Granny's gone and done it again

[campingshaws]

Thanks camping.  I will have to research!

I found this link https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...he-color-of-my-chickens-blue-isabel-porcelain post #18 is from ChicKat. Her project thread is incredible. When I told her I was a dumb baby about genetics she gave me extremely simple diagrams. I'm slowly but surely pulling through it. Anyway, she has tons of very technical notes on her thread.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ject-and-genetic-discussion/180#post_18244810

 

[nubbard]

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Wth?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Oy - do I have some catching up to do! Been a busy week trying to adjust to the new job and the change to the routine that brought with it.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

So what exactly is the Isabel color? I've looked at pictures, and it looks like a barred porcelain or barred lavender with yellow leakage (sometimes).


Look what came up when I googled "porcelain chicken"

LOL!

Ah, yes, good ol' Fauxcahontas!

Here we are!






She/he did not want to comply.

What a doll! Can't wait to see an all-grown-up photo!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

We got new cabinets for the kitchen & dh & me spent 4 hours putting in 2 of the 11 of them. Finally got every thing level & screwed in. No wall or floor in our kitchen is level & we knew it before we started. Didn t feed chickens yesterday so 2 pens helped themselves to the eggs. Ban on selling chickens in alabama. Keep them penned up, have top on pens. Got to get popcorn in the pen & I will be compliant. Dang leghorn flies out the door as soon as I open it. May have to keep her in a cage within the pen. Lots of trouble for a contrary hen. Of course this is the one that gd claims & has named.

Oy - what a lot of work - but it will look good when it's all done!
Regarding the leghorn - is there room to rig a second door (think of the gates at a dog park where you go through one gate, close it, and then open the other gate - so that if anyone bolts they aren't able to go beyond the other gate)? Alternatively, maybe one of those "magic mesh" things they sell for using on a sliding glass door opening during the summer.....it would provide a stopper for her to allow you to get in the door without having to try to beat her in/out.

So I have a question! I have a Buff Orp pullet that has missing feathers on her back. I thought it was Daveys doing so I separated him Sunday from the girls. She's been in the nest box for 30+ minutes and I just seen her pull out a wad of feathers from her back and add to the nest. I've seen her adjust the eggs about 5x now but she's not getting up. Is she trying to go broody? I thought they just pulled feathers from stomach area?

While they usually take breast/belly feathers, some birds get their wires a bit crossed and/or get a bit too enthusiastic about "feathering the nest".

 

[Granny Hatchet]

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Wth?

you find that in the nest ? Looks like it cracked and tried to repair itself. IDK ..

 

[Granny Hatchet]

another wasted day. slept away. Makes me mad when I do that. Im getting nothing done.

 

[miss heny]

I am starting to finally unpack after six months of keeping a majority of my stuff in boxes, got half of them done but I hit my brick wall :/ need also more storage for craft and doll junk ^^; parents getting a bed frame for me next week so I can get my bed off the floor...then gotta decide what to do on the walls. Been giving the all clear to do whatever as long as it isn't a eyesore or black.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I am starting to finally unpack after six months of keeping a majority of my stuff in boxes, got half of them done but I hit my brick wall

need also more storage for craft and doll junk ^^; parents getting a bed frame for me next week so I can get my bed off the floor...then gotta decide what to do on the walls. Been giving the all clear to do whatever as long as it isn't a eyesore or black.

use some storage containers that fit under the bed.

 

[miss heny]

Probably will or plastic store drawer cart thingies. Gotta also figure out my collections displays