ISO White Marans, Wheaten Marans, Super Blue Egg Layers

[helenbk1966]

Hello chicken people! I am in search of the above breeds, ideally within an hour of Maryland zip code 20853 but willing to have items shipped if I find what I want.

Ideally I would like older pullets, second choice would be sexed female chicks. Third choice would be hatching eggs.

The hatcheries are sold out of the blue egg layers. We did not enjoy our cream legbar (tiny eggs and very unfriendly) and the Aurucana (sp?) was psychotically neurotic, hence my search for the SBL.

Thank you for any help you can give me!

 

[Abriana]

Easter Eggers are generally friendly and lay blue, brown, or green eggs.

 

[helenbk1966]

Easter Eggers are generally friendly and lay blue, brown, or green eggs.

Yes we have 3 EE hens already.

 

[GaryDean26]

The hatcheries are sold out of the blue egg layers. We did not enjoy our cream legbar (tiny eggs and very unfriendly) and the Aurucana (sp?) was psychotically neurotic, hence my search for the SBL.

Thank you for any help you can give me!

SBL are crosses of White Leghorns and Cream Legbars. They should be pretty good layers. Our Legbar Crosses have typically been better layers than our pure Cream Legbars. Yes...some of the Legbars lay tiny eggs. We have cull some for no other reason than that they lay egg in the bottom 50 of the flock on egg size. Some Legbars however lay really big eggs. We have some hens that average egg size over 70 grams. We have only kept a few Legbar Cross hens. Some of the crossed have been on the 70+ gram range. If done right the SBEL's should lay big eggs but if no they will lay small eggs too.

 

[helenbk1966]

Sooooo you wanna sell an of your hens? Or some chicks or some fertile eggs?

 

[GaryDean26]

Sooooo you wanna sell an of your hens? Or some chicks or some fertile eggs?

Well...we don't have either available right now we are down to just 5 pullets and 5 hens in the flock and won't let any of them go until June when the spring hatch winds down. We usually put the cockerels back with the flock the first of January, but we sold both of our breeding cocks after the breeding season last year so we are still trying to prove out potential breeders for this spring right now. In another month or two we should have fertile eggs but right now we are just crossing cockerels to other varieties for test mates to see what they are carrying.

On the left is NOT a normal sized egg. It was a double yolker that we collected last month. On the right was a tiny egg from an 8 month old pullet. The double yolker was a jumbo+ sized egg. You can't even close the lid on the egg carton with that sized egg in it. The pullet egg was a medium to large (weight?).

 

[helenbk1966]

Wow hat is a big egg! But even your small one is much larger than the little fairy eggs our CLB was laying. I’d love to hear from you when you have fertile eggs or chicks if you’re willing to ship. Thanks so much for all the info!

 

[GaryDean26]

I’d love to hear from you when you have fertile eggs or chicks if you’re willing to ship. Thanks so much for all the info!

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