The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ronott1]

The daily Digest has been updated!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...nual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/70#post_12992665

 

[Penny Hen]

I have Belgian D'uccle Mille Fleur hens that I am breeding with a roo of the same breed. I have Ameraucana/Araucana cross hens (they lay a blue to bluish green egg) that I am breeding with a roo of the same type and a mostly white Cochin Frizzle roo. And I have Cochin/Polish backyard mix ladies being bred with the A/A roo and Cochin Frizzle roo. There is a great variety of coloring to my backyard mix in feather color and pattern. They range in size from super small micro bantam to about 3 lb gals (though I haven't weighed them lately) who clearly have more Polish than Cochin and sport awesome "hair-dos". I can send you some photos if you want to see my flock. I've started calling it my homegrown Rainbow Layers project. Perhaps yet this year I will add some more birds who lay darker brown eggs, that is if I can get some hatching eggs to hatch them myself. What I wouldn't give to find a lavendar bantam layer, but I haven't found any of those breeds in bantam yet.

Cupids Delite has Bantam Lavender Ameraucanas as well as white ones and Bantam Dominiques. If you wanted you could cross the Lave Ams with the Doms and get Sexlink Black barred Olive Eggers split to Lavender. With a few generations more you could set the barring in Lavender and have Barred Lavender Olive Eggers.

 

[chicken pickin]

Cupids Delite has Bantam Lavender Ameraucanas as well as white ones and Bantam Dominiques. If you wanted you could cross the Lave Ams with the Doms and get Sexlink Black barred Olive Eggers split to Lavender. With a few generations more you could set the barring in Lavender and have Barred Lavender Olive Eggers.

Oh that's sounds like a lovely chicken

 

[mlm Mike]

Mimddh, Punkin was one of two hatchery chicks too young ( a bit over a year ago) to go outside when fully feathered during a cold, wet spell. Yeah, that's the story and I'm sticking to it. Anyway, by the time I put them outside, Sparkle the House Silkie (another story behind her) was going out into the fenced garden every day but coming back into the house at night and any other time of day.

Sparkle was a "rescue" who had been in two other flocks but bullied and beaten up in them, so her last owner looked for somebody who would take her and let her be a house chicken. I picked her up about sixty miles away from my house, halfway between it and her last owner's property. She has hatched and raised four small broods of flock chicks in the house, since she came home with me. She takes her charges outside into the garden for their chicken lessons.

Beth and Punkin figured out Sparkle was coming in and out through the door onto the deck and they decided they would come inside too, to lay their eggs in the laundry hamper. Beth joined the coop crew like a normal chicken, but Punkin spent nights inside the house. As she still does.

She goes outside every morning - voluntarily - to spend the day with the flock, then comes back inside to roost at night on the audio bar on the TV set table.

Hence "Part-time" House Chicken.

Wonderful story, I do remember Sparkle, I just didn't realize you had some "part-timers", too.

 

[Gardeningmama]

Happy Anniversary Cynthia! The Brady bunch has got nothing on your family, does it??

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[thowe]

I will be getting some Spitz and lemon cuckoo Orpingtons eggs for hatch a long. So excited. This is my first hatch and I have been reading a lot of info, but I have a ? About the vent plugs on the little giant with fan. When I take plugs out for more ventilation will temp need to be adjusted again?

 

[chicken pickin]

I will be getting some Spitz and lemon cuckoo Orpingtons eggs for hatch a long. So excited. This is my first hatch and I have been reading a lot of info, but I have a ? About the vent plugs on the little giant with fan. When I take plugs out for more ventilation will temp need to be adjusted again?

LOL you must live somewhere near me. I just recently bought some spitz eggs also. They are all fertile and developing well.

 

[pickitfarm]

It's our anniversary today..22 years for us.

So glad I found this man to grow old with. We had the .. His, mine, and ours for children. 12 of them. Now waiting for our 33rd grandchild to be born this spring, and our first great grandchild this fall! Where does the time go?
All I can say is, that I am blessed!

 

[Christabelle]

Post office destroyed my mom's Am eggs :'(

So sad.

 

[Gardeningmama]

Look Sally's got on her Chillin' With My Peeps Tee....Hmmm I gotta get one of those.