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Auroradream26 said:
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It's trick or treat night here. Happy Halloween!
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Great pic! Your eyes look pretty scary!
 
Blarneyeggs said:
I joined SallySunshine's Halloween HAL, I put eggs under my broody and was feeling pretty confident. Well, we are on day 23.

Does anyone have a day old chick or 2?
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Looks like our hatch isn't going too well. Most of Frannie's eggs never developed (maybe got too cold before collecting) and she will be lucky to end up with 2... I know Sally just hatched some, you may be able to work out a meet with her.
Pidgy had 5, but they are too old now at 6 days.
 
dheltzel said:
Pretty far, Pottstown is close to Philly. I've never driven it, but probably at least 5 hours.
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enola said:
How far is Pottstown from Pittsburg?
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BUT, the chicken train (aka me) is making a stop in Pottstown this weekend and heading back to the Pittsburgh area (Beaver County) on Monday, so if you want anything speak up quickly since I'm not sure when I'll be making another trip that can accommodate poultry!
 
dheltzel said:
I suppose you could accuse me of being pendantic, but really we are both right, we just had a different interpretation of your original statement. The question I was responding to was about whether CCL's had 1 or 2 blue alleles, and genetically, they are homozygous blue. For the genetic related question about whether a CCL is as good as an Ameraucana for making a green or olive egger, I think we can agree that they are. A green egg layer is the same (or maybe even better) for making olive eggers than a blue egg layer - subject to the same caveat about them being homozygous for blue if you want to be certain all the offspring will lay green eggs.

Personally, I'm with you that blue is better looking than green, but @Chaos18 's son wants green eggs (to go with the green ham, I presume). I don't personally care for the color of olive eggs either, but I don't object to a few in the flock "for variety". That has been a theme with my customers this year. Almost everyone wanted multiple breeds where the hens will look different and the will lay different colored eggs. The Olive Eggers were a big hit for that reason. I think having some that are "mint green" will be a big selling point too. I have had customers that want 1 or 2 of each color egg, so why not produce every shade possible? I aim to please my customers, and variety is a crowd pleaser.

Of course there are the "purists", like you and I, who want a consistent bright blue egg. I really like Ams for that, but then I really like Ams in general, good disposition for a penned up layer, cute facial adornments, pea comb that is impervious to frostbite, and reliable layers of bright blue eggs if you have a good strain. I have gotten a lot more excited about CCL's and the Reese line looks really neat, I hope they lay blue eggs really well, if so they will become one of my favorites.

It may not be obvious in this discussion, but it is easy to make a green egg layer from a blue one, but very hard to get the blue separated back out from a green egg layer, making the strains that produce really blue eggs extra desirable for their genetics, and the occurrence of a green egg in a strain that is supposed to lay blue eggs is disappointing indeed. I am getting 1 green egg from my flock of young CCL's. I will not be hatching those to sell as CCL's, but if I could ID which pullet it is, she would be ideal for making sex-linked olive eggers, I could just move her to my Welsummer or BCM flock and any green eggs will hatch into OE's.
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No green eggs and ham here. He wants green eggs because green is his favorite color and if getting green eggs keeps him busy outside of the house and away from electronics than green eggs we shall have.
 
I love colored eggs period. Right now I have Araucanas for blue eggs, one EE that lays an egg that is a shade of gray, leghorns for white eggs, Araucana crosses that lay all shades of green, and a hen that lays a brown egg. I have really trimmed my flock down. I love a variety of eggs in my cartons.

I used to have Silver Laced wyandottes that laid a pinkish egg. If I put them in a white carton with white eggs, the little girls would tell me they loved the 'pink' eggs.
 
Auroradream26 said:


It's trick or treat night here. Happy Halloween!
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I totally forgot about it and thought it would be Friday. I went to grocery shop last night, and came back seeing the last group of trick-or-treaters passing my house. Now I have a huge bowl of chocolates setting on my counter top and no one going to eat them.
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I did make my son to wear his costume and knock my door, so I could give him one candy. The poor boy is only 2 year old, luckily he 's too young to be disappointed. Hopefully, I'll remember next year.
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