Nevadans?

[aubreynoramarie]

I did! Well I watched it on YouTube because I don't have cable. It was kind of sad, lol. There were little Asian men throwing chicks left and right. In the end my verdict is going to be : it's sooooooo gross!

 

[Eglyntine]

Yeah he said they were not careful with the day old chicks at all, he said they were throwing them around like rubber balls. Like I said I have not sat down and watched it yet but I just find it so pathetic that their instructions basically tell you to treat them like blown glass figures yet you see them in the hatchery not being the slightest bit gentle with their birds. Craziness.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Here is the girl that Aubreynoramarie got, she will most likely lay a shade of light brown egg – from her Orp daddy:

Sunny – Blues – do you know who you are getting them from yet? As soon as we have a place to separate Flrpl, I will start collecting eggs from him and the black Orp girls and start on the first generation of those EEs. I also want to cross Flrpl back over the blue EE girls, and probably the rest of the EE girls to see what he “throws” for color. Oh a blue Am roo might be nice, then I could cross him over the blue girls also – to help the blue egg gene strengthen. I need more coops!

The wind is horrible here today. Chickens have stayed in their coops for the last two days due to the wind, cold and snow. Today I raked out the main coop, and added a bale of shaving so they are no longer standing around on the cold ground. Course the young birds from this year act like something horrible has invaded the coop; Took Versace cooing and scratching to get them back into the coop. Windblown is not a good look for chickens (unless your into frizzles).





It amazes me the rough treatment that chicks from hatcheries go thru. I am so very careful with my new peeps, treating them like babies. What do I know

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Pips and Peeps is selling me some this spring. She is just not sure how many she can hatch since her parent stock is way down on the blues.

 

[Eglyntine]

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I am the same way, I am so careful with them and go over the top making sure they want for nothing. But when my DH saw this show he wanted to know why once the chicks get shipped to us they become so fragile? You can literally yell BOO too loudly and it will scare a chick to death yet they can be bounced around during sexing and shipping and it does not phase them.

Btw, You have some gorgeous chickens! My husband really dislikes the "blues", he is a very logical person and he hates that blues are called blue because technically they are gray to him. I wanted the BLRW's but he does not like them. I have GLW and SLW so I am going to try to breed the BLRW myself and see how it turns out. I am also thinking of getting some white Australorps and try my hand at splash and blue Australorps.

 

[SparksNV]

Genny, your blues are amazing! They look just like the ones I got from you! Cabo & Sassy are laying pretty regularly - I get 1-2 eggs a day. Chuck (the other Orp/Del) is getting closer - I'd say 3 weeks away. Verde has been squating for 3 weeks and Flower started about 4 days ago. Meringue looks really close but not squatting. They all look so good and healthy - I am very proud of my little flock. Thank you Genny so much for my gals!

Merigue

Verde

Forgive me if I've posted these before!

My neighbor does not want any more birds. Please don't forget about me when ya'll are getting/buying chicks!!! I want to wait til spring though.

My friend that wants the green egg layers will take chickies anytime. He said 6-10!

Can you predict, with some certainty, the EEs and EE/crosses egg colors? Genny, I know you have explained it before but you know the history of your breeding pairs. I am asking about ones that you don't know the parents.

Thanks!

Stay warm...

 

[daegorn]

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They are beautiful.

Maybe when I come down in spring Genny will have some more babies and I can bring them to you.

I would LOVE it!

Eglyntine: looks great but how are your ribs? I will have to post my pics, no more birds in the house for me

I posted them on face book, dose any one go there?

 

[SunnyDawn]

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They are beautiful.

Maybe when I come down in spring Genny will have some more babies and I can bring them to you.

I would LOVE it!

Eglyntine: looks great but how are your ribs? I will have to post my pics, no more birds in the house for me

I posted them on face book, dose any one go there?

Sure! You can post a link but sometimes when folks post a link it tells us we can't view it without sending a friend request.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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They are beautiful.

Maybe when I come down in spring Genny will have some more babies and I can bring them to you.

I would LOVE it!

That would be great and I sure hope I have some. Are you picking up down there also Sunny? I do not have a FB account, someday maybe

Carol – the girls look so good, just love Miss. M – As for egg color and EE – I ran across this post today :

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So now I am on a quest to molest my girls to see their ear color. Some are a light pale pink – but not laying yet. I have not been able to see my “blue/green” layers ears yet, of who I have 4 – they have such thick muffs I have to “dig around” to see them.

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I am the same way, I am so careful with them and go over the top making sure they want for nothing. But when my DH saw this show he wanted to know why once the chicks get shipped to us they become so fragile? You can literally yell BOO too loudly and it will scare a chick to death yet they can be bounced around during sexing and shipping and it does not phase them.

Btw, You have some gorgeous chickens! My husband really dislikes the "blues", he is a very logical person and he hates that blues are called blue because technically they are gray to him. I wanted the BLRW's but he does not like them. I have GLW and SLW so I am going to try to breed the BLRW myself and see how it turns out. I am also thinking of getting some white Australorps and try my hand at splash and blue Australorps.

I think shipping and being without food/water for a couple days is really hard and taxing on the poor peeps. Only the strong survive. I have seen hens be really hard on chicks - pecking them, stepping on them, flinging them by scratching away at the ground, roll and mush them when sunbathing - but it does not go on for 3 days without food and water.

You tell your DH that he can always call them Gray

I believe they are actually a black but missing all the pigmentation that a glossy "true" black has. They are part of the Andalusian blue (blue/black/splash color) - or at least their father is. Mother is hatchery EE - so that is a real color palate. I am no expert on chicken genetics - but I am trying to learn.

Are you going to try and breed BLRW from the GLW and the SLW?

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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Egg shells are two colors - white or blue - this color is the color you see inside the shell after you have cracked it and removed the film. Brown eggs are white based shells with the brown color "sprayed" on as it is passing along in the chicken. Breed tends to determine how much brown is sprayed on - Orps, very light - Marans, very dark.

Some more on egg color - got this from a thread on here when I was first looking into what the "blue" egg gene was.

Actually, because the blue egg gene is dominant only one of the parents need to carry the gene for some off springs eggs to be blue. Each parent can have zero, one, or two blue eggs genes.

A chick gets one copy of the gene from each parent. If the chick has 1 or 2 blue egg genes, their eggs will be blue. If the chick receives a non blue egg gene from both parents the eggs will not be blue.

Green eggs are blue eggs that are covered with brown. The blue is underneath. So if a brown egg layer also has the gene for blue eggs the eggs will look green or khaki.

O - blue egg o-non blue egg
one parent other parent
OO oo = all blue egg layers
Oo oo = 50 percent blue egg layers
oo oo = no blue egg layers
OO OO = all blue egg layers

Now you can also cross an EE who lays a greenish egg with a white egg layer - this will help clear-up the brown on the egg for a bit better blue.


My Orps are not a dark brown egg layer, so the EEs from this cross lay a light green/blue to light brown egg.

I want to cross my Ameraucana who carries OO with my EEs to strengthen the blue laying percentage of the chicks. Course I am going to cross him with my big fatty-fluff orps also for big fatty fluffy faced EE too (hopefully).