Isbar thread

[ChicKat]

It is quite beautiful cressrb! Just as it should be. Congratulations.

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[Pine Woods Place]

That is very cool.  The place I got my first ones.. they were free-ranging in the shrubs around their house -- and you wouldn't even know they were there--- then they came out from their curiosity and they were almost like a school of fish the way their movements were so fluid and coordinated.  My first quad -almost seemed like they were joined at the hip -- which I attribute to a degree to having such similar genetics....it was like they were all extensions of the same bird.  --   I had them in a low-to-the ground coop - and when I let them out to free-range -- they would all take off and fly up about 5-6 feet in the air... (pigeons) -- Sadly raccoons got two of those females - and since the male is related to the sisters --he was rehomed...(but he is doing a great job with an Isbar flock elsewhere).

It is great when someone appreciates the unique qualities of specific chickens IMO.  :O)

Update: First egg today Just adore this zaney gal. Such an elegant bird. Hard for me to even call her a chicken!!

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opinions on egg color? I expected a dark green, but after reading a few comments on this feed, this mint color may be what I was looking for.

 

[Pine Woods Place]

Update: First egg today Just adore this zaney gal. Such an elegant bird. Hard for me to even call her a chicken!!

 

[ChicKat]

Update: First egg today

Just adore this zaney gal. Such an elegant bird. Hard for me to even call her a chicken!!

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opinions on egg color? I expected a dark green, but after reading a few comments on this feed, this mint color may be what I was looking for.

Tell you what, I think that first egg is really beautiful. I look for saturated colors. It is a true green and very nice. I like all my Isbar eggs to be a different shade of green. I do have one hen from Omega Hills farms that lays the mossy-olive color with freckles -- and I love that I instantly know it is hers.

Your pullet is beautiful! IMO any color of green as long as it is green is perfect from an Isbar. Each hen a different green, to me all the better to tell the eggs apart.

Congrats on the first egg. Nice size too. How old is the pullet?




can't recall if I already posted this... Olga hid eggs from me -- the little hooligan - and it was not until egg 9 that I found them. ETA: the eggs will change color a teeny bit and probably lighten toward the end of her cycle.

 

[Pine Woods Place]

Oh, I love the color of your eggs, and Olga is beautiful! Thank you for the feedback. Her eggs have continued to get a little darker, but no spots like I'd hoped for. She has laid an egg a day(except once), since that first day. I'm not exactly sure what her age is since I aquired her just recently. My best guess is seven to eight months based on what the breeder told me.

 

[ChicKat]

Oh, I love the color of your eggs, and Olga is beautiful! Thank you for the feedback. Her eggs have continued to get a little darker, but no spots like I'd hoped for. She has laid an egg a day(except once), since that first day. I'm not exactly sure what her age is since I aquired her just recently. My best guess is seven to eight months based on what the breeder told me.

My first Isbars didn't lay until 8-months - as I was expecting. The second group laid at an earlier age. One of my Isbars is probably my best layer -- she is also a very small chicken, and her eggs are 2.3 -2.4 oz - which puts them in the extra large category~

Some variations in colors may develop over your hen's laying career -- otherwise -- guess what? You will need to get more Isbars for more color variation.

Thanks for the kind words about Olga.

 

[Pine Woods Place]

My first Isbars didn't lay until 8-months - as I was expecting.  The second group laid at an earlier age.  One of my Isbars is probably my best layer -- she is also a very small chicken, and her eggs are 2.3 -2.4 oz - which puts them in the extra large category~

Some variations in colors may develop over your hen's laying career -- otherwise -- guess what?  You will need to get more Isbars for more color variation.    Thanks for the kind words about Olga.

~~What color is Olga considered, blue? She is so unique. I would have to agree with you about the possibility of getting additional Isbars! Eggs continue to get darker, and they are still daily. What more can I ask for at this point?!?

 

[cressrb]

wow, beautiful!

 

[ChicKat]

~~What color is Olga considered, blue? She is so unique. I would have to agree with you about the possibility of getting additional Isbars! Eggs continue to get darker, and they are still daily. What more can I ask for at this point?!?

Yes, I consider Olga to be blue-- but the sun has bleached the blue a lot - Since Blue,Black and Splash are the Isbar colors---and she isn't the other two---she's blue -- but the sun bleaching her feathers does make them look a bit different.

 

[Pine Woods Place]

wow, beautiful!

Thank you!!