Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Failure?? I guess that depends on your view point and/or definition of failure. By some measures, it was a rousing success!

Sure, take the poultry side of it every time!

 

[bgmathteach]

Also, I think some of the EE ideas is how you end up with things like Bob’s plentiful browns. Crossing EE and EE just reduces the chances of greens and some people seen to think that the EE is a breed unto itself, not a hybrid with an Ameraucana parent. It’s why the Sapphires are a more reliable cross for coloured eggs from a hybrid with the dominant Blue gene. This is clearly easier and more fun than all the work I need to get doing… lol

Actually, TRUE Ameraucaunas are supposed to lay blue eggs and throw offsprings that lay blue eggs.....
http://ameraucanabreedersclub.org/history.html

The trouble is that most birds sold through hatcheries as 'Ameraucaunas' are actually EEs, not true Ameraucaunas, so you get blue and green eggs from them. Ameraucaunas don't have the gene for brown, hence only get blue eggs, of varying depth of blue.

 

[bgmathteach]

The worth of them: and those who laid them

Priceless!

Did you click the link????

 

[bgmathteach]

Any idea how long before I know? I am obviously watching closely but she doesn’t stay still very often so it is quite hard to see.

Just a regular old human blister can take 2-3 weeks to heal if not tampered with...maybe that long from time of frostbite? @BY Bob might have a better idea, given his background & working in a hospital setting.

 

[RoyalChick]

Did you click the link????

Oh I missed that. Lovely!

 

[BY Bob]

I don’t think Dotty is going to lose all of that second point. The one that was yellow. WDYT?

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This is going to be very interesting to watch as she comes to the end. There does seem to be some regeneration going on.

 

[RoyalChick]

This is going to be very interesting to watch as she comes to the end. There does seem to be some regeneration going on.

I need to go back and find exactly when it happened.

 

[BY Bob]

Your right, the track record is terrible. Even when I got my original 6 Marans, 4 boys 2 girls. I want to know why the world thinks I need so many boys? I love them, but I really cannot keep every single boy that comes along. I hear of people complaining they have too many hens and cannot get a boy. Can I please have that problem this year...please.

I truly wish that happens for you.

 

[BY Bob]

You could find yourself with several new ladies....

That would be fine

 

[BY Bob]

And I should add I sometime wonder about crossing Sammy to one of his Hatchmates… it’s not really incest, maybe. Who knows how many different genetics his breeder had in the pen

I would give it a whirl at some point. It happens in nature for certain.