here's a few of my girls getting spoiled by Gigantor. I had thrown some prairie grass in the pen and he was frantically running to the pile and bringing back blades of grass for the girls. No wonder they adore him and would follow him to the ends of the earth. Me thinks they might have withdrawls when I separate them for their breeding pens later this year. I just love, love, love that black girl in the front. She is so striking when she is running around on the lawn.
Here's one of the splash girls from Helen's stock...she's a regular butterball with a wee short little tail...I love that!
another splasher...from my stock...she's a bit older than the previous one...her leg feathering is kinda sparse, but I've got the perfect cockerel to put her with for some good feathering!
here's an F1 generation cross between a silver cuckoo and a blue hen. I'm deciding how I'm going to be using her as her silver marking on the neck are gorgeous, but crossing her back to the cuckoo cockerel would also give me some patterned blue cuckoos....suppose I could do both...
This is for you Lynette! Here is one of the only non-blurry shots of my little speed demon oldest blue birchen chick. He's still developing, but I'm liking how he's looking so far. He's got a wee bit of pale goldish tone coming in, but I'm ok with working that out through culling and careful crosses.
ok....last photo of the day I promise...this is one of my favorite colored birds of the year so far. I'm going to be using this Ameraucana to make my F1 generation of olive eggers probably this next spring. I'm curious to see what colors come out of the cross....I haven't decided what color to cross them with yet, but I want to try to maintain some of that lemony sweetness!
Here's one of the splash girls from Helen's stock...she's a regular butterball with a wee short little tail...I love that!
another splasher...from my stock...she's a bit older than the previous one...her leg feathering is kinda sparse, but I've got the perfect cockerel to put her with for some good feathering!
here's an F1 generation cross between a silver cuckoo and a blue hen. I'm deciding how I'm going to be using her as her silver marking on the neck are gorgeous, but crossing her back to the cuckoo cockerel would also give me some patterned blue cuckoos....suppose I could do both...
This is for you Lynette! Here is one of the only non-blurry shots of my little speed demon oldest blue birchen chick. He's still developing, but I'm liking how he's looking so far. He's got a wee bit of pale goldish tone coming in, but I'm ok with working that out through culling and careful crosses.
ok....last photo of the day I promise...this is one of my favorite colored birds of the year so far. I'm going to be using this Ameraucana to make my F1 generation of olive eggers probably this next spring. I'm curious to see what colors come out of the cross....I haven't decided what color to cross them with yet, but I want to try to maintain some of that lemony sweetness!
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