EEs from ChooksChick! new pics in February - page 7

[newchickmom09]

I love Twilights photo, she does have the uglies really bad. I bet she turns out to be very stunning. Starlight is very pretty I can imagine how she looks in sunlight, it is hard to get the coloring and shine in photos.

 

[ChooksChick]

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I have several that have hatched that look like that, and they are just stunning! I can see that Twilight is going to be a real looker!!

 

[LeghornLisa]

How cute!! please keep us posted on their developement

 

[ChooksChick]

How are the babies coming along?

 

[ChooksChick]

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The color on the picture is, in chicken calculator lingo, a "blue patterned gold columbian" (gold columbian = buff columbian)
To get more just use a buff columbian rooster. If you use a black breasted red rooster (BBR, without columbian) the pullet offspring might get more blue pattern on their backs.

If you want an entire gold laced blue chicken then best look at the silver sussex.
Silver sussex are black with a thin silver lace all over. They can be bred along with light sussex so their genotype is probably: E^R/E^Wh Co/Co plus maybe pattern gene Pg
So they are birchen(/wheaten) base with columbian and a few secret ingredients.

If you replace the silver by gold and add blue, your chicken would be full gold laced blue.
I don't know if they would maintain contrast though.
The body lacing does not show up in the chickencalculator, the pictures would look like a "blue patterned gold -necked/birchen"
(Birchen can have some lacing on the upper breast region, which in silver sussex is extended over the entire body)

Another color that shows gold lacing on blue is "blue patterned gold quail".
If your columbian factor is not "pure", eg by crossing with BBR, then that would look like quail pattern but the lacing will not be any good if not true quail.

Another color with gold laced blue would be blue patterned gold flitter (leghorn color).
The flitter is gorgeous, shiny.
The partridge color can be selected for a clear groundcolor rim, again secret ingredient probably.
In blue partridge hens the feather should in fact be blue stippled gold instead of blue, but this blue tends to spread over the entire feather

So do you have gold based roosters available?

No gold roosters right now...but I sense I shall be seeking them out! Now I have a REAL project on my mind...I keep coming up with them and wistfully make chicken recipes, but her neck lacing is soooooo nice I've often wondered if I could make more and try to do a whole bird in it...or make the color intentional.

Thanks so much- I knew you'd be the guy to ask!

So- I found over the past months that another BYCer lives just outside of town (there are several here, actually) and she raises Sussex- all types, all from various, mostly imported lines! What an incredible flock she has!

She has the Buff Sussex roo I need, and I'm tickled today I will be going forward with this project! My goal is to produce a Gold Laced Blue, and I haven't decided what color eggs I want...wouldn't it be neat to created a GLB EE strain that bred true and lay an olive egg? This may be my Life's Work...I'm just neurotic enough to do it. I have a few of her daughters now that look promising, with the another roo, so adding the correct genes may be the only way to go; removing the genes I don't want may be too difficult!

What fun!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Good luck with your project!

 

[firedove]

Sorry I haven't been on everyone, it's been a bit crazy here. I thought I'd post some updated pics of the crew. I decided I'm going to make an EE breeding pen in the spring so all the girls and Sunny will be staying here. All the other boys need to move along, the sooner the better. All the EEs are feeling crowded right now but I don't dare put them with the big birds yet since they are still quite small and the big girls can be nasty to little ones. I have split the chicks into two groups but have nowhere else to put them larger until I can build in the spring. The cage sides have beat up their tails some. So without further ado, here's the crew!

GIRLS?

Anise (formerly Caramel but that name just didn't fit anymore)

Boo

Bippity

June

Starlight

Twilight

BOYS:

Bobby

Boppity

Mack

The star of the show:

Sunny!

 

[ChooksChick]

Hooray!! Thanks for the new pics!

CindyLouWho will be moving in with her Buff Sussex hunk in a week or so to get the project off the ground.

In the meantime, Professor is busy with his flock and we're growing up a few non-standard Ameraucanas in that pen.

I'll show some photos soon of some of the project-chickens we've been working on!

 

[firedove]

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Good luck with the project! I'll look forward to seeing some of those babies! Are you going to start a thread for that? I haven't been on BYC or online in general much lately so if you already have one I haven't seen it. I keep meaning to get more active online again but I just haven't been feeling it.

When this crew grows up a bit more I'll post more pics. Another 10 weeks +/- I could be seeing eggs, it's amazing how time flies!

 

[grammanenan]

CindiLouWho looks nearly identical to the Sweet Potato Quechua hens I hatched two years ago from Yashars eggs