halefamily_flock
Songster
Farmington, MO -- about an hour south of St. Louis. In a few weeks, I will start collecting eggs from my flock to hatch for Easter. I've been experimenting with heritage breed crosses that create beautiful, predator savvy, Missouri climate hardy (for cold winters and hot, humid summers), free range chickens that lay a rainbow of colored eggs (blue, green, pink, brown, cream, white) and are sexable as chicks. Here's what they look like. Anyone interested in chicks or hatching eggs for local pickup?
Here are the eggs these beauties hatched from...
Hatching from Pink eggs, sired by white egg rooster...
The light cream and light pink eggs in the middle are from the black crested beauties above...
These beauties are only 9 weeks old, so we have to speculate egg color. Based on the genetics, most will lay green eggs, with the possibility of a random pink or brown. We have a couple that should be definitely blue (e.g. the dark brown to the left of the cockerel in photo 3). Yes, that is a cockerel in the third picture with big comb & wattles. He will not lay any eggs lol but carries olive egger genes.
Here are the eggs these beauties hatched from...
Hatching from Pink eggs, sired by white egg rooster...
The light cream and light pink eggs in the middle are from the black crested beauties above...
These beauties are only 9 weeks old, so we have to speculate egg color. Based on the genetics, most will lay green eggs, with the possibility of a random pink or brown. We have a couple that should be definitely blue (e.g. the dark brown to the left of the cockerel in photo 3). Yes, that is a cockerel in the third picture with big comb & wattles. He will not lay any eggs lol but carries olive egger genes.
