Sachasmom, I meant the FL one. It doesn't matter anyway. I have a parade Saturday morning (SS Homecoming) and if we don't lead them, they will get lost!
Looks like I might be done with auctions for this year.
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Marquisella, that is one super colorful little basket you have there!
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Short answer? They are a Leghorn cross that lay blue eggs. European developed to aid in sexing at birth. There were also developed Cambars, and others but they failed to take off in the commercial world or the show for that matter. You can see Legbars on the Green Fire Farms web site. They aren't the prettiest birds in the world and that may be why they didn't remain popular. They are making a come back now I suppose for the color eggs they lay.
Being a straight combed bird they aren 't something I'd like to deal with. Not if I can get blue eggs from my EE/Amer crosses. My two Del roos got frost bit last winter and I'm not happy about that.
The Doms have rosecombs but they don't lay a very large egg. Now I may be looking to get some RIR's with rosecombs and replacing what I can with birds with rosecombs but I will keep the Dels. I just may have to rehouse the roosters to their own warmer coop. This will mean a partitioned coop for "all" my single combed roos. That would be about 10 partitions or so. I won't give up my orps.
I wonder if the frost bite is why people started to "Dub" their birds. Not something I am interested in doing mind you.
Have a nice day,
Rancher
Short answer? They are a Leghorn cross that lay blue eggs. European developed to aid in sexing at birth. There were also developed Cambars, and others but they failed to take off in the commercial world or the show for that matter. You can see Legbars on the Green Fire Farms web site. They aren't the prettiest birds in the world and that may be why they didn't remain popular. They are making a come back now I suppose for the color eggs they lay.
Being a straight combed bird they aren 't something I'd like to deal with. Not if I can get blue eggs from my EE/Amer crosses. My two Del roos got frost bit last winter and I'm not happy about that.
The Doms have rosecombs but they don't lay a very large egg. Now I may be looking to get some RIR's with rosecombs and replacing what I can with birds with rosecombs but I will keep the Dels. I just may have to rehouse the roosters to their own warmer coop. This will mean a partitioned coop for "all" my single combed roos. That would be about 10 partitions or so. I won't give up my orps.
I wonder if the frost bite is why people started to "Dub" their birds. Not something I am interested in doing mind you.
Have a nice day,
Rancher
Good to know...
That's why I went with EE's. I can't wait to get my first colored egg! (or my first brown one either!)
I don't want to deal with the comb problem either. I hope my others with the regular combs wont have any issues this winter. I am hoping that with plenty of ventilation and a little warmth my girls and boys wont get frostbite.
That's why I went with EE's. I can't wait to get my first colored egg! (or my first brown one either!)
I don't want to deal with the comb problem either. I hope my others with the regular combs wont have any issues this winter. I am hoping that with plenty of ventilation and a little warmth my girls and boys wont get frostbite.
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Here I was hoping that someone from here would be going to Kings on Sunday with some Blue egg layers. My wife is not a big fan of the chickens, but she did enjoy the blue eggs from our 3 EE's. Well one EE up and died on me, and a second stopped laying. I watched the third lay the prettiest light brown egg you ever saw. I was just looking for some pullets (culls or what not) to add some color to the basket.
Well last night 4 weeks ahead of plan or schedule, my wife gave birth to a beautiful 6 lb 4 oz boy.
I'll get her some blue egg layers in the future.
Well last night 4 weeks ahead of plan or schedule, my wife gave birth to a beautiful 6 lb 4 oz boy.
I'll get her some blue egg layers in the future.
Framac - congrats on the baby. You'll get blue egg layers somehow. I could buy some but I don't want to pay for them as I have other fish/ chickens to buy.
Take care, "rock a bye baby on the tree top........................................
Rancher
Take care, "rock a bye baby on the tree top........................................
Rancher
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Congrats on the baby!!!!!
I too want some blue egg layers - I have green olive brown white and speckled. Still no blue. All my newest EE mixes are so far laying brown eggs
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For those with too many eggs, I tried this out last night:
http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-make-powdered-eggs.htm
The 'wet dry' method. The 'cook dry' doesn't really seem like it works all that well. But the 'raw' way made perfect egg powder and a whole dozen eggs takes up a few inches in a Ball jar.
Congrats on the baby!!!!!
I too want some blue egg layers - I have green olive brown white and speckled. Still no blue. All my newest EE mixes are so far laying brown eggs
For those with too many eggs, I tried this out last night:
http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-make-powdered-eggs.htm
The 'wet dry' method. The 'cook dry' doesn't really seem like it works all that well. But the 'raw' way made perfect egg powder and a whole dozen eggs takes up a few inches in a Ball jar.
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Congrats on the baby!!!!!
I too want some blue egg layers - I have green olive brown white and speckled. Still no blue. All my newest EE mixes are so far laying brown eggs
.
For those with too many eggs, I tried this out last night:
http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-make-powdered-eggs.htm
The 'wet dry' method. The 'cook dry' doesn't really seem like it works all that well. But the 'raw' way made perfect egg powder and a whole dozen eggs takes up a few inches in a Ball jar.
Interesting! Maybe next year I will try it!!Maybe I will have so many eggs that I will be forced to try it!!!!
Congrats on the baby!!!!!
I too want some blue egg layers - I have green olive brown white and speckled. Still no blue. All my newest EE mixes are so far laying brown eggs
For those with too many eggs, I tried this out last night:
http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-make-powdered-eggs.htm
The 'wet dry' method. The 'cook dry' doesn't really seem like it works all that well. But the 'raw' way made perfect egg powder and a whole dozen eggs takes up a few inches in a Ball jar.
Interesting! Maybe next year I will try it!!Maybe I will have so many eggs that I will be forced to try it!!!!
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Congrats on the baby!!!!!
I too want some blue egg layers - I have green olive brown white and speckled. Still no blue. All my newest EE mixes are so far laying brown eggs
.
For those with too many eggs, I tried this out last night:
http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-make-powdered-eggs.htm
The 'wet dry' method. The 'cook dry' doesn't really seem like it works all that well. But the 'raw' way made perfect egg powder and a whole dozen eggs takes up a few inches in a Ball jar.
We used to get the powdered eggs with our welfare food. We didn't like it. My mother used to mix the powdered milk 50/50 with the regular milk. But then in those days it had all the cream in it.
Congrats on the baby!!!!!
I too want some blue egg layers - I have green olive brown white and speckled. Still no blue. All my newest EE mixes are so far laying brown eggs
For those with too many eggs, I tried this out last night:
http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-make-powdered-eggs.htm
The 'wet dry' method. The 'cook dry' doesn't really seem like it works all that well. But the 'raw' way made perfect egg powder and a whole dozen eggs takes up a few inches in a Ball jar.
We used to get the powdered eggs with our welfare food. We didn't like it. My mother used to mix the powdered milk 50/50 with the regular milk. But then in those days it had all the cream in it.
Today I finished the run and let everyone out to enjoy some sunshine. I haven't posted much because every free daylight hour was spent working on the coop and run for the last five months or so. The two hens I got from Annie popped out the door like "What took you so long?" I caught the silkies and shoved them out the hole flapping and squawking. Had to put them back in one by one tonight, they are probably exhausted after their exciting day. The big girls and one little roo put temselves to bed on the roost
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The coop is 8 x 12 with an 8 x 8 area for the chickens. The run is 12 x 16 and completely covered with 2" x 4" stock wire. The inside has 1" chicken wire three feet up so they can't get close to the stock wire. Still have to put the apron around the outside, but the clay and rock is so hard and there is a bottom line of landscape timbers buried in it, so I think they will be okay for a few days.
I bought a power saw today before my arm gives out. It's been years since I had such callouses on my hands (not since growing up on a 260 acre hay farm). Still have to build a duck house and dig out 20 feet more of retaining wall on the ugly rocky hillside. It's been one of my life goals to have a nice chicken house and yard and I can see them from the kitchen and dinette about 30 feet away down the slope.
Now I have to get a hatchet and start thinning out the extra roos. Got a good bite again today from one of the little devils. I grabbed one to throw him out the pop door and another one rushed over and got me. I thought silkies were supposed to be sweet little things! They will probably taste sweet with some celery, carrots, and rice in soup.
The coop is 8 x 12 with an 8 x 8 area for the chickens. The run is 12 x 16 and completely covered with 2" x 4" stock wire. The inside has 1" chicken wire three feet up so they can't get close to the stock wire. Still have to put the apron around the outside, but the clay and rock is so hard and there is a bottom line of landscape timbers buried in it, so I think they will be okay for a few days.
I bought a power saw today before my arm gives out. It's been years since I had such callouses on my hands (not since growing up on a 260 acre hay farm). Still have to build a duck house and dig out 20 feet more of retaining wall on the ugly rocky hillside. It's been one of my life goals to have a nice chicken house and yard and I can see them from the kitchen and dinette about 30 feet away down the slope.
Now I have to get a hatchet and start thinning out the extra roos. Got a good bite again today from one of the little devils. I grabbed one to throw him out the pop door and another one rushed over and got me. I thought silkies were supposed to be sweet little things! They will probably taste sweet with some celery, carrots, and rice in soup.
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