MPC Super blue egg layer eggs

[Shezadandy]

Updated photos - now 6 weeks of age.

The 2 white birds are pullets (Lucy and Ethel) and the gray is almost certainly a cockerel (Gustavo). It's interesting that Marigold's feet are pink- Gustavo's are dark slate through the legs but clearly pink down in the toes. The girls have washes of slate but with yellow ... at least so far. Nobody's comb has much color so far.

Marigold, with the pink comb, has pink legs. Clover, with the muffs, has pink feet (I originally thought they were yellow), and slate-ish legs that get more and more slate.
I hatched the eggs myself. I am hoping Marigold is not a cockerel.

 

[Pansy Hollow]

Lucy and Ethel have so many more feathers than my two. My birds are all feathering slower it seems. I don't have them under the heat lamp for more than a couple days and I think I read that may make for slower feathering? My friend and I each got a BCMaran and a SFaverolle at the same time and hers feathered a few days ahead of mine. Can a cockerel SBEL be white? Or is it just your pullets happen to be white, and the cockerel gray? Marigold's comb is so much pinker than Clover's....and I don't need another cockerel!!

 

[dekel18042]

Can a cockerel SBEL be white? Or is it just your pullets happen to be white, and the cockerel gray? Marigold's comb is so much pinker than Clover's....and I don't need another cockerel!!

Just as olive eggers can be made using different breeds, I'm sure the same is true of the SBEL's. So both pullets and cockerels can be many different colors depending on what the parent stock is.

 

[Pansy Hollow]

Just as olive eggers can be made using different breeds, I'm sure the same is true of the SBEL's. So both pullets and cockerels can be many different colors depending on what the parent stock is.

Darn! I am so unlucky with my blue egg layers!

 

[Shezadandy]

Lucy and Ethel have so many more feathers than my two. My birds are all feathering slower it seems. I don't have them under the heat lamp for more than a couple days and I think I read that may make for slower feathering? My friend and I each got a BCMaran and a SFaverolle at the same time and hers feathered a few days ahead of mine. Can a cockerel SBEL be white? Or is it just your pullets happen to be white, and the cockerel gray? Marigold's comb is so much pinker than Clover's....and I don't need another cockerel!!

I will say that I left their heat lamp in (used the Sweeter Heater) for a longer stretch because the SBEL pullets did feather in thinner and slower than their Welsummer and Golden Laced Wyandotte "class-mates." When they started roosting away from the heat at night I took it away, but they are spoiled living for now in 1/2 a bedroom on a stall mat, so it's not like they're outside dealing with big fluctuations.

At this point I think I just happened to get a grey cockerel. Based on the MPC description though, I'd be surprised to see any SBEL outside of the gray or white with black feathers realm, so I guess getting a white cockerel falls into that description. For a little while I did wonder if they might have a sex-link component, but like dekel18042 said above they've probably used a number of breeds. I will be pretty surprised if Marigold turns out to be a she- that's really early to have a comb of that size and color- for any breed.

 

[Shezadandy]

Can't wait to see what your eggs are like and how many they lay. If your cockerel looks like a blue Ameraucana and that is one of the breeds that MPC sells, I'm guessing he could be half Ameraucana and a white egg layer, perhaps leghorn. Your cockerel also has the slate/greenish legs of the Ameraucana. It will be interesting how the comb on all yours develop, but an Ameraucana has a pea comb, and I believe that would be dominant which could obscure what the other comb is or could be.
I'm not sure if they would use an Easter egger for the blue egg layer. They sell them and they could except an EE can lay other colored eggs and they probably wouldn't want to take a chance if they're selling them as Super Blue Egg Layers.

Me too! The bigger question will become what the SBEL cockerel (assuming he's a nice enough bird to keep around and deal with) produces with the SBEL pullets. They definitely sell true Ameraucana as well as Cream Legbar, and of course Easter Eggers. The Easter Eggers I've got from MPC lay green and pink, though, so unless they isolated a few that reliably create blue layers, I'd think they'd stick to known blues. Never know, though! As he gets older those legs are a darker and darker slate with pink toes, and he's getting prettier by the day with those smoky grey feathers. I will continue posting as they change and one day in the next 4 months when that first egg pops out.

 

[Jujubara]

I will say that I left their heat lamp in (used the Sweeter Heater) for a longer stretch because the SBEL pullets did feather in thinner and slower than their Welsummer and Golden Laced Wyandotte "class-mates." When they started roosting away from the heat at night I took it away, but they are spoiled living for now in 1/2 a bedroom on a stall mat, so it's not like they're outside dealing with big fluctuations.

At this point I think I just happened to get a grey cockerel. Based on the MPC description though, I'd be surprised to see any SBEL outside of the gray or white with black feathers realm, so I guess getting a white cockerel falls into that description. For a little while I did wonder if they might have a sex-link component, but like dekel18042 said above they've probably used a number of breeds. I will be pretty surprised if Marigold turns out to be a she- that's really early to have a comb of that size and color- for any breed.

I'd love to see how he turns out as well. Probably going to be a beauty!

 

[Shezadandy]

Can't wait to see what your eggs are like and how many they lay. If your cockerel looks like a blue Ameraucana and that is one of the breeds that MPC sells, I'm guessing he could be half Ameraucana and a white egg layer, perhaps leghorn. Your cockerel also has the slate/greenish legs of the Ameraucana. It will be interesting how the comb on all yours develop, but an Ameraucana has a pea comb, and I believe that would be dominant which could obscure what the other comb is or could be.
I'm not sure if they would use an Easter egger for the blue egg layer. They sell them and they could except an EE can lay other colored eggs and they probably wouldn't want to take a chance if they're selling them as Super Blue Egg Layers.

Here's another possible breed clue- he's got little ear tufts. Not a great shot of them but they're definitely there. Lucy and Ethel do not seem to have them.

 

[Pansy Hollow]

Here's another possible breed clue- he's got little ear tufts. Not a great shot of them but they're definitely there. Lucy and Ethel do not seem to have them.

Nice, I haven't seen ear tufts in person....mine won't have those. I was noticing Marigold is getting red wattles. I am still going to hope she is a she until I hear her crow.

 

[Shezadandy]

Nice, I haven't seen ear tufts in person....mine won't have those. I was noticing Marigold is getting red wattles. I am still going to hope she is a she until I hear her crow.

I will think happy pink-laced sugar and spice pullet thoughts in your direction!!!