Howdy
I just left an ice-breaker introduction on the new members page.
Hope you go see it.
In the meantime, I was thinking of starting a new flock. I have a goal of making my own super blue-egg layers. I have been through all 77 pages of the blue egg Univ of Arkansas thread.
I think what I want to do will work. I haven't seen any of them on the McMurray site, yet. I don't want to drive to Colorado. And, really, I want to have the fun of doing this sort of thing myself from scratch.
The feathering won't matter much to me. EE's -- so be it. I don't care. But, blue eggs the size the regularity of a leghorn -- my kind of chicken!
See what you think ....
I also chose leghorns for another reason beside the egg-laying -- won't they dilute the brown egg to something quite pale? If I remember correctly, and I can't remember the name, but it was a Leghorn, Australorp cross that layed well, and have an off-white egg? I would suppose that this would dilute my green eggers to blue green, and eventually blue -- right?
How am I going to get there?
I plan on a flock of EE's. I would select for pea-comb within the first 6 weeks, and grow them out. Craigslist, etc., the rest. Then I would raise new chicks from these I chose. If I get a true peacomb roo, over the hens, then I would suppose I would be getting either heterozygous, and even homozygous for pea-comb (hence blue egg gene). When I feel I have enough homozygous hens and roos, select out again and enlarge my flock, always selecting for pea-comb.
I just left an ice-breaker introduction on the new members page.
Hope you go see it.
In the meantime, I was thinking of starting a new flock. I have a goal of making my own super blue-egg layers. I have been through all 77 pages of the blue egg Univ of Arkansas thread.
I think what I want to do will work. I haven't seen any of them on the McMurray site, yet. I don't want to drive to Colorado. And, really, I want to have the fun of doing this sort of thing myself from scratch.
The feathering won't matter much to me. EE's -- so be it. I don't care. But, blue eggs the size the regularity of a leghorn -- my kind of chicken!
See what you think ....
I also chose leghorns for another reason beside the egg-laying -- won't they dilute the brown egg to something quite pale? If I remember correctly, and I can't remember the name, but it was a Leghorn, Australorp cross that layed well, and have an off-white egg? I would suppose that this would dilute my green eggers to blue green, and eventually blue -- right?
How am I going to get there?
I plan on a flock of EE's. I would select for pea-comb within the first 6 weeks, and grow them out. Craigslist, etc., the rest. Then I would raise new chicks from these I chose. If I get a true peacomb roo, over the hens, then I would suppose I would be getting either heterozygous, and even homozygous for pea-comb (hence blue egg gene). When I feel I have enough homozygous hens and roos, select out again and enlarge my flock, always selecting for pea-comb.