Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

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Bantam EE has stopped being broody. Her nails got pretty long so now she can finally wear them down doing normal chicken stuff. Got another light brown pullet egg, not sure who it’s from but the barred rock and buckeye were both seen checking out the nest boxes recently. Frizzle is getting most of her feathers back, finally. Several older hens are molting and slowing on egg production.

Blue clean legged pullet (either LF or grey OE daughter) lays a light brown egg. If I can confirm the other blue lays a green egg then I’ll know who their mothers are.

Lastly I’m a little worried about the 2 bresse daughters. The mostly white one lays just fine but the spotted one has laid several soft shelled eggs that are already broken, possibly inside her. She seems a little unwell. I planned to sell the white one but now I’m thinking I best keep her as a backup.

 

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Silver OE daughter is confirmed to lay one of the darker olive eggs. Has small white spots where I assume the pores are.

 

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Looks like I was wrong about the sapphire sky pullet. Watched her pop out an olive green egg. Right is the black EE X BJG who I though laid brown eggs but seems I was wrong about that too.

The goldish green ones may actually be from the feather legged blue, who I believe is from the grey OE. So many of them lay nearly the same shade of green now I’m having a hard time keeping them straight! I need to figure out who is laying what so I don’t accidentally sell off one of the better birds.

 

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More new layers and I’m having a hard time keeping track! A lot of brown all look about the same. I keep missing whoever’s laying the golden green eggs, the mystery olive egg, and a spotted brown egg. I’ve selected 10 pullets to sell and I want to make sure I don’t accidentally get rid of the pullets laying unique eggs. My current mystery eggs.

Goldie, the brown OE’s daughter lays a similar shade to her mom. Her first egg was covered in spots but they are now a solid goldish color.

Saw the dark brahma daughter who has nice penciling pop out a massive double yolk egg. Hers is the middle, large fowl on the left and normal sized pullet egg on the right.

SLW and brown OE have stopped laying likely for the molt. Pretty much all the older birds are dropping feather. I’ve switched them back to starter mash along with flock raiser pellets and a side of layer pellets.