INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[kwhites634]

People tell me to act my age. I don't know how... I've never been this old before.

Do you lay awake at night dreaming this stuff up?

You should be on the stage. I think there's one leaving town this afternoon.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I've got a rep to uphold, ya know.

Hey, I've actually got some chicken news ( who'd have ever thunk it, on this thread). Along about Feb or March, I'm considering hatching a few chicks from my one hen that lays a pretty dark egg...a lot darker than the other five. I'm looking for a good-looking BCM to put in with them to replace that cantankerous RSL rooster I have now...tired of having to be on guard against him sneaking up behind me. I'm hoping a BCM will darken up the eggs from the whole flock. Should that be the case, or is egg color strictly up to the hen, regardless of the rooster covering her? If everything's on the hen, I'll get a pair of BCM's.

I don't know whether I'll incubate the eggs or not; depends on whether one of the girls cooperates again.

hey whites... if you hadnt looked at this you really should and anyone else into egg coloring
Scratch Cradle

GMS1: Genetics of Egg Color

https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/gms1-genetics-of-egg-color/

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[Laurel Meadows]

People tell me to act my age. I don't know how... I've never been this old before.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I've got a rep to uphold, ya know.

Hey, I've actually got some chicken news ( who'd have ever thunk it, on this thread). Along about Feb or March, I'm considering hatching a few chicks from my one hen that lays a pretty dark egg...a lot darker than the other five. I'm looking for a good-looking BCM to put in with them to replace that cantankerous RSL rooster I have now...tired of having to be on guard against him sneaking up behind me.  I'm hoping a BCM will darken up the eggs from the whole flock. Should that be the case, or is egg color strictly up to the hen, regardless of the rooster covering her?  If everything's on the hen, I'll get a pair of BCM's.

I don't know whether I'll incubate the eggs or not; depends on whether one of the girls cooperates again.

I'm not a biologist, but I think the rooster does his thing on the inside of the egg. The hen determines the egg color. The chicks of such breeding should give darker eggs. That's how I think you get darker eggs.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Wow... thanks!!! Looks like I've gotten a threefer already today! Whew... I feel tired already!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Wow... thanks!!! Looks like I've gotten a threefer already today! Whew... I feel tired already!!!

Joey was that even a half hour?

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Joey was that even a half hour?

Exactly 36 minutes!

 

[Laurel Meadows]

Wow... thanks!!! Looks like I've gotten a threefer already today! Whew... I feel tired already!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Age is a state of mind, not a date on a calendar. Where there's no mind, there's no aging...I think we're both safe

I think so as well..... I sure as h3ll plan on havin fun till I fall into my last slumber whites

 

[kwhites634]

I think so as well..... I sure as h3ll plan on havin fun till I fall into my last slumber whites

There ya go! If you can't have a little fun, what's the use?