Surviving Minnesota!

[jerryse]

Day 9 on the mushroom grow . Harvested the larger one and put then in a omelet . Second pic is a truckload of ash fence boards on top and burr oak on bottom . I am staying busy .

 

[CindyinSD]

Crossing with the Buckeye will add the brown egg color genes. If your goal is blue eggs, the brown egg color genes are nearly impossible to breed out.

What do you cross them with to get the rose combs, then?

 

[R2elk]

What do you cross them with to get the rose combs, then?

Rose Comb Brown Leghorns which lay white eggs. It is relatively easy to breed in the blue egg gene which is a single gene rather than trying to breed out the brown egg color which may be affected by as many as 11 different brown egg color genes.

 

[CindyinSD]

Boy RCBLs or girls?

 

[R2elk]

Boy RCBLs or girls?

It works either way. I used CCL roosters over RCBL hens but you can go either way, it doesn't matter.

 

[duluthralphie]

Boy RCBLs or girls?

I have used the Legbars to make olive eggs.
It is fairly easy like making Easter eggs for kids.

However, making the olive eggs back into blue is not so easy. I couldn’t do it.

 

[jerryse]

I have used the Legbars to make olive eggs.
It is fairly easy like making Easter eggs for kids.

However, making the olive eggs back into blue is not so easy. I couldn’t do it.

White egg layers are the best way to get the brown out . Chalk white like Leghorn .

 

[CindyinSD]

I have used the Legbars to make olive eggs.
It is fairly easy like making Easter eggs for kids.

However, making the olive eggs back into blue is not so easy. I couldn’t do it.

So... that is just brown coating over a blue shell, right? I have a few olive eggers. Pretty... I wouldn't mind making more. Maybe my Buckeye roo will accidentally make them, breeding my pretty legbar girls...

 

[R2elk]

So... that is just brown coating over a blue shell, right? I have a few olive eggers. Pretty... I wouldn't mind making more. Maybe my Buckeye roo will accidentally make them, breeding my pretty legbar girls...

Technically the brown goes the whole way through the shell and is not "just" a brown coating. Chemical test results have proven this. It is the same for the blue egg dye only it gets applied earlier in the cycle and penetrates more completely.

 

[jerryse]

Hey Ralphie be careful working those bees .

Randy Oliver of scientificbeekeeping.com. NY Bee Wellness Workshop, August 7, 2016. Good for beginning beekeepers. Basic management of bees, disease identifi...