Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[Blarneyeggs]

9 weeks this wed,,,according to TSC,,,they are ready for sure,,,I did 1 last week that had a bad leg, it was 6 pounds, so i am so glad this plucker came, we were going to do them this coming weekend with or without it.

great timing! We ate some Silkies last year, the skin was black and the meat?..I forget, but think I would have remembered if it was blue.

woot! just got a raise at work

AWESOME!!!

I need an education on Cream Legbars.....here's the wiki definition: The Cream Legbar is an autosexing type of chicken. This means that you can tell the sex of the chick at hatch, and they breed true. The Cream Legbar originated as a cross between Brown Leghorns and Barred Rock with some Araucana blood in them. This is reflected in the crest and the blue eggs that they lay. The egg colour is usually blue, though some will give olive eggs so, 1 why are they soooooo expensive...? none of the breeds that they are made up of are that rare..... 2. since this 'breed' is a hybrid of other breeds...does it really breed true ? and I remember somebody mentioning purple eggs....anybody know anything about them? Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure, but here is my guess.. 1). The cream leg bars are expensive because they are newly imported to the US (2 years now?) and it it extremely expensive for the importer (Green Fire Farms) to get them here, so they, in turn, pass the cost on to the consumer. 2). Yes, it breeds true. 3) the question that you didn't ask, why don't we just make our own, if we know what breeds make up the Legbars? A: many years of crossing and record keeping went into the development of this breed, it would be tedious and time consuming to replicate.. this is my best guess.

 

[PAchickenlover]

Welcome newbies

 

[stake]

well, a new thing for my young girls....they don't like getting their feet wet...of course the prefered hang out is the patio/deck......

 

[cskotek]

Goosey is getting big!

 

[PAchickenlover]

Storms coming, mobile home, no basement = possible trouble

 

[sgtmom52]

Storms coming, mobile home, no basement = possible trouble

Not Good ~ stay safe!!

 

[PAchickenlover]

Goosey is getting big!

<3 so adorable!!!

 

[PAchickenlover]

We will try to stay safe. We do have our well pit if we have to.. :/

 

[sgtmom52]

We will try to stay safe. We do have our well pit if we have to..

I'm in Dover and am heading out to the coop now (early) to lock up before the storms hit.

 

[PAchickenlover]

My coops are as locked up as they can be. I just hope the trees that surround us and the coops stay up.. they make me more nervous than the storm.