Surviving Minnesota!

[jerryse]

Heard the egg song over my lunch and the Olive egg actually belongs to miss kitty.

Yes the blues lay a greenish egg . Due to adding the pattern gene for improved lacing . I just do not see any improvement in lacing . I really no longer believe there is a pattern gene It seems to me patterns are created by the E locus interaction with genes . Silver penciled and Partridge are always with eb brown . Birchen and brown red always with ER . Laced as in Golden or silver laced always on eb brown .

 

[spurrer]

Did you mean sunrise?

 

[Minniechickmama]

Yes the blues lay a greenish egg . Due to adding the pattern gene for improved lacing . I just do not see any improvement in lacing . I really no longer believe there is a pattern gene It seems to me patterns are created by the E locus interaction with genes . Silver penciled and Partridge are always with eb brown . Birchen and brown red always with ER . Laced as in Golden or silver laced always on eb brown .

Have you ever found if using a Splash male over your Blue females improves the lacing? The best colored/laced Blue I have seen other than an Andalusian was a Blue Cochin pullet of Rick Klehr's at the State Fair and State Show this year. She turned the heads of the judges at those shows as well. The Blue was clean and nice toned and the lacing was sharp and within the proper amount for Blue. All the Blues I have had either had no lacing or they were way too dark with the Blue or mossy in the main coloring.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I had one of my Asian customers come out today for roosters and old hens. He called this morning and wanted to know if between 5-6 o'clock would work to get the ones I had for him (around 60). He showed up an hour early and I hadn't even gotten through sorting all the large fowl cockerels. It worked out okay though, he wasn't going to have time to process them all tonight, so he took all I had ready to go in his truck and will come back later in the week for the rest. It is a good thing too because I have about 20 bantam Faverolle cockerels running in the pasture that I will probably be pulling off roosts tomorrow to pen up and sort through before he comes back. There is no way I would have caught them all before it got too dark. They are wild and fly over my fences without batting an eye about it.
By week's end though, I should be rid of all the extra males and old hens I need to cull out! Now, to get the extra New Hampshire pullets and the Cornish out of here.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

The bird and egg are gorgeous Jerry.

The super moon looks better to me tonight. Pretty bright.

Ed we are going to do our best by Sadie Mae. I do understand why some of these dogs go to pounds. They are expensive and lots of work. This one can be down right exasperating. She is responsive to training. We taught her lie down last night. And we taught her rollover tonight. Prepping that brain for her special necklace. She seems to be enjoying all the extra attention but still had a stint of neighbor property visit tonight. Nobody home over there now. But she got chewed out again. Come on UPS man.

 

[jerryse]

Morning

 

[ejb3810]

Wow Jerry, everyone seems to be sleeping in this morning?

 

[Cebarmlds]

Good morning

 

[duluthralphie]

I was too busy getting chewed out to say G'Morning on here. I know it is hard to believe but I am in trouble already today, I did it by being nice to the WWD.

We have the fancy Keureg coffee maker like the city people do. It flashes "add Water" . I added water.

I did not notice it was full already. Water is a clear odorless liquid. In a transparent plastic storage tank in semi dark conditions water cannot be seen. It sort of ran over the counter, I simply said "Oh, Oh, I made a mess"..


I think the WWD took that has a confession of wrong doing on my part and she let me have it. She being a witch offspring can sense a persons thought. Her first yell from the bathroom was, "Did you add water to the already full coffeemaker?".

I did not answer, I simply said " it was flashing "add water" Whoever filled it last never reset it. That started a whole round of "don't blame me".....you would think of over 40 years living with a WWD I would know better than to say anything.

 

[I Love Layers]

Good morning