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Great to have you here. It is a little quiet right now but believe me it will pick up later.
Lots of great Oklahoma folks here.
Glad you are one us us!
Monty
 
I came across an old email from a very smart chicken man that I talk to once and a while.
Just thought I'd share it. Maybe someone will like it.

BLUE EGG INFO:
The blue pigment added to the shell is actually a waste product that
is produced by the bird's liver. The blue pigment is produce from a
substance called biliverdin. Biliverdin is a byproduct that comes from
breaking down old red blood cells. Sometmes a bird does not produce a
large amount of biliverdin and therefore they do not make much pigment.

The more eggs a bird lays also can affect the color. Birds that lays
twice a week will have a darker egg than one that lays 5 times a week.

Anything that would effect the production of biliverdin will effect
the egg color (lack of nutrition and disease).

One of my projects I am working on is a bluegger. As my blueggers get
older they stop adding as much pigment to the shell.
The eggs from my blueggers are not very dark and I am currently working on my hens
producing a darker blue egg and refining some of the characteristics.
 
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I had an interesting thing happen regarding egg color. I had only one serama in a cage. I was feeding re-cycled egg shells as a calcium source and her eggs were white. When I gave her oyster shell, her eggs changed to tan the very next egg...so a hen does not always lay the same color egg. It can depend on her calcium source.
 
Some pictures I took today...I do have chickens that aren't black!

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She's filling his ear full...and if he's smart, he WILL listen!

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Nice seramas Junebug! Glad to see you have colors other than black!lolTheir size looks really small. I think the silkie feathers makes them look stockier.How many do yo have in all?

Turned into a cold drizzly day here! Still in the fortys!Must be redbud winter!lol.next week will proably be dogwood winter!We do need a little rain,it will really make things green up when it does warm back up.

Joe I think Donnie meant "train" although I wouldn't mind seeing a chicken raine,that is if it wasn't all roosters!
 
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Hi Doodle-doo,

I have WAY to many birds. I think I had 56 over 4 months at my last NPIP testing....course I have hum-teen chicks and juveniles...sitting around like tribbles....
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I like other colors, but I'm working really hard on the blacks, because when we apply for ABA recognition, I want to be one of the 5 breeders. This is "Tatertot", sucking it up!

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Will definitely be at the Guy Rose Auction tomorrow--rain or shine! Hope to see some of you there.
 
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