NY chicken lover!!!!

[County Boy]

I still wish I started with bantams. I love them! Not sure why I didn't...Oh wait....it was that impatient personality of mine to hurry up and have chickens! THATS why! LOL

It's never to late to get them!

 

[Lynzi777]

It's never to late to get them!

I'm sorta heading in that direction. LOL I have a frizzle from ke5, and I'm getting one his white ones tomorrow. The plan is to only keep 2-3 silkies so I can still work with that lavender color along with blue and breed the frizzle hens to the silkie roo to get sizzles.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Rancher--so sorry to hear about your barred rocks. I hope its nothing serious.

Breella--good luck with your challenge. Its disgusting that nobody minds their own business any more. Live and let live is my motto.I hope you win.

Hey Hen...hows the pharm biz? Happy Flu Season!

 

[County Boy]

I'm sorta heading in that direction. LOL I have a frizzle from ke5, and I'm getting one his white ones tomorrow. The plan is to only keep 2-3 silkies so I can still work with that lavender color along with blue and breed the frizzle hens to the silkie roo to get sizzles. 

Sounds like you got a plan. Are you shooting for a specific color or just going for "designer" colors? If you are doing designer colors you should check out this sight. It's really cool and where I got my favorite frizzle and the mottled boy I recently lost.
http://www.westknollfarm.com/

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

Brella, I'm sorry you're dealing with that. My town has been giving one family a hard time. Just saw the article today. I hope they leaveme alone. I love my rooster crowing.

http://www.waynepost.com/article/20130907/NEWS/130909909

 

[Lynzi777]

Sounds like you got a plan. Are you shooting for a specific color or just going for "designer" colors? If you are doing designer colors you should check out this sight. It's really cool and where I got my favorite frizzle and the mottled boy I recently lost.
http://www.westknollfarm.com/

No, not yet. Just going to work with what I have. If I had te space to keep 10+ bantams on top of what I have now, then I would definitely look to get certain colors. But this is all new to me (breeding frizzles to silkies) so I'm just doing it for fun for now to see what I end up with.

 

[County Boy]

No, not yet. Just going to work with what I have. If I had te space to keep 10+ bantams on top of what I have now, then I would definitely look to get certain colors. But this is all new to me (breeding frizzles to silkies) so I'm just doing it for fun for now to see what I end up with.

Well, still check the sight out though. Some of the birds there are really nice. But, if you are breeding sizzle or really anything if you aren't, you should breed to please yourself and not go exactly by the book and standards of colors.

 

[Lynzi777]

Well, still check the sight out though. Some of the birds there are really nice. But, if you are breeding sizzle or really anything if you aren't, you should breed to please yourself and not go exactly by the book and standards of colors.

Right and that's why I'm just gonna see what happens first. If I like the outcome, THEN I'll get into certain colors and what not. I have no idea what I would get from breeding a lavender roo to a black hen and a white hen that are both frizzles, I'm sure some kind of funky color. But again if I like the quality of the bird, I'll get on track with breeding the right colors together. I also need to get my hatching down to a science! Just threw out my last three eggs. Done hatching for the year. No movement just blobs in there. So upset. Not sure what could have gone wrong so early on. I've never seen eggs like this. They always form good veins, show movement, and if anything something went wrong later on in the hatch. But not this early.

 

[County Boy]

Right and that's why I'm just gonna see what happens first. If I like the outcome, THEN I'll get into certain colors and what not. I have no idea what I would get from breeding a lavender roo to a black hen and a white hen that are both frizzles, I'm sure some kind of funky color. But again if I like the quality of the bird, I'll get on track with breeding the right colors together. I also need to get my hatching down to a science! Just threw out my last three eggs. Done hatching for the year. No movement just blobs in there. So upset. Not sure what could have gone wrong so early on. I've never seen eggs like this. They always form good veins, show movement, and if anything something went wrong later on in the hatch. But not this early.

Breeding a lavender to a white should give you lavender since white is recessive and when you use the black you would get black and possibly lavender. I don't really know the genetics behind lavender.

 

[Lynzi777]

Breeding a lavender to a white should give you lavender since white is recessive and when you use the black you would get black and possibly lavender. I don't really know the genetics behind lavender.

Well that would be a nice outcome! I love the coloring of my lavenders.