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[CuzChickens]

Haha, yeah I wasn't too gung-ho about trying sushi for the first time, but my friend, @fandomtrash8 decided to drag me to a birthday trip, and we had sushi. And I fell in love.

I definitely agree with your opinion on the "Silkies" the white one was certainly pure, blue skin and everything, but the other was no doubt a cross.

I don't know about the Blue one. They called it an Ameraucana, and I know there is such a thing as a blue ameraucana, I hope to get some next year, but I don't know if that one was pure.

Your Maran is pretty! Yes, you are right about that breed, I went back and looked at a different picture I took of them, and that's what they were.

 

[Sylvester017]

Haha, yeah I wasn't too gung-ho about trying sushi for the first time, but my friend, @fandomtrash8 decided to drag me to a birthday trip, and we had sushi. And I fell in love.

I definitely agree with your opinion on the "Silkies" the white one was certainly pure, blue skin and everything, but the other was no doubt a cross.

I don't know about the Blue one. They called it an Ameraucana, and I know there is such a thing as a blue ameraucana, I hope to get some next year, but I don't know if that one was pure.

Your Maran is pretty! Yes, you are right about that breed, I went back and looked at a different picture I took of them, and that's what they were.

Sushi in our area is less than appetizing. Just walking by sushi on ice in restaurants is enough to hold my nose. Guess I'm not a raw fish type. DH on the other hand loves the California rolls. I can't handle the seaweed. I found I was allergic to kelp years ago and that may be my problem.

White Silkies make me smile. We saw about 10 of the cuties at our County Fair a couple years ago and it was so blazing hot that day that all 10 birds were sitting in front of a 20" box fan feeling the breeze ruffle through their fluffy feathers -- wish we had our camera! My own Silkie would tap on our fan when she wanted us to turn it on for her and she positioned herself in front of it.


The Blue Easter Egger shouldn't have been classified as "Ameraucana" -- it's no wonder people get confused about the two.

Although our Cuckoo Marans was a pill and re-homed back to her original flock, we currently have an unusual Cuckoo juvenile which is a Breda. Breda have no comb but a tiny triangle tassle where a comb should be, have large cavernous crow-like nostrils, long vulture hocks, and very long feathered legs/feet. A much more docile light-weight breed to keep around our Silkies. When her wattles grow out a bit more we will integrate her with the Silkies. We lost our other gentle Blue Breda this past summer -- she had been great around the bantams. I am so bummed that my Breda breeder has closed out their Blue (B/B/S) and Cuckoo Bredas and only concentrating on the Mottled variety now and working to improve the breed:

Cuckoo Breda













Blue Breda we lost this summer:











You must post more pics of the chickens at the Fair. We like to see what people think show quality birds are. Sometimes the birds are gorgeous and other times I wonder what they were thinking

!! County Fair birds are rarely as pretty as actual show club entrants but still fun to see as we all love chickens anyway.

 

[CuzChickens]

Hmm, I've never noticed a particularly unappealing smell about sushi....the pier stinks worse than the sushi! I had the California rolls, I'm pretty sure.....I'm bad with my sushi names.

Well, the blue easter egger placed first, I think that cross breeds and breeds like Olive eggers, Easter Eggers, sex-links, and whatnot, though they are popular, they are not true breeds, and they shouldn't really go in a fair. IMHO. Geez, and I really thought it was a blue ameraucana.

Lol, the silkie and the fan is priceless!

Awww, Breda is cute, and you can tell by the pictures that she is quite the character! I really want to get Marans next year, hopefully black ones to cross with blue ameraucanas for blue olive eggers.......my breeding project.....

I'll probably get on my computer tomorrow and upload some pictures. I'm currently seasoning some rooster capes, so I'm gonna post pictures of them and see what folks think. I'll upload some fair pics if I get the chance.

 

[Bunnylady]

Well, a lot of the birds at our fair that are identifiable as a breed are hatchery birds, and we all know what we know about them. A lot get entered by people who don't really know what they have; same with the rabbits. But there isn't a lot of agriculture in our area, so we want to encourage as much participation as we can. Sometimes, we just smile, nod, say nothing, and go on . . . .

 

[Sylvester017]

Well, a lot of the birds at our fair that are identifiable as a breed are hatchery birds, and we all know what we know about them. A lot get entered by people who don't really know what they have; same with the rabbits. But there isn't a lot of agriculture in our area, so we want to encourage as much participation as we can. Sometimes, we just smile, nod, say nothing, and go on . . . .

Agreed! Our Fair is in an agricultural surrounding so there's no excuses at our poor quality Fair which is always held in the hottest month of the year here - Sept. The poultry area is usually just a little fenced tented enclosure with 2 or 3 cutesy little painted coops and rarely more than 20 chickens of one or two breeds and no chicken show that I'm aware of. But maybe that's a good thing -- I'd hate to see chickens sweltering in that Sept heatwave every year! Last year a Jersey cow gave birth in a pen with a crowd watching and her companion cowmate kept wanting to look over the newborn and the mother was anxiously trying to keep her away. Not a good show IMO when animals are not monitored -- in nature mothers will go off to hide and have their babies with some quiet time bonding and it's a very unnatural setting for a poor cow to give birth in the middle of a tent with crowds plus another bothersome cowmate in the enclosure which she didn't need. A sick juvenile chick was obviously on its last leg in a brooder and the other chicks kept pecking it -- it took us 45 minutes to get someone to unlock the enclosure and put the dying chick by itself to die in peace. We aren't going to any more of those sweltering Fairs when the animals are so poorly monitored. Humans can be so cruel to living things!

 

[Sylvester017]

Hmm, I've never noticed a particularly unappealing smell about sushi....the pier stinks worse than the sushi! I had the California rolls, I'm pretty sure.....I'm bad with my sushi names.

Well, the blue easter egger placed first, I think that cross breeds and breeds like Olive eggers, Easter Eggers, sex-links, and whatnot, though they are popular, they are not true breeds, and they shouldn't really go in a fair. IMHO. Geez, and I really thought it was a blue ameraucana.

Lol, the silkie and the fan is priceless!

Awww, Breda is cute, and you can tell by the pictures that she is quite the character! I really want to get Marans next year, hopefully black ones to cross with blue ameraucanas for blue olive eggers.......my breeding project.....

I'll probably get on my computer tomorrow and upload some pictures. I'm currently seasoning some rooster capes, so I'm gonna post pictures of them and see what folks think. I'll upload some fair pics if I get the chance.

TeeHee! The only reason my DH will eat the Calif rolls is because there's no raw fish - out here it's made with tuna, avocado, white rice, and rolled in kelp leaves! Sushi's got a bad name out here since the stuff is shipped to restaurants already pre-made. It's rare to find a good restaurant that rolls their own fresh sushi.

Actual truebred Blue Ameraucanas should look like this - dark edging on body feathers and much darker neck hackles - this is only a 4-month-old pullet and not in adult feathering yet but there are no other colors on the body -- no gold, no salmon, no brown, no white, no red:




A true Blue Breda should look like this -- the Blue color variety in any chicken breed always have edged blue-gray body feathers with darker neck hackles -- no other colors in the feathers:



Our County Fair stinks where we live. See my post #15 above.

Yep, Silkies are a hoot because of their fluffy no-barbicel fur and they get into cobwebs and catch debris all the time in their "hair." These little clowns are probably the best layers of decent-size eggs out of the bantam breeds IMO and provide hours of entertainment:




I haven't seen too many OE eggs. Friend of mine had an OE from a Cuckoo Marans/EE mix but can't remember if the egg shells came out speckled or not since the dark egg layers like Marans and Wellies can often lay speckled eggs -- all depends on how much pigment coats the shell before it's layed by the hen. My Marans layed a different shell every time - sometimes speckled, sometimes half-brown/half dark, sometimes tiny speckles, sometimes large blotchy splotches, etc. It was interesting reading the Marans club article on egg pigmentation and egg colors of chicken breeds. If you're interested in reading the details of egg colors - white, brown, tinted, blue, green, etc, the following Marans page has a link in the middle of its page A Review of Egg Color: http://maranschickenclubusa.com/

Definitely want to see your Fair chicken pics!