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[mlm Mike]

.@ChickenCanoe Sealant! Huh!
I wonder if it would be feasible, or recommended, to concrete the floor of a run if the birds had access to a natural exercise yard to do what chickens do. It sure would make cleaning the run easier; it could be done with a garden hose, like a concrete dog run.

Are you saying that my RSL hens, who have always laid light-to-medium brown eggs, should be laying darker eggs when they're running with a BCM rooster? I haven't found that to be the case. My hens lay the same color eggs they always have.
No the offspring of the RSL/BCM should lay darker eggs.

Good morning.....

Hi Phil!

 

[Chaos18]

Three is a good number to have.

If it's a trio it's a great number to have

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Here is a list the name with the most votes i will choose

 

[mlm Mike]

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That would be ideal.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

No the offspring of the RSL/BCM should lay darker eggs.

Hi Phil! 

Howdy Mike....

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Sealant! Huh!
I wonder if it would be feasible, or recommended, to concrete the floor of a run if the birds had access to a natural exercise yard to do what chickens do. It sure would make cleaning the run easier; it could be done with a garden hose, like a concrete dog run.

Are you saying that my RSL hens, who have always laid light-to-medium brown eggs, should be laying darker eggs when they're running with a BCM rooster? I haven't found that to be the case. My hens lay the same color eggs they always have.

Not what I'm saying at all. The hen's genetics determine her eggs' color. The rooster only contributes semen. What I was saying is that his daughters' egg color will be affected by his and the hen's genetics. The egg color comes from the pigment in the uterus, the semen is already inside the egg by then and has no effect on egg color.

Concrete is easier to clean than dirt but not nirvana. If it isn't covered with some kind of bedding the feces will stick to it like glue.
I have one coop with a concrete floor and another with half of the run concrete. It was the remaining slam of an old 150 year old machine shed so it is cracked and badly pitted.
I want to put a topping on it before I let the chickens get onto it if I have the time because right now with the deep pits and cracks, it's hard to clean.

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: How are the ducks doing? You recovered from your drive?

 

[Pensmaster]

Morning

 

[mlm Mike]

Morning

Hi Pensmaster!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

No the offspring of the RSL/BCM should lay darker eggs.

Hi Phil!

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Egg color genetics is very complicated. I had a Welsummer that laid extremely dark eggs. I was excited to get some of her chick when I crossed her with a Penedesenca rooster out of a very dark egg. Her offsprings' eggs were very light so I assume the genes that determine the egg color in those two breeds cancelled each other out.