Just In Time Hatching Egg AUCTION and BIN Thread

[KernH]

So are the eggs bluer or is the production just better?

I want to know this also. Kern

 

[ladycat]

So are the eggs bluer or is the production just better?

I want to know this also. Kern

The eggs are sky blue.

 

[GAMarans]

I'm happy to be an enabler!! I will put more Sebright eggs on in a couple of days. I just don't like to ship at the end of the week. I will put different eggs on tomorrow. Maybe Guinea, or duck, or d'Uccle, or silkies....or an interesting mix~

Ack ... guinea!??! Really?? Crap, now I'll have to stay glued to the computer hitting F5 every 3 seconds.

 

[dheltzel]

Don't do it! Those Sebrights were a Huge temptation! I Can't, I just can't... My bater is way to full running a staggered hatch already...

You're overlooking the obvious solution here . . . another incubator.

 

[KernH]

The eggs are sky blue.

Does that mean bluer or the same as the regular Legbars? Kern

 

[bosingleton]

Does that mean bluer or the same as the regular Legbars? Kern

Speaking from my experience, they are lighter. You are crossing white with blue, hence light blue. But they are better layers of bigger eggs than CCL. So I would say they are "less blue" than Legbars.

 

[KernH]

Speaking from my experience, they are lighter. You are crossing white with blue, hence light blue. But they are better layers of bigger eggs than CCL. So I would say they are "less blue" than Legbars.

Thanks for the info. Seems logical, I just don't know much about genetics and thought there might be something odd going on. Kern

 

[cjwaldon]

My "sapphires" lay eggs that are "bluer" than cclbs eggs, but not lighter, whereas cclbs eggs often look more minty green to my eye, but both are well saturated with color. They are excellent layers of very large eggs. I got one last week that tied my all time record weight of 110 grams.

 

[dheltzel]

Does that mean bluer or the same as the regular Legbars? Kern

I raised some SBEL's last year, Black Ameracauna over commercial WH hens. They are great layers of large, light blue eggs. I believe they are significantly lighter than my Ams and CCL's (which I have a hard time telling apart), but that could be because I was expecting that. The commercial strains of leghorns have genes that significantly whiten the shells, because as white as possible is the goal. These seem to be dominant and also lighten the blue color. I imagine it like a coat of white paint (like brown would be a coat of brown paint), though I doubt that is what is really happening. The hens themselves are mostly white with some black leakage, but they have the cute faces of an Ameracauna.

This discussion has piqued my interest in this and I'm going to try to grab one of the SBEL eggs to compare with the other 2 blue ones and see if I can get some pics to compare.

I like the light blue, but I'd prefer a darker blue egg, so this year's cross is with Barred Holland hens (white eggs, but not super white like a leghorn) and a blue Am roo. This gives both blue and black chicks, hopefully with some of the "cheek-puff cuteness" of the Ams and also makes them sex linked (though the blue chicks obscure the head spots and I have to wait for first feathers to see barring). The pea comb for extra winter hardiness is a plus too. I don't have any pics of what they will grow into, but the chicks are cute and have been selling well to people who want blue eggs in a sexable chick, for cheaper than a CCL. Actually, a lot of people get both sexlink and CCL pullet chicks.

 

[TJChickens]

D'uccle please!!!!! Whats colors?

Right now our porcelain d'Uccles are laying well. We are down to one pair of white d'Uccles and she is laying. The mille fleurs have not quite started back up yet. In the summer we will have golden neck and black/browns....

So, next d'Uccles I list will be porcelain.