Well, I have tons of folks wanting these lately!
For some reason day-olds seem to be the way they are wanted, rather than eggs. Many of the folks asking have had terrible luck hatching (I know I did last year with eggs shipped to me)- has anyone else noticed that the Lavender eggs do more poorly than others in shipment? I haven't had any complaints about my eggs, but folks have come to me after buying on
ebay and whatnot many times, having had terrible trouble.
In other news, the Isabel F1s are getting pretty big and I'm shocked to find fantastic lacing in many of them!
I knew the offspring would have both the gold and the black showing through in this generation, but I hardly expected this:
This is at the base of the neck as the teenager feathers aer coming in.
This is the way they look at about 10 weeks. Not that different from my double-laced Barnevelders, but gold and black, rather than brown and black.
More of the same in another pullet.
Who knew?! I may end up with Isabel-laced rather than the Columbian I expected. This is a fun adventure. If any of you who have gotten eggs from me have some of these growing out, do share- I guess when someone pipes up I'll start a dedicated thread.
I'm incubating my first batch of Go-lizas (5 mo-old Goliath over Eliza) now- they will be a Split with a third line of new blood added. Eliza's my best Lavender hen, and Goliath is my gargantuan young Black cockerel with fantastic rump action. His hiney is a ginormous fluff-wagon.
He's standing next to a giant front-load washing machine.
I'm not a small girl, really- look at the size of his cankles!! Ignore the weird face...kid took a pic when I wasn't looking & was in the middle of talking.
Very nice! Any more pips or chirping going on?
