Okies in the BYC The Original

[Greybear23]

Al, I was reading in the book I picked up at Tractor Supply called Story's Illastrated guide to Poultry that you can cross the iowa Blu with the New Hampshire Red and it will give you the sexlinked chicks. Lynn

 

[al6517]

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It should already be part of your operating system, you just have to find it and apply your settings.

I like the coloring and the lacing on mine, but I am not really breeding or jacking with him at all. he is just my egg flock head Honcho.

AL

 

[al6517]

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If that is true I have 10 NHR's I could try it with, are you sure??. what is the lineage of the Iowa Blue, tell me more.

AL

 

[Greybear23]

Developed around Decorah, Iowa, around the first half of the twentieth century, the story is that a white leghorn went broody under a building and when she came out she had a clutch of chicks that looked like no others anyone had seen before, the old timers say the sir was a pheasant,the breed almost died out, a man named Ken Whealy of the Decorah-based non profit Seed Savers Exchange found a few straggleing flocks and preserving the breed and started seeding out some in the late 1980s, says they are good foragers, good layer of brown eggs, and good mothers when crossed with a White rock hen you will get sexlinked greyish cockrels and black pullets, when crossed with a NHR hen you get reddish gray cockrels and blackish grey pullets, they are listed as a rare breed but not recognised by the APA, well thats the sum of it, Lynn

 

[poultryand bees]

Good morning, Okies
Does anyone know what happened to our lovely Springlike weather? I had hoped we were done with breaking ice for the critters, but it looks like that is what I will be doing this morning. I love Oklahoma, but am not always fond of its weather fluctuations.

 

[chickensandmore]

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I have some runner ducks, They are running

with my Pekins right now but tomorrow they will their own pen..

Don

 

[chickensandmore]

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Yes they are all the same I have a Trio, and I am getting 2 eggs aday..If we work a deal on the freezers I will get you some eggs to hatch in your new bator..

Don

 

[GracefulBantams]

Good Morning, Sherri

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Yeah, I tried that last year

Greybear23, hurray for the 25 new babies

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It's okay if you don't have any extras... I might get some at the Idabel show on the 28th.... but I would like some more from you.... so, yeah let me know

momofanskh,

Sherri, I am going to Orscheln's this morning, and will let you know what chcks they have left

 

[Dandelion007]

There were several breeds out last night. I was kind of interested in their Banties but they are assorted breeds. After I started thinking about it, if you get one certain color then you should have all the same breed. The large fowl are all the very common breeds. I went ahead and got Black Australorp Pullets. I'm hoping for one misguided roo. I have been doing some bartering for farm things with eggs so they will be quite useful especially if I get a roo.

Do you know how often they get more chicks?

 

[luvs2garden2000]

I asked mom about them and right now she wants to sell them 2 fridg, but I said I needed them. Then she rolled her eyes and said we will talk about it later. Was getting ready for a baby shower today. I am going to have to work hard in her garden this next week to get them i think. I gave her about 30 or so bulbs last fall and I guess i can go help her plant them. I will butter her up real good.