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[Buckguy20]

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I have decided to garden a lot more this year and concentrate on what I grow best. So you can count on me if you need sandburrs and ragweed!
Also I have several special plots set aside for Bermuda grass. My wife calls them flower beds but since bermuda grows so well in them I am going to forgo trying to plant flowers and just let the Bermuda go nuts.

 

[Buckguy20]

Maribeth, I think you should plant buckwheat and make buckwheat honey!

 

[poultryand bees]

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Newcastle is the 1st and 3rd Saturday and Blanchard is the 2nd and 4th Saturday. With January starting on a Sunday, the Newcastle auction will be Jan 7 and 21. Blanchard will be the 14th and 28th.

 

[upcdayz]

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That is weird and cool.

 

[muesky]

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Newcastle is the 1st and 3rd Saturday and Blanchard is the 2nd and 4th Saturday. With January starting on a Sunday, the Newcastle auction will be Jan 7 and 21. Blanchard will be the 14th and 28th.

So who is planning on going to the Newcastle auction this Saturday? It seems like it has been a long time since I have been to an auction, even though Maryjo and I went to Maud just a couple of weeks ago. Maud just does not have as good of nachos as Blanchard auction.

 

[upcdayz]

Can someone tell me what the difference is between lavender and blue colored chickens, and how each comes about when you're breeding?

 

[sjarvis00]

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Lavendar is based on the lav gene. It is a true breeding form of Blue called Self Blue, and is absent of lacing. When breeding lavendar you breed Lavendar to Lavendar you get 100% lavendar chicks. Many breeders cross Lavendar with Black, all resulting offspring are black, then breed those offspring back to each other to get back to lavendar. lavendar is often associated with poor feather width, and poor feather quality thus the occasional cross to balck to improve those traits.

Blue is whole different story.
Blue is a incomplete dominant mutation of Black. It takes two copies of genes to create most colors along with other determing factors but with blue for instance the natural form in a recessive state bl results in black when two copies are present, the mutation incompletly dominant Bl results in a splash when two copies are present and when the two are combined as Bl / bl you get Blue.
So to think of it this way when breeding Blue
bl/bl = Black
Bl/bl = Blue
Bl / Bl = Splash

This form of blue is laced with a darker shade of blue. One should breed for an even shade of blue. You will get your best color by breeding Blue to Blue and be able to maintain proper lacing and a more uniform color through out the birds body in this manner.
when Breeding Black x Splash all teh resulting offspring will be blue in color however will vary widely in color quality and are often un-even in color and begin to loose lacing as this created by the presence of other genes you cannot see when using Black and Splash.

Did that answer it for you or do I need to dig deeper or make it more simple?

 

[Ksane]

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Newcastle is the 1st and 3rd Saturday and Blanchard is the 2nd and 4th Saturday. With January starting on a Sunday, the Newcastle auction will be Jan 7 and 21. Blanchard will be the 14th and 28th.

Oh good! I hope to make it. What I've been planning is a 10x10 pen with about a dozen OEGB and Modern Bantam girls in it. I'm going to get them all wormed and quarantined and settled in for a few months and when it gets warm I'm going to rotate my little Serama & the OEGB cockerel between inside & out there with the girls. Channing (the Serama) will get to be with the pen full of girls during warm weather and Dewey Crow (the OEGB) will get them when it falls below 60 degrees. That's what I'm shooting for.
I got a good picture of me and Channing, too. He thinks he deserves girls although he doesn't think 12 is enough lol

 

[poultryand bees]

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I will need to do some research on the difference, if any, between buckwheat and the kind of wheat in the straw bales we have. We may have some volunteer wheat from the straw bales.

 

[sjarvis00]

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I will need to do some research on the difference, if any, between buckwheat and the kind of wheat in the straw bales we have. We may have some volunteer wheat from the straw bales.

What is baled into straw is often Red wheat, used in feed and bread for flour etc, buckwheat is a very close relative that was likely one of teh original forms of wheat it has much longer stems and is not quite as productive as the commercially developed red wheat.