NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

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Well if you got a grow out pen I can bring them down.

You mean their just getting around to what we knew already? It's those silkies I tell ya, You should have worn your tin foil hat.

We love ya just the same

rancher

HAHAHAHA.... I know it was the silkies!!!! As you'll soon find out, the tin foil hat doesn't work. Soon you'll be building them their own cute little coop -- just because they want one!

You haven't seen the big crate sitting in my back yard waiting for remodeling. i suspect it's to cold for silkies out there with no heat. Right? Who knows I talk of doing lots of things but in the end it's how much I can get done. Todays snow has got me down.

Let me know if you want these roos. The sooner the better. I'll know when your BBQ is when I hear sirens and see smoke.

You know i think I hear sirens more out here than when we lived in the city.

 

[marquisella]

Have to share my excitement...bc Marans chicks from #7 egg hatched all by itself today! The egg was so dark, I couldn't tell if it was developing or not,so I let it stay in the hatcher anyhow. Here is a pic, sorry the chick wouldn't stop chirping so its blurry....

That maks 3 chicks from eggs that dark so far! I just hope they aren't all boys!

Sue

 

[rancher hicks]

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Now if I crossed a BCM roo that has a dark egg back ground with my CM hens would I get, or could I get hens that lay darker eggs than the mother does? I'm not interested in the breed so much as the egg color for my customers. Also they have egg color competition right? So if i crossed breeds to get a darker egg would they still be able to compete?

I have a CM broody and i'd like to keep her.

Nice egg and cute chick by the way. If it's a roo are you gonna keep him?

 

[chicken stalker]

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I would be happy to take one if it is a roo!!

 

[marquisella]

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Now if I crossed a BCM roo that has a dark egg back ground with my CM hens would I get, or could I get hens that lay darker eggs than the mother does? I'm not interested in the breed so much as the egg color for my customers. Also they have egg color competition right? So if i crossed breeds to get a darker egg would they still be able to compete?

I have a CM broody and i'd like to keep her.

Nice egg and cute chick by the way. If it's a roo are you gonna keep him?

I'm not sure what you mean, is your roo a black copper Marans? What are you meaning by CM hen? If you are talking about crossin varieties, not breeds the you should not have much of a change in the egg color. If you are crossing breeds, then yes, the egg color with lighten.

And if it is a roo? It will depend on what the other 3 are. I will definitely keep a couple of roos from these eggs because the roo also affects the egg color, so he will put darker color on my other hens so the resulting chicks should have darker color as well. It sems I only haev 2 hens that are laying such a dark color, and then only occasionally, so this year, I will probalby keep all that I hatch. Next year though, I should be offering eggs/chicks from these birds. It will be even more exciting to see if they will lay as dark an egg as what they hatched from.

Sue
http://rarechickens.blogspot.com/

 

[tgrlily]

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HAHAHAHA.... I know it was the silkies!!!! As you'll soon find out, the tin foil hat doesn't work. Soon you'll be building them their own cute little coop -- just because they want one!

You haven't seen the big crate sitting in my back yard waiting for remodeling. i suspect it's to cold for silkies out there with no heat. Right? Who knows I talk of doing lots of things but in the end it's how much I can get done. Todays snow has got me down.

Let me know if you want these roos. The sooner the better. I'll know when your BBQ is when I hear sirens and see smoke.

You know i think I hear sirens more out here than when we lived in the city.

Big crate, huh?? See they started on you already! My silkies have heat lamps. Half of one coop has a porch that we enclose in the winter for solar gain & have open screening in the nice weather. I miss the nice weather!

I have to wait a bit for the boys. John - who wasn't going to build me any more pens or coops - is now planning on putting in 3 more modular pens & some bult in brooders in the 20x20 chicken barn. He is sooo funny & wonderful & amazing!

And has apparently been brainwashed by silkies as well!

You'll know when the BBQ is, because you'll be invited! No need to wait for the smoke & sirens..lol. Actually, that amazing man I mentioned above bought me an awesome gas grill. I can rotisserie 3 chickens at a time.... it has 2 infra-reds, 4 traditional burners, a side burner & counter space. We also have 2 huge brick firepit grills! I do all the grilling here.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I would be happy to take one if it is a roo!!

Of course you beat me to saying that CS!!! I'd take one of the boys, Sue.

 

[marquisella]

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I would be happy to take one if it is a roo!!

Of course you beat me to saying that CS!!! I'd take one of the boys, Sue.

This is all assuming I can keep them alive until next fall....Do I want house chickens? Nah..

Sue
http://rarechickens.blogspot.com/

 

[tgrlily]

Rancher,

Noah wants to know what the little Dominique girl's name is. Snowday today, so he was out in the chicken barn playing with his Dorkings. He likes her... of course he likes them all except the big lav orp roo.

 

[rancher hicks]

Sue - I was thinking of crossing one of your dark layer roos with my CM hen that lays a dark egg. I don't care the breed just as long as I can get a dark egg. If it's a cross that lays it I don't care. In either case I'll be hanging on to the hen cuz she goes broody.

tgrlily - Tell Noah she has no name. I don't name many of my birds. Only name the roos mostly, Nick , Uncle george, and Sissy. have a couple of frizzles family named. Frenchy and Buckwheat.

I hurt all over from this snow and to think tomorrow it may all be gone.

As for Silkies I don't know that I want to put together a coop with a heat light. Heck I'm not even sure these eggs will hatch, but with my luck they'll all hatch and be roos.

If I can get the electric fixed in the room off my garage I can put them back there in the winter. We shall see.