Iowa Blues - Breed thread and discussion

[BlackBrookPoultry]

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I will take some pictures of my rooster with a real camera (not my phone) and send it to that email address.

 

[karimw]

Yes, my IA Blues have only been laying a couple months so their eggs are pretty small yet. I currently have 2 breeding roosters in my flock and neither one is really what I would like to see, but there just aren't enough of them to be too picky right now.

This one has too much white, but I am hoping he'll improve the quality of the silver and pattern on the hens. He also does not have the brassy color on his saddle and hackle that the others have.

Here is a sample of my flock - not a very good picture for color but you can see the nice full body and upright tails that I would want to see. The rooster on the far right is the other flock sire I kept. The one I traded to Trish looks very much like him. Good size and pattern, but they have that mossy stain on their saddle and hackle feathers. The runt on the far left is a mystery

I'll be setting a bunch after Easter, so we'll see. I'm also curious to see how Hurley's and FlashPointFarm's hatches turn out

 

[schroeder vanhorner]

Trish and Kari
thanks for taking time to answer my questions
i feel better about going through the 1st hatch
when the hatch happens {if all goes well}
i will post photos

thanlks again schroeder



Jakob Van
could you post a photo of your roosters back
i would like to see what there is for coloring , penciling ????
Kari and Trish tried to explaine it to me a ...photo would help me understand
there is so many of these stange new terms
im open for any advice you will give

thanks schroeder

 

[Tiramisu]

Wow, this thread took off. I have 1 roo and 3 hens. They are pretty small as everyone else says, but I have noticed them grow a bit more over the past month. Only 1 has good lacing, or at least so you can actually tell it has lacing, you can barely tell on the other two. I will have to get pics of them today/tomorrow. The roo does seem to have pretty good lacing to me, so it should improve the lacing on the hens, hopefully. And 1 or 2 eggs from them have hatched today, that are pure Iowa blue and not mixed with the other birds they are with..we have 2 Iowa blue mixes that hatched. We have 3 dozen eggs collected up. I can't really tell the eggs apart so I just grab small ones and hope they are from the Iowa blues lol...also some are buttercup eggs.

 

[schroeder vanhorner]

kari
i tried to candle my eggs and i think they are alive YEA !!!!!
i didnt see the blood ring i did see the bubble and ???? veins shadows ????
like isaid i dont know
thanks schroeder

 

[FlashPointFarm]

Schroeder, here's some good pix for you on candling.

http://www.currentprotocols.com/protocol/mc15g01/figure-15g14

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261876

 

[schroeder vanhorner]

trish
the sketch was more helpful than the photos
im going to ask one of my friends friend to come look
then i will feel better with a second opinion
since i was the 1st and i dont know .........
schroeder

 

[Hurley]

My Iowa Blue eggs are incubating happily. Of the 32, I have 21 developing which is pretty good considering it looks like the PO wasn't very easy on them. Couple ruptured air cells, a couple scrambleds. I'm tickled. Week and a half to go, woot! Should be receiving some chicks from Sandhill right about that same time, hopefully. Have 10 or so coming from them along with some miscellaneous other breeds for the laying pen (I like my colorful egg basket.

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Great photos and discussion! Can't wait to see what the next couple years bring, but so tickled to see interest in the breed growing.

 

[karimw]

I'm going to start collecting eggs now for my Post Easter IA Blue hatch. I wonder how many I can cram in my Genesis1588? They are small eggs after all

 

[FlashPointFarm]

I fit 54 in my 1588, in egg cartons. LOL