Dixie Chicks

[BriardChickens]

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.

Raccoons are nasty, a dead raccoon is a good raccoon IMO.

As for the italian sausage: fry it up like ground beef (so take it out of it's skin), then make an alfredo sauce over it. Boil pasta. Cover pasta with Italian Alfredo sauce.

 

[Ravynscroft]

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.

x2

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

I'd go for it... this is my sole survivor of pure Am/Lav Orp cross from dog attack...

I've also gotten strange slightly larger and floppy peacombs from pea/single crosses...

Also, just an fyi, I have gotten olive eggs from mint green EExEE... they were lighter olive eggs, but definitely olive...

 

[Ravynscroft]

@RavynFallen

Very nice...

Tried to post a pure blue pic, not uploading now, lol...

 

[minihorse927]

Very nice...

Tried to post a pure blue pic, not uploading now, lol...

thinking this one's a cockerel but keeping fingers crossed it's a pulet.

 

[minihorse927]

Very nice...

Tried to post a pure blue pic, not uploading now, lol...

if I didn't know any better I'd swear it was a pure blues. got nice lacing so far too.

 

[BriardChickens]

@vehve still hasn't shown up?

 

[minihorse927]

@vehve
 still hasn't shown up?

not that I've seen.

 

[minihorse927]

@RavynFallen, sorry about the OEGB. What are you baiting the traps with?

I used to have severe coon problems. Caught 15 coons in 13 nights I ony used 1 trap too!

Oh, the Isabel leg horn I thought was a late developing cockerel still has no wattles and looks like a pullet with a big comb.

 

[Mahen100]

I have got to say it....in answer to the "where did the EE come from? an egg!

 

[Beer can]

ive seen pure ameraucana lay green eggs. Egg color is subjective to the viewer.

That's what I've heard also, depends on how you look at them. SandHill his two lines of pure ameraucana, show quality, and they say blueish green eggs.
Some people refer to pure bred EE as non SOP ameraucanas. From what I understand on their history EEs came first and some were standardized to what we now call SOP ameraucanas. Not all EE are hatchery mutts, they just don't fit the standard.
Have you heard this?