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Here's Margaret Until Proven Otherwise, who is just so happy to be outside again!

I just love Margie's eyes.

Glam shot!

 

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I love the last picture!(in the first set you posted)

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

And I took some pictures today, mainly of my little girls and Margie.

Nothing makes ya feel better than time with the girls.

Rangi the Ancona, of course, who was practically standing on my head while I took Po's picture.

What a girl.

Huka the Silver Lakenvelder, who apparently did not want her picture taken:




Ihi the Golden Campine--she looks like a relative of racinchickens' Hamburg!

Roha the Exchequer Leghorn:




Whiri the Light Brown Leghorn--she is so, so pretty!

Marama the Egyptian Fayoumi, having a rest:




Po boy the black Cochin bantam:




Here's Roha again.

She's always sticking her face in the camera.




And Whiri hiding her face while Frou-Frou, my beloved splash Marans, tries to get in on her dust bath.

What a gorgeous group you have !!

 

[Leahs Mom]

And I took some pictures today, mainly of my little girls and Margie.

Nothing makes ya feel better than time with the girls.

Rangi the Ancona, of course, who was practically standing on my head while I took Po's picture.

What a girl.

I love the black! I'm hoping to hatch some black flowered Swedish Flower Hens this time. Have 5 eggs that came from a gal that has predominantly black SFH so I'm hoping!

They look a lot like this girl in coloring.

Broody is setting and due to hatch over the weekend

 

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Oh, best of luck, Leahs Mom! I didn't know Swedish Flower Hens came in so many different colorations! (Was it you that posted a bird that looked just like my Rangi a while back, and then we were comparing pictures?)

 

[Leahs Mom]

I don't think it was me...but I have been know to have occasional senior moments

 

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Not to worry, I didn't remember, either! I did a quick search and it looks like it was a member that isn't active here anymore (or maybe they're still active and have just been drowned out by all the other posts. Who knows):

[COLOR=FF0000]SFH- She was Penguin but I call her Penny now. She looks so much like Rangi to me[/COLOR]

Aw, long lost sisters!

 

[kabhyper1]

You guys have such pretty birds!!!

Since you are all so knowledgeable about genetics and such, could someone tell me what color my Peaches is?
She is an EE. She lays peach colored eggs. Her head isn't dirty. It's actually gray.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

I've officially gone crazy and won the lavender cuckoo Cochin bantam eggs. Now I need o find some lavender Cochin bantams to breed them to to diversify the lines. But then again, think I will be waiting to see if they actually hatch! Lol

Here's hoping he sends an extra 6 eggs and you get 2 roos and 10 pullets. I will be very interested to see how it turns out. Gorgeous birds.

John

 

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Racinchickins - Such a beautiful flock! Like eye candy! I love seeing everyone'w chickens and other fowl.

Am I correct in thinking that the cream legbars will lay blue eggs? What are the legbars' personalities supposed to be like - aggressive? laid-back? curious? tending to go broody? friendly toward humans? I am considering what chickens we will purchase when the time comes and I don't see any info on cream legbars. Why are they called cream legbars if they aren't cream-colored?

Hi. Yes, you are correct. They are blue egg layers. They get that and their crests from a chilean bird in their ancestry. The party line is that they can tend to flighty, are not broody, and are somewhat like leghorns. I also follow the thread on cream legbars on here. I've seen plenty of reports of friendly, active birds. And also quite a few reports on broodiness. And most people are quite happy with the egg size and amount of eggs they lay. The one's I took pics of are about 8 weeks old, and they are my oldest, so I can't speak from too much experience myself. They are a relatively new introduction to the US imported from the UK. Look on the Greenfire Farms site if you want to get some info on them. As far as color goes, they are cream colored, but there are also some barring and red genes floating around in there too, currently there are a lot of gold colored birds as well, but they don't meet the standard, and people are actively trying to breed that out of them. Ideally, they are cream, lay lots of large blue eggs and have a medium sized comb and crest. I really like their look and can't wait to start my breeding program with them.