Isabelle, Isabella chicken hatching eggs WANTED!

[Jorge Catarino]

Good Morning
At the end of the post, I ask if you have leghorn isabella?
At the moment I have 12 eggs available
The price per egg is 3 euros

Available for any question

greetings

I'm sorry I don't understand? I am still looking for Isabella hatching eggs. If you have any available what do you charge per egg and how many do you have available?

I'm not sure what the second part of your post meant. sorry.

 

[Lzy M Homestead]

First off. Welcome to BYC!!! Unfortunately I am in the US so I don't think swapping will work. Thank you so much for the offer! I'm sorry.

 

[Jragon1189]

Seems that those of us who had Isabels moved on to getting autosexing barred-Isabel (Isabella) -- I just noticed that cackle hatchery said 'sold out for the 2018 season'. Seems early to be sold out. You may contact them to see if they can give you any insights.

They really are beautiful chickens --- Hope that you have success in your quest:
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/isabella-leghorn.html

Cackle is selling out of the Isabel Leghorn due to the chicks becoming dehydrated and passing during shipment

 

[ChicKat]

Cackle is selling out of the Isabel Leghorn due to the chicks becoming dehydrated and passing during shipment

That is such a shame.... it did occur to me though, that it would be possible to get back to Isabel/Isabella in 2-generations if you got a barred Isabella -- and CJ Waldon has them.... I think two generations -- I could work out the genetic recipe if anyone wants. :O)

ETA - I got Isabel chicks in the mail from two sources at the beginning of my project, via shipped chicks - so it isn't anything particular with the plumage that makes them dehydrate more quickly IMO. Sorry that cackle is dropping them.

 

[GenevieveHad]

That is such a shame.... it did occur to me though, that it would be possible to get back to Isabel/Isabella in 2-generations if you got a barred Isabella -- and CJ Waldon has them.... I think two generations -- I could work out the genetic recipe if anyone wants. :O)

ETA - I got Isabel chicks in the mail from two sources at the beginning of my project, via shipped chicks - so it isn't anything particular with the plumage that makes them dehydrate more quickly IMO. Sorry that cackle is dropping them.

Wondering if it’s possible to get the Isabella coloring with a Lavender Ameraucana x olive egger (looks like mpc’s Cream legbars but lays green eggs...). Probably a stupid question... but figured I’d ask the experts here @ byc...
Happen to have some eggs in the incubator and have been swooning over the Isabella coloring

 

[ChicKat]

IMO,you could get Isabel/Isabella using a Lavender Ameracuana and your olive egger -- IF that OE had the wild type chick down, which Cream Legbar chicks have.

Your first generation of the cross wouldn't show lavender, because the Lavender from your Ameraucana is recessive and all your first generation chicks would have 1 Lavender gene which theoretically wouldn't show. If your Lavender Ameracuana has extended black on the E-locus -- you would have all black-looking chicks from your first hatch I think. If you carefully mark you chicks to note any that have dorsal stripes showing, those would/could have one wild type gene on the E-locus. ( e+ )

Taking a chick from that hatch and crossing back to your Lavender Ameraucan would give you a hatch with chicks that would 50% of your chicks would have two lavender genes and show lav. Then you would have to work on getting the wildtype (aka Duckwing) into your project to be Isabel/Isabella... A bit tricky at some junctures but you could do it.

not knowing what your Olive egger IS, but guessing if it looks like a Cream Legbar coloration, then you would have wild type on E-Locus.
HTH -- you may want to check also with the Moonshiner here on BYC or some of the other genetics wizards hanging around.
Good luck with your project - OH if your olive egger looks exactly like a Cream Legbar and has barring -- then to get to plain Isabel, you would also need to breed out the barring too.
Here's a link to the chicken calculator
http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html
It can help you to determine all the genotypes and phenotypes that you would get, and how many chicks you would need to hatch. If you don't know the underlying genes of your original chickens, then some speculation/guessing would be needed...