OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

[cluckitall]

Two were green. I know which chicks came from those eggs. the guys two roosters that uses for bringing are not throwing green egg genes he says he's only got a couple hens that are doing that

Yeah, eventually that's something you'd want to breed out of the line, ideally, but I'd work on the autosexing first -- that's definitely the more important characteristic!

 

[minihorse927]

My intentions Were the two that hatched from green eggs are boys. Figured I'll sell then cheap or give them away to someone that wants them. I was going to keep the definite 4 girls, maybe the two lighter colored ones that still have stripes and the boy with the dot. The other I'm not quite sure yet. I was researching the green eggs in them and that's the conclusion I came to also that a cream Legbar got in the mix somewhere. I've got an older pair already plus now 11 babies. I've got to take a pair to someone today down in Kentucky and then I'm going to have to decide what to do with the rest of the

 

[cluckitall]

Well, make sure to keep some! Okay, I'm biased -- I absolutely love my rhodes

And the egg coloring should be easy to correct.

 

[blessedchick]

Also, minihorse and blessedchick, in the interests of furthering my education, if I have room and can bring a couple of my silkies to Delaware, would you be willing to go over them with me and point out flaws? (They have them!) I love silkies, but I'm really, really inexperienced with them -- heck, I can't even reliably tell hens from roos until one's laying and the other's crowing, lol! I'd love to learn more about what to look for and what makes a truly outstanding silkie

Absolutely! Any excuse to see another chicken! (and they ALL have faults!)

 

[minihorse927]

These two both hatched from brown. Would the roo be worth keeping?

 

[minihorse927]

Absolutely! Any excuse to see another chicken! (and they ALL have faults!)
:yiipchick

yep no animals perfect.

 

[minihorse927]

my new boy.

 

[mlaff]

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my new boy.

Pretty

 

[minihorse927]

you said you wanted silky blue egg layers right? the first generations will all be splits but I can set you up with them splits or I can set ypu up with silkied in a couple generations

 

[cluckitall]

These two both hatched from brown. Would the roo be worth keeping?

The white patch looks pretty pronounced in this pic, and he looks to be a sturdy little fellow. I'd say yep

I've hatched roos out ranging from almost yellow, like this little fellow, all the way up to dark russet -- but they always have the distinctive white dot. I'm still trying to see if there's a correlation between male hatch color and adult coloring or not -- so far I haven't seen one, but I haven't ruled out the possibility yet, either.