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OHfarmerswife said:


My first Isbar egg. Purchased 3 hens yesterday. Amazed that this egg was laid as it was a 4 hour trip home.
I love this breed already!!!
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That is a nice example of Isbar egg color. It is very saturated at the beginning of a clutch on mine and then later on in the season the colors lighten. Congrats on getting Isbars -- they are a super breed -- and there should be a lot more of them running around the USA IMO
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Beautiful egg OH!
5 out of 8 isbar eggs at first candle....a bit soon I k ow, but so excited to see such strong growth in these little beauties....
 
ChicKat said:
That is a nice example of Isbar egg color.  It is very saturated at the beginning of a clutch on mine and then later on in the season the colors lighten.  Congrats on getting Isbars -- they are a super breed -- and there should be a lot more of them running around the USA IMO
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Thanks ChicKat I am very excited and if all goes as planned next year there will be lots more Isbar owners in my area!
 
ChicKat said:
What a pretty hen, and what a nice photo.  If you could get that same pose, with those flowers in the background and the hills/mountains - just in focus (see how her moving leg is blurred -- 'motion blur') -- You should send it in to the BYC Calendar 'contest next fall.   -- would love to look at a beautiful black Isbar photo of Isabel for a month in 2017!!

--- One of the charming things about the photo is the quality of light -- and that same soft light makes it more difficult for the camera to catch her image sharply...(and chickens are so so so hard to photograph) --
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Love your pic and love your Isbar. 
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Thank you. Yes, she's one of my most difficult to photograph :) Thank you, she is so friendly and fun!
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Thanks for that info. Interesting. I have only had Isbars for a year now, but it is one breed that will be a keeper in my flock. So far they have everything for me - beauty, sweet nature, hardy,
crazy egg production, gorgeous mint speckled eggs!
 
The girls were laying even in the couple days we had negative temperatures overnight. Hardy is an understatement. On a side note I may have fixed my pecking issue I was having. They had plenty of things to do in the coop/run, but I added a bale of hay and a flock block over the weekend and it seems to have made a world of a difference. Aside from the boredom aspect, they were just always in each other's faces, always at pecking level. They do have a perch of two, but even then, they were just always up in each other's business. I put the hay right in the middle of the run (8x12), and along with the flock block it just really breaks things up, seems to have helped everyone. Fingers crossed that the success last log term.
 
I do the same thing when my girls start picking on each other. The flock block is great. Sometimes I rig a way to hang a whole head of cabbage from the coop top. That really keeps them busy.
Just switching things around sometimes helps. Kinda like changing the furniture in your house!
 

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