana.

 

[minihorse927]

More than likely you'll end up with a pea comb (almost impossible to get rid of pea combs in a program) and it will lay green eggs.

 

[BriardChickens]

so what are the genetics behind a comb? Ideally, the EE x Orpington crosses would hatch out combed like the EE and lay green/blue eggs. Slim chances, you think?

 

[minihorse927]

so what are the genetics behind a comb? Ideally, the EE x Orpington crosses would hatch out combed like the EE and lay green/blue eggs. Slim chances, you think?

I'd almost guarantee your going to get a pea comb (which is super dominant) and get a green layer. I've been messing with the ones I created here for a few years now and they always come out pea Combed and more than half the time they lay green eggers.

 

[BriardChickens]

Hmm, maybe I should incubate... I'd be butchering roosters in February, coldest time of the year (potential -30C)

 

[Outpost JWB]

Oh, lost a couple of my best OEGB's to a predator... pulled them through the bars and dragged them off... moved the bantams and have traps set...

RavynFallen, So sorry. We now keep 2 "have a heart" (LOL!) traps set for any daring predators. I have lost so many to raccoons. They are nasty and thick here. We also catch a bunch of feral cats-but we let them go. They have not yet bothered my chickens. One of our neighbors a road over is a cat hoarder. Anytime I walk past their house you can smell the cat pee from the road. They are all feral cats.

I've got to figure out what's for dinner. Something using Italian sausage.....I'll catch up with you all later.