"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[mzstre]

You will have no problems at all then.

Come and join the pea connoisseurs on this thread where we are talking about pea laying, incubating, hatching, etc.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/735197/peafowl-for-2013

Thank you!

I have some heritage reds, easter eggers, wheaten ameraucanas, silkies, and basque eggs hatching in the next week.  Yesterday I hatched a beautiful little chick from a cross--my emu looking gold laced wyandotte over my lavender orp girls--this chick is a dark lavender and has the rose comb like the wyandottes.  Perhaps I can work some crosses from this generation back to the wyandottes to get lavender wyandottes going.  It is a beautiful little chick.  Three more in the incubator due to hatch later this week, too.

I have to get all these chicks hatched soon so I'll have room to add in the turkey eggs next week.

*sigh*  Then I PROMISE I am going to leave the incubators empty until I get those Pea eggs.  Well, okay,...I may add a chick or two while I'm waiting...

How are the Basque eggs coming along?

 

[grambysfarm]

Terri and Ashley looky what I got this morning Needless to say its got alot of color




Hi all and to any newbies

Cold and windy up north this morning sure needs to warm back up

Awesome! I've been curious to see what you'd get. I can't make out the color(s). The pic is a little blurry, but, do I see tan on the back? The beak looks right for a buff.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

If my rabbits would go broody, I would put eggs under them as well. I haven't figured out how to do that just yet.

Next thing we know, you'll have them under the dogs, goats and sheep! It'll be like an Easter egg hunt to find your eggs. LOL

 

[grambysfarm]

Awesome! I've been curious to see what you'd get. I can't make out the color(s). The pic is a little blurry, but, do I see tan on the back? The beak looks right for a buff.

Mike, Based on the markings of your little gosling there I believe that you may have a saddleback. Here is a gray saddleback gosling I hatched a couple years ago so that you can have a comparison.



Notice the markings on the beak. Yours appears to have the same markings but, from what I could make out, appears to be much lighter which may suggest a buff.


For comparison, these are two white goslings that I hatched last year. Notice the beaks -- they do not have dark markings.



My best guess at this moment is that you have a female buff saddleback gosling. Based on my understanding of the recessive buff gene in Sebbies, I would guess that the buff color (assuming gosling is buff color) is being passed on from the gander and therefore your gosling would be a female. With that said, I don't know what to make of your hen with the brown feather. I've always heard that if the female has the recessive buff gene that she would be buff colored herself. Supposedly, females don't "carry" the buff color gene -- only males do. The next few weeks will be interesting to see how it feathers out.

Ashleigh, what's your opinion?

 

[chickenbelle]

Thank you!
How are the Basque eggs coming along?

Six Basque eggs went into lockdown today.

 

[chickenbelle]

Pea eggs you lay on their sides in your bator. let the auto-turner do its' job and -- and, in addtion to that, this is what my mentor, the late, great Burtis Craft (Deerman) taught me -- you turn them "lengthwise" 3 x daily -- it doesn't matter about your work hours-- just get those 3 turns lengthwise in daily -- it is the key to boosting your hatch rate. Your times you listed will do just fine. Keep temps & humidity just as you do chicken eggs. I was "winging" it all last year, but I hatched 14 out of 18 pea eggs so I know what I did works, or at least it did for me. And - I had staggered hatches -- I used my Brinsea Octagon for incubating & when I hit lockdown, moved those eggs into my ancient styrofoam Hovnabator 1602N, which worked fine for lockdown/hatch.

I never hatched them upright in cartons -- they are too big for that -- always kept them laying on their sides.

I heard the breeding calls today, so it won't be long now until we see pea eggs!

So I lay them on the turner--just on their sides instead. Then I turn them 3 x tip to big end. I think I have it. After seeing the peas Jeff brought home my kids are all excited about the day we drive over to your place to get eggs. They can't wait to see the peas you have. LOL

And now....thanks to crazy folks at school giving me a wild bunny...MY KIDS ARE BEGGING FOR RABBITS!!!!! Geez. All I really know about rabbits is that my brother bred a few for Ag in high school--HUGE white ones and for some reason they weren't taking and I had to go outside with a string tied around the females tail and hold it up for her so she could get inseminated from the giant male. What a way for a teenager to spend a weekend.

Not sure I want to visit that experience again. If I decide to do it, someone here will have to tell me what kind of rabbits to get for them. They will eventually have offspring that will be eaten.

 

[sgibbe1]

Isn't Gracie so nice!

Glad that you found us. To give you a heads up about me......I'm scared of silkies and showgirls, but you can join the thread anyway.

Thank you all! Gracie is awesome and really went out of her way to help me get what I wanted! I am so thankful!

Hehe kuntrygirl! I won't post too many photos of those "scary" silkies! LOL

 

[catdaddyfro]

Next thing we know, you'll have them under the dogs, goats and sheep! It'll be like an Easter egg hunt to find your eggs. LOL

We are doing some construction and facelifting around the home place here and had some boards delivered from the local sawmill(shop local folks it helps YOUR economy) anyway Mark my friend and neighbor that delivered the boards said he was about ready to purchase his first chickens as he had just about finished his coop so I said ok let me know when and we will make it happen. So he told me what he wanted and I said well I have or will have just the thing for you then (some more of my famous Atcahfalaya swampers, LOL would fill his order just good). So I commenced to showing him the ones already setting or the nest where the ones would soon go down on them to set and he was amazed as we strolled the place here, there, and yonder and as I would point off in the general direction of other nesting spots and this was his response "Man its just like you get to go on an Easter egg hunt daily, huh?" I told him yep everday darn near it.

Figured I'd post that as the story seemed fitting

Jeff

 

[grambysfarm]

We are doing some construction and facelifting around the home place here and had some boards delivered from the local sawmill(shop local folks it helps YOUR economy) anyway Mark my friend and neighbor that delivered the boards said he was about ready to purchase his first chickens as he had just about finished his coop so I said ok let me know when and we will make it happen. So he told me what he wanted and I said well I have or will have just the thing for you then (some more of my famous Atcahfalaya swampers, LOL would fill his order just good). So I commenced to showing him the ones already setting or the nest where the ones would soon go down on them to set and he was amazed as we strolled the place here, there, and yonder and as I would point off in the general direction of other nesting spots and this was his response "Man its just like you get to go on an Easter egg hunt daily, huh?" I told him yep everday darn near it.

Figured I'd post that as the story seemed fitting

Jeff

An Easter Egg hunt everyday...., isn't that the best part of having all these birds? I love it!!

 

[cajun backwoods]

i just transfered my black copper marans, white marans and my buff laced brahma eggs to the hatcher

im as happy as a cop at a donut convention lol