EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[daxigait]

Ok, genetics people. Here's my plan. I have two "EE" pullets (roo was HRIR/amerecauna, hens were amerecaunas in the wrong colors= EEs?) and a sapphire roo. Will he do anything to enhance the color in their offspring or is that wishful thinking? I also have two legbar pullets that could go in that pen. I want to have "Sowing&Crowing Super Blues" which would be white/spotted/speckled birds thrifty on feed and very blue/green eggs. My EE hens are my best layers, and the only ones still laying through molting.

I don't know, but it sounds cool. I love blue and green eggs. I will look forward to the answer. My EE are second only to my Sapphire in laying. She is a machine.

 

[SilverHair]

97 bottles of beer on the wall....

96 bottles of beer on the wall, oopsss 95,94,93 I'mmm hereeeee

 

[daxigait]

96 bottles of beer on the wall,  oopsss 95,94,93 I'mmm hereeeee

Anything cooking on your end?

 

[SilverHair]

Saw something yesterday wish I had gotten a picture of it, eagle down by the news paper boxes munching on a dead animal, 1st I've seen around here in 18 years of moving back home, was neat as heck

 

[SilverHair]

Anything cooking on your end?

not yet still trying to figure how to shore up dirt walls ( sugar sand ) I want a root cellar

 

[DwayneNLiz]

not yet still trying to figure how to shore up dirt walls ( sugar sand ) I want a root cellar

did you know that you can mimic a root cellar in a big tote?

http://firstrootfarm.com/root-cellaring-101

http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Storing_root_vegetables_in_a_closet/

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@campingshaws
did you get more eggs form your neighbor?? or more duck eggs??

 

[campingshaws]

@campingshaws

did you get more eggs form your neighbor?? or more duck eggs?? 

Not yet. I need to continue downsizing (for now) so I can soften DH to the idea of breed pens. My single ray of hope is that yesterday we were at the farm (after selling 13 birds) and I pointed out the sapphire roo. He said "I actually like that one. He looks like a real chicken."

So I'm hoping I can talk him into a sapphire pen and sneak the EEs and CCL into it.

 

[SilverHair]

did you know that you can mimic a root cellar in a big tote?

http://firstrootfarm.com/root-cellaring-101

http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Storing_root_vegetables_in_a_closet/

I've read some articles of doing the same thing, gotta convince mama, she likes the stores, me not so much,

 

[campingshaws]

Ok, genetics people. Here's my plan. I have two "EE" pullets (roo was HRIR/amerecauna, hens were amerecaunas in the wrong colors= EEs?) and a sapphire roo. Will he do anything to enhance the color in their offspring or is that wishful thinking? I also have two legbar pullets that could go in that pen. I want to have "Sowing&Crowing Super Blues" which would be white/spotted/speckled birds thrifty on feed and very blue/green eggs. My EE hens are my best layers, and the only ones still laying through molting.

I don't know, but it sounds cool. I love blue and green eggs. I will look forward to the answer. My EE are second only to my Sapphire in laying. She is a machine.

Dax! Just the person I needed to see. I'm going to pm you.