I did breed some blues, but most of those are in the second hatch and are not showing any color as they are still really young. I'll have a better idea of what I have in a couple more weeks as I have two separate breeding pens I hatched from. I also will hopefully be setting the next hatch after these storms are over for the week. At least that's the plan.I miss those last Black Birchens I had. I miss looking at them and seeing that silver on black. Wish they had had better egg color.
I would love to see your Birchens.....did you breed any blues?
We don't even talk about the weather over here right now......get this.....the 1st 2 weeks of May was beautiful and no rain. The last 2 weeks of May has been down right......wet. Over 4 inches of rain so far in May and still 2 days left, currently it is not raining, but is forecasted. Last night and the night before sounded like we were living in a dishwasher that never turns off.
Reading the rain totals this morning......they say we got more rain in May in 2 weeks, then we did in February and March combined. SOGGY!
Back to Marans and talking of setting eggs again......I am really hoping that Roberta, the Splash Cpr hen that took over a year to ever lay an egg, will resume laying before then so I can a few of her eggs to test.
To date she has only laid 3 eggs. Her first one was what....2 months ago or something like that, I haven't seen one from her in a month.
It's dumb.
Its been exceptionally wet here too, we got an inch last night, and about 45 west and a bit south of us they got dumped on and got about 3 inches in a couple hours. I don't know what the totals are for rain so far, but know that April we were at almost 4 inches by the third week. After that I've lost track with all the rain. The garden loves it for sure, except the warm weather stuff, they are just sitting there waiting
I have a hen here that lays very infrequently, but has a great type and size and lovely egg color when she does lay. I'd guess I'm lucky if I get 12 eggs a year from her, but set all I do get because she creates gorgeous babies that are much better layers than she is.
