From egg to chick!

[ElfenLied89]

Which one is Snape? Sorry, I'm not caught up with these chickens! They are beautiful, though!

What my eldest child refers too as the BBC. Big black chicken.

 

[ElfenLied89]

Snape is the Big black cockerel. Hook is the Crested, silkie mix cockerel with the crossbeak

Yes! Or as my eldest says. The BBC lmao.

 

[ElfenLied89]

I was thinking Atropos was black!?! She's blue!
Ok, colors then, black x Blue = 50/50 black and blues, splash x Blue = 50/50 splash and blue or blue x Blue = 50% blue, 25% black, 25% splash plus maybe some leakage since she has some, and who knows what other surprises!

That's blue? She looked like a light grayish black to me!

 

[ElfenLied89]

That's the laying girl, isn't it? Wonderful, they're creating their group! Here's to lots of cute moments together, and maybe even her going broody and raising a family!

Yes. He still tries to get other ladies, but she is the only one who sticks with him constantly.

 

[fluffycrow]

What my eldest child refers too as the BBC. Big black chicken.

What my eldest child refers too as the BBC. Big black chicken.

Pfff, the whole family has humour it seems

 

[fluffycrow]

Yes. He still tries to get other ladies, but she is the only one who sticks with him constantly.

Splendid! She has made her choice, it seems. As the older girls start mating, and eventually laying, they will make their choices as well. Personally, I value a female's choice more than my own when it comes to males

 

[2ndTink]

I would love to take in Grinch. And whoever you ship with him for company. Try to keep it at 5. Lmao. Oh and look at my next post. Snape and his gf.

Grinch and his packing peanut buddies! All boys of course

 

[2ndTink]

That's blue? She looked like a light grayish black to me!

I believe you just described a blue chicken

I'll laugh, but what I don't know anything about at this time is grey genetics, I know there are grey silkies and I no zero about what makes them grey or what the color truly looks like. The photos I've see they seem to have a pattern to their feathers.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

That's blue? She looked like a light grayish black to me!

Yes, that's blue! The blue color variety is the color that I would call "slate." It is gray with a lot of blue in it, basically.

 

[fluffycrow]

Same. For the first four years of chicken keeping, I wasn't all that aware of broodiness, and it was not something that I really wanted to have happen. After that point, I became very much interested in having one of my birds go broody, and for 7 years I tried many different things, all with no success. Then Cruella came along. You all know who Cruella is at this point, I can't stop talking about her! She went broody almost a month or less after laying her first egg. That time she was unsuccessful, amd broke after 14 days (her eggs were on day 8 or 9). In her next attempt, she was successful, and with a little bit of help from me, she hatched three Tsouloufati chicks. I love this bird to pieces. Maybe weird, but the first time I saw Cruella, I knew she was destined to do something big, and boy was I underestimating herView attachment 3738928View attachment 3738929View attachment 3738932View attachment 3738936. I remember you have an OEGB male, couldn't you get one or two females? They'd make a fine breeding flock, and the females should go broody for sure! Hatchery LFs tend to loose their instincts, as is the case with my Tsouloufates

Oops, apologies. This was a response to @SwampPrincessChick 's post about the broody problem. For some reason it didn't quote the post...