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[gonehencrazy]

Looks like one of my BCM pullets started laying today too. It's SPR, RB, wheaten Marans, BCM (pullet), BCM, CCL, EE

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Love the variety!! That's my goal. The Wheaten Maran egg is quite dark! I don't have any dark egg layers...waiting to see what my Welsummer crosses lay.

 

[TillyPeeps]

I tried to get a picture of Jewel's ugly bruise tonight. Of course, my camera was dying and she didn't want me to touch even the feathers near it to hold them back so this was the best I could get. It doesn't quite show the weird green color but you can see the scabs and some of the green.

Looks like one of my BCM pullets started laying today too. It's SPR, RB, wheaten Marans, BCM (pullet), BCM, CCL, EE

Poor girl, hope she will recover quickly.

My rhodebar eggs is as dark as your Marans eggs, and saw she laid them so it's definitely hers. Since the Welsummer roo did mate CCL next door, I suspect he also had something to do with this egg color. Bear the Rhodefelder started laying again today after a long break, but her egg is lighter brown. I'm curious to see how dark will the Welbar eggs be. But Penny's comb and face just turning red now, so I may never see her eggs.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Looks like one of my BCM pullets started laying today too. It's SPR, RB, wheaten Marans, BCM (pullet), BCM, CCL, EE

Love the variety!! That's my goal. The Wheaten Maran egg is quite dark! I don't have any dark egg layers...waiting to see what my Welsummer crosses lay.[/quote]

Thank you I really wish the camera could show the true color but the flash really washed it out. The dark eggs are actualy darker than they look.

 

[fisherlady]

15 days until settlement!

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@fisherlady You can stop doing the broody dance now

Who? Me?

Now would I ever wish broodiness on anyone??

Love the variety!! That's my goal. The Wheaten Maran egg is quite dark! I don't have any dark egg layers...waiting to see what my Welsummer crosses lay.

Thank you I really wish the camera could show the true color but the flash really washed it out. The dark eggs are actualy darker than they look.[/quote]
Love the egg color ranges!
From the looks of her bruise some TLC is definitely called for, as stake suggested scrambled eggs would be a great boost for her.

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

So yesterday morning I was woken out of bed by an unfamiliar sound outside of my bedroom window. I got out of bed, looked out and saw a big white Turkey. When I left my chickens out, she kind of just made herself at home with them and was there all day, last night when I cooped my guys and girls up, she hopped on the roof of the coop and was still there this morning.



Now we live in a farming area, but I am stumped as to where she came from since we are surrounded by other new homes, none of which have chickens like we do, or any other kind of birds. If she walked from over a half mile away what would have made her walk that far in the first place and now suddenly just stay here???

If this is now "our turkey" how can I get her to roost safely inside the coop?? She is pretty safe on top of the coop, but once winter comes it would not be a good place for her to be. Any suggestions???


OHHHH! and on a side note, we got our first chicken egg yesterday! Little Silkie egg

I know I am super wayyy behind, but..cograts on the egg

..and the turkey.

Honestly the first thing my mind went to was bio-security...sorry, just were i am at with all this crazy stuff anymore.
If you keep it, great, but you'll want to think about quarantine first. Only saying because i care & I have to, PT for PA.
I haven't even read the rest of the posts to know if someone already said this, sorry...but can't be too careful!

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Ok. Thanks. So excuse My ignorance. Are you saying you get your corn cracked. It's not just whole corn? Is there an easy way to crack it if you get whole corn? Maybe I'll need to go buy from feed store. I know a farmer I could get from but he had someone else he gets to grind it and with budget was trying to avoid the middle man. But might not be possible.

my goodness, no problems giving answers...even the right ones are free!

We get the whole corn..it is not broken-up. The girls handle it. They have grit, sand and whatever else they can get a hold of to help break it down.
I actually missed an opportunity to get a hand crank "cracking" machine...

, yeah well...the DH knows now I will not walk away from another again.

You could use a hammer I suppose, like some people do for walnuts...time consuming though. Maybe a very heavy duty food processor?...I am not much help I'm afraid..I apologize.
Feed stores do carry the cracked- stuff, middle man.

Barring is both sexlinked and partially dominant. The 2 properties are can work together. The sex linked property means that females have either 0 or 1 copy of the barring gene:
0 copies - black bird, no barring visible
1 copy - barred bird, like a barred rock hen

Males, OTOH, can have 0, 1, or 2 copies because they have 2 similar sex chromosomes.
0 copies - black bird, no barring visible
1 copy - barred bird, like a barred rock hen
2 copied - barred bird, like a barred rock cock

If you look at a pic of a pair of barred rocks, you will see that the cock, besides a larger comb and other rooster characteristics, looks much whiter than the hen. This is the effect of the 2nd copy of the barring gene. A barred breed cock must have 2 copies and be extra white in order to produce all barred female offspring. A barred rock cock with only 1 copy of the barring gene would produce half barred rock daughters and half black rock daughters, regardless of whether his mate is barred or not. The female's barring gene has no effect on her daughters at all, it's all from the father's genes for sexlinked traits like barring. It is impossible to create a black rock from a pair of barred rocks (where the male is double barred as he should be). But it is simple to create a true breeding strain of barred rocks from black rocks if you have a single barred bird. It could take several generations if you start with a barred hen, but it is very doable.

A few results of this:
1) a pullet can never be double barred (extra white, like a good cockerel)
2) true breeding only happens if the cock is homozygous (2 copies, extra white, in the case of barring) and you have a matching hen (single barred).

I am going to be coping this & printing it out! Not kidding either. You could not have explained this any more simply then that. I can read this 10 times and still understand it!

...just super awesome, THANK YOU so much!!

SO, now I need to get a 2 copied barred bird...hee-hee....
Has anyone ever used a crow-collar?....been thinking....dangerous, i know. Rooster is an option for me, but DH is totally against crowing.

(For himself & the neighbors, as if their 5 dogs isn't an inconvenience for everyone, but what? who said that?)
Anyway.... If I can curb this affliction, then I have breeding options. & this folks, is what we are here for..am I right? or am I right?????....more birds and fuzzy math.

When I went out to feed the flock this morning I spied my newly laying leghorn sitting in a nesting box!! It made me giddy to see her there. Is that normal!?! Lol...I'm becoming crazy chicken stalker! I'd have four more horses if I could afford it so I'll collect chickens instead!

I do like your reasoning!!

I bought two 1 year old Cream Legbars yesterday from super nice lady. She hatched them out but needed to down size. I'd love to have some darker blue eggs from Ameraucanas but blue is blue and one laid today, despite an hour and half drive to a new home



Brown egg is from my 8 month old Red Star and the white is from my newly laying leghorn

nice!!

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

15 days until settlement!

your gonna need an ark to get everything there

.....I am so very happy for you!!

So that means you've got the bator already running correct?

omgosh!!!

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

@fisherlady You can stop doing the broody dance now

oh my gosh!..look at them all!!!...don't even think of getting anywhere near my girls. They have enough crazy ideas!!

I tried to get a picture of Jewel's ugly bruise tonight. Of course, my camera was dying and she didn't want me to touch even the feathers near it to hold them back so this was the best I could get. It doesn't quite show the weird green color but you can see the scabs and some of the green.





Looks like one of my BCM pullets started laying today too. It's SPR, RB, wheaten Marans, BCM (pullet), BCM, CCL, EE

oh, poor girl! You can see the green...ouch!
Stake was right..protein and I think Fisher...electrolytes!!..and of course the TLC, but you have that covered no probs.!
Love the egg variety, makes me think I need some blue

.....hahahaha

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

I have never seen anything like this before...had to get a pic.
Is anyone familiar with this? Type of spider?...




Went out to the front porch this morning & right there on the porch rug was feathers and the head of a bird..tweety bird, not chicken bird.
Got a pic of that too but didn't want to scar anyone. wasn't messy or anything, very clean.
DH and I watched a hawk take a small bird right out of the air a couple day ago....the girls were as still as statues in their run....someone let out the alarm, then all went still and quiet. They are protected well, all fenced/netted in.
It has been hanging around for the little birds. Not sure what did that on the porch though. Was most likely one of the neighbors many cats. Not the first time a "gift" was left on the porch.

 

[KJ6485]

I know I am super wayyy behind, but..cograts on the egg

..and the turkey.

Honestly the first thing my mind went to was bio-security...sorry, just were i am at with all this crazy stuff anymore.
If you keep it, great, but you'll want to think about quarantine first. Only saying because i care & I have to, PT for PA.
I haven't even read the rest of the posts to know if someone already said this, sorry...but can't be too careful!

Well that is actually the first thing that went through my mind as well when I seen her, but I am not able to catch her, while she is not terrified, she is also not catchable, at this point I think I have to just cross my fingers and hope for the best.