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Thanks! I have a baby now, I think it was one of Bill's girls' eggs. Not sure can't see it clearly. Later when I'm not suppose to I will reach in and grab it and the shell to clarify for recording.
I hear ya about the Barnies.....but I'm going to mess around with Blue with them.
Should have some BLRW eggs coming from some VERY BEAUTIFUL stock from cpartist, her stock came from Marquisella's BLRW I believe.......
stunning I tell ya!!!!! Really hoping for a splash from them, going to go hog wild with blue and Barnies!
cpartist (
to her) is also sending some eggs from her most BEAUTIFUL Blue Copper hen that lays the superest ooberest darkest prettiest eggs I think I've ever seen from a Blue, aside from Marquisella's blue girls eggs and flgardens. WOW!!!! Talk about DROOLING!!!!!! If I get any girls from those eggs they are going to be crossed with Gnarles. I bet we get something very GNARLY COOL from that cross. I can hardly wait.
Sounds like you have a fun project you are getting started on!
On the double lacing with the blue, what color would be with the blue for the lacing part? Sounds like they will be truly gorgeous!! And I think I might be in trouble....I must not look at any pics of them or I'll have yet another breed and color variety I just 'caaan't' live with out. Hahaha
That pic cpartist posted of her girls, especially the blues were really striking indeed. And I bet the cross of some of her girls onto Gnarles will be very beautiful!!
Do you ever have a hard time waiting for the next generation of chicks to mature so you can set up your next crosses and breeding pens? I know I do.... maybe its because I feel like I have a very long way to go...who knows.
YES!!!!!! I go to bed at night thinking about which bird I can cross here, or which bird I can cross there.
I pick them pretty easily at an early age just by the body, comb, eye color, disposition, etc. of the birds. I usually let color correction guide me to pairing after I have grown out the first offspring of certain crosses and matings and I have seen their egg color. I want to see the foundation first and alot of this we can pick up just watching them mature. I think the only time I would let color be my first priority is if something horrible happened to one of my roosters, then if I had bird that was the very least the color I wanted and had other things not so desirable about them....I would use them just to hopefully get the color back and work my way back from there and build the barn, but this would be a worse case scenario and a very long and hard road that I don't even want to think about.
I think I have the most fun with the breeding and pairings and seeing what can be created in both bird and egg color....even if it is just a smidge of improvement or even if it is a total disaster. If it's a disaster I simply just stop doing that and move on to a new pairing, if it's good I usually stick with it and see what my odds are going to be like.....can I do it again???
As for the Barnie....tls_ranch has been working on her blue laced Barnies for a couple of years and she also started with BLRW...if you pop over to the Barnevelder breeders lets stick together thread....she has some of her birds posted there with in the last 10 or 15 pages. They are yummy! I think she also has some on her page...can't remember.
So many pages, so much BYC and not enough time to look at it all!!!
