The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

[Ravynscroft]

Okay thoughts on this

http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog/Day-Old-Baby-Chicks/Super-Blue-Egg-Layer-p1945.aspx

Leghorns mixed with a blue layer for a production blue layer. Probably.

X2

The only thing is if the blue egg layer is only carrying 1 blue egg gene, not all the pullets will lay blue...

 

[Cynthia12]

Really it's no secret. Some kind if rooster from a blue egg ( Ameraucana or something like that) over White Leghorn hens.

@DMRippy has been breeding them for a couple if years.

Yep, have a friend that breeds them this way..A white leghorn hen, and an EE rooster.. and gets the prettiest blue eggs! And, the hens lay almost every day because of the leghorn in them. The birds are usually white with black spots.

 

[bantambury]

I set 12!

 

[cree57i]

MPC's description of their Isbars made us giggle.

It was WRONG.

@KYTinpusher set them right though.

I hope they corrected it. Isbar are not autosexing. Life would be simpler if they were, but they are NOT.

 

[Razadia]

Quote: They fixed it, but I have seen it before.

 

[draye]

I think she invented the sapphires

Both the SBEL and the Sapphire.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Leghorns mixed with a blue layer for a production blue layer. Probably.

Really it's no secret. Some kind if rooster from a blue egg ( Ameraucana or something like that) over White Leghorn hens.

@DMRippy has been breeding them for a couple if years.

I think she invented the sapphires

X2

The only thing is if the blue egg layer is only carrying 1 blue egg gene, not all the pullets will lay blue...

Yep, have a friend that breeds them this way..A white leghorn hen, and an EE rooster.. and gets the prettiest blue eggs!  And, the hens lay almost every day because of the leghorn in them.  The birds are usually white with black spots.   

Ahhh okay. Yeah, they acted so secretive about it and charging $19 a chick too!!

ETA: $2 more ($21) for sexed females

 

[ShrekDawg]

Both the SBEL and the Sapphire.

 

[Hawk12]

Candled eggs today. Out of 79 originally set I'm down to 55. Of those 55 I only see 31 that have confirmed life. I will recandle in 3 days. All eggs were shipped, most that I've lost so far were clear. Feeling discouraged...its only day 7.

 

[1kluckychik]

It was WRONG.

@KYTinpusher set them right though.

I hope they corrected it. Isbar are not autosexing. Life would be simpler if they were, but they are NOT.

Lol. And the "pinkish" egg part too.
I will never visit that website again.