"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[ederob]

Alright guys, my eggs arrived. Only one had serious air cell damage, and the seller included 3 extra legbar eggs!!!! So tomorrow I will be putting the 6 blue isbar and 9 crested cream legbar eggs in the bator tomorrow!!!

Good luck!

 

[CackedNut]

Can I join? I live in Louisiana!

Welcome!! A cutting horse...hmmmm...do you cut? I'm curious too about where you are. In the St. Tammany/Tangipahoa area?

 

[CackedNut]

Alright guys, my eggs arrived. Only one had serious air cell damage, and the seller included 3 extra legbar eggs!!!! So tomorrow I will be putting the 6 blue isbar and 9 crested cream legbar eggs in the bator!!!

I'm so excited for you!!! You've got to get the legbars started!! I really, really want some in the spring!!! (My poor husband has NO IDEA ABOUT CHICKEN MATH!!!) Also, you are a trouble maker!!! I don't know what a blue isbar is, and now I have to go look them up...I really don't need to find another chicken I want!! Good luck with all your eggs...so exciting!

 

[kuntrygirl]

 
Can I  join?  I live in Louisiana!

Welcome!!  A cutting horse...hmmmm...do you cut?  I'm curious too about where you are.  In the St. Tammany/Tangipahoa area?

He/she said that they would rather not tell where they are from. Perhaps they heard about my love for matches and they thiink that I will huff and puff and burn their house down?

 

[kuntrygirl]

 
Where about in La are you?

I will pm you it.  I would rather not tell everyone.

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[bugglesmommy]

He/she said that they would rather not tell where they are from. Perhaps they heard about my love for matches and they thiink that I will huff and puff and burn their house down?

Sounds reasonable to me.

 

[kuntrygirl]

He/she said that they would rather not tell where they are from. Perhaps they heard about my love for matches and they thiink that I will huff and puff and burn their house down?

Sounds reasonable to me. 

 

[CackedNut]

He/she said that they would rather not tell where they are from. Perhaps they heard about my love for matches and they thiink that I will huff and puff and burn their house down?

Good news travels fast...or at least our reputation?

 

[CackedNut]

Open season.....

 

[bugglesmommy]

I'm so excited for you!!! You've got to get the legbars started!! I really, really want some in the spring!!! (My poor husband has NO IDEA ABOUT CHICKEN MATH!!!) Also, you are a trouble maker!!! I don't know what a blue isbar is, and now I have to go look them up...I really don't need to find another chicken I want!! Good luck with all your eggs...so exciting!

I copied this from Greenfires website. I didn't know anything about them, but the auction was for both breeds and now I really look forward to having these guys to!

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Every nation seems to harbor its share of backyard biologists and mad monks who are irresistibly drawn to tinker with the chicken genome in the quest for a more perfect bird. Sweden is no exception, and its monk –literally in this case—was Martin Silverudd, a Catholic monk who in the tradition of Gregor Mendel before him plumbed the depths of genetics and created a number of chicken breeds in the 1950s and 1960s. Silverudd had in mind the goal of creating auto-sexing breeds that laid a high volume of unusually colored eggs. (For a more detailed description of the auto-sexing function, please read the description of the cream legbar.)
To a remarkable degree Silverudd was successful in his quest and along the way created breeding protocols that would later be studied and adopted by sophisticated university geneticists and animal scientists. But, perhaps his greatest achievement was the creation of the isbar (pronounced ‘ice bar’), a breed as practical as it is beautiful and the only green-egg-laying single combed chicken breed in the world.

Father Silverudd created a number of fancifully named breeds including the fifty-five flowery hen, the Queen Silvia, the molilja, and, of course, the isbar. There are a few varieties of isbar, and Greenfire Farms was lucky enough to locate one of the last remaining flocks of blue isbars, the most spectacular variety of the breed. Probably fewer than a hundred blue isbars exist in the world; a tragedy given the beauty and usefulness of this variety. Roosters have shimmering metallic hackles that overlay deep blue body feathers. The hens are also striking with their blue feathers, and splash color patterns are common within the variety. Because of the genetics of the blue coloring, the auto-sexing feather patterns in chicks are not as pronounced (and may be altogether absent) when compared to other auto-sexing breeds like the cream legbar. These cold-hardy birds are thrifty foragers that will produce 150-200 moss green eggs a year. Whether speckled or pure green, the isbar eggs are as fantastic and exotic as the birds themselves.