Granny's gone and done it again

[Nomadicus]

The Prairie Bluebells, bring essentially Easter Eggers and thus, basically, "mutts," are not auto sexing. Each one may look different when grown.

The Sapphire Gems are pretty blue chickens that will lay brown eggs.

But what I need to fill in my brown egg layers I have is some with blue and green eggs.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Do they by any chance had the genetic defect in them that a lot of the colored egg l layers have known as scissor beak?

I've had Easter Eggers for the last 13 years and have never seen a case of scissor beak. I've gotten chicks from various hatcheries with no problems.

 

[h2oratt]

one finished high school at the same time the other started 1st grade.

That’s crazy my mom did that to me. Only she had a baby when I was senior. Then she had another one. I was so embarrassed

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I only got six of each, but none of them have cross-beak. We've never seen cross-beak here in any bird, of any breed.

 

[Nomadicus]

This is the note for the Easter Egger chickens from the hatchery. It will turn up sooner or later. 1 out of hundred is not bad by $'s and sense but when you have to put down one that can't eat that is hard.
NOTE: It should be noted that this breed has an inherent genetic beak issue. 1 out of 100 chicks as they grow may have some variance in severity of scissor beak/cross beak.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Which hatchery?

 

[Nomadicus]

I only got six of each, but none of them have cross-beak. We've never seen cross-beak here in any bird, of any breed.

I had one Delaware that had scissor beak. She was my beloved pet. I fell outside near the carport and she came running to me and cried like I've never heard a chicken do before or since. When I finally got my wife's attention to come and help she stayed in her way trying to help too. That little girl of mine died later that night. I found her dead under her roost the next morning. When she was a young pullet just starting to get out and wander around the place she would come out to where I was working to inspect I guess or probably just being nosey. I'll miss her forever.

 

[Nomadicus]

Which hatchery?

Cackle. It's in the genes of the birds and they are the same from all hatcheries. Some may just be honest and tell you. Others fail to mention it. At a 1% rate the chances of getting one buying a handful might be slim but someone will get that 1 out of a hundred.

 

[Nomadicus]

My Delaware pullet came from Murray McMurray out of Iowa.

 

[Cynthia12]

I have the roos and hens to produce red sex links now and will start hatching those in a few more weeks.

You'll love them. You will have more that one pet on your hands.