Dixie Chicks

[BriardChickens]

@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.

that's a lot of raccoons.

Hope you get lucky and the leghorn is a pullet!

our fox hasn't shown up in a while, but my dog can now run along ~1/3 of the perimeter of the entire set up. Maybe that's keeping Mr. Fox away.

 

[Ravynscroft]

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

Very nice... here's a pure blue...

 

[Ravynscroft]

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?

Correct... the Ameraucana name was being used before pure Am's were accepted into the APA, thus why hatcheries can use the name without it being 'false advertising'... Am breeders came up with the term EE for mixed breed AND non SOP Am's.... EE is now also being used for any type of non SOP or mixed breed blue or green egg layer, like Cream Legbar crosses as well...
It's very mucky and not set properly on terms and debates are ongoing between using EE or Ameraucana for non SOP's or mixed...
Clear as mud, right?

 

[Ravynscroft]

@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.

Wanted to use canned cat food, Jim didn't pick it up... so currently using the bundle of feathers left from the lost ones and some sausage... any ideas what else to use?

Good note, I have sold out of my extra Lav chicks and tomorrow all my blacks are going to a new home as well...

 

[bamadude]

Ravyn: throw a little chicken feed in the trap too.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Ravyn: throw a little chicken feed in the trap too.

Thanks, bama... I did that last time for the possum... I think my brain is stuck on stupid lately... too much heat here...

 

[bamadude]

Np

 

[Alaskan]

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...

Nice to know, thanks!

As to the pea comb, it is just a simple dominant gene, like the blue egg gene. However, your EE is likely
to have two copies of the pea comb gene, which means everything that you hatch from her will have a pea comb.

If she has only one copy of the pea comb gene, which is possible since she is an EE, then all chicks have a 50% chance of having a pea comb.

A single comb means the chicken has nothing else hiding in there comb wise. Single comb is recessive, really just a blank spot. Two blank spots and you get a single comb.

A rose comb works exactly like a pea comb.

However, one pea comb gene plus one rose comb gene equals a walnut comb.

 

[BriardChickens]

Cool, thanks for the info. I think I'll collect her eggs for the next week. She is a rooster favorite, so no reason for concern on fertility.

 

[minihorse927]

Wanted to use canned cat food, Jim didn't pick it up... so currently using the bundle of feathers left from the lost ones and some sausage... any ideas what else to use?

Good note, I have sold out of my extra Lav chicks and tomorrow all my blacks are going to a new home as well...

marshmallow. I tear them in half, microwave them for a couple seconds and stick them to the bottom of the trip lever for the trap. Marshmallows are a racoons weakness. I blocked all sides of the trap except the entrance and I caught 1 every night. Even caught 3 in the same trap one night!