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

[SilkiesForEver]

Quote: Perfect! I usually leave it on for at least 2 days. Then you can take it off, and see how the foot is doing to determine if it needs more time.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I wouldn't do that. I would offer them for $5 a pullet $3.50 strait run like I offered my friends. I produce good birds they will come back

and send friends.

I figured you wouldnt do that. Thats a good price

 

[Susieq2015]

You can get the leghorns just about anywhere and EEs are everywhere too, so have fun and make ur own. Good Luck

Yep that's been my new motto since January when I couldn't find the chicks I wanted. So have EE x Leghorns in the brooder with my other EE crosses and about 20 WL eggs growing now for this HAL. All by my 2 EE roos except 2 weeks ago I moved 1 WL hen in with my Legbar roo

 

[Penny Hen]

19 of my 20 eggs are developing healthy veins! So eggcited about them even though no one else in my family cares....

Understand that. DH wonders why I don't tell him when I set eggs. It because he can't say one thing positive about it. Everything is either, "I don't want any more Foul! (spelling intended) or We have enough Foul already!' OR if I tell him I am selling them, How do you know they will sell! or if I explain I have orders for these then they will obviously back out and stick me with them or not be able to pick them up for 2 or 3 weeks. I want to scream sometimes. I even got mad at him one day and told him (calmly) if they don't sell in 3 weeks I'd cut their heads off myself and feed them to the dogs. That ****** him off.

 

[Penny Hen]

X2

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

That is why you use a full Ameraucana or a Cream Crested Legbar. In general terms (not MPC specifically) the Sapphires are CCLxWL. The Super Blue Egg Layers (SBELs) are Ameraucana (any color)x Leghorn. If you use CCL's with Brown or Red Leghorns you can get Sexlinked Sapphires. Now CCl's x Isbars (lay green) get you Ice Cream Bars that lay a shade of green not quite like any other combination. Silver Ameraucanas x Golden Cuckoo Maran get you Sexlinked Olive Eggers. Solid AMs x Cuckoo Maran (white and black) will produce Sexlinked OE's. Now to make everybody's head spin round and round, I have seen British Auracanas eggs (tailed and crested) for sale here in the States on Ebay. Soon there will be a whole new round of possible combinations.

 

[Penny Hen]

Ok wrong thread but bent toe advice please (breeder of the sick pullet I got offered equivalent value in new hatchlings and they don't have coccidiosis) got this polish for free cause of his foot (same length wing feathers, think cockerel)

Looks like he broke the toe. I had a chick last year hatch in the rack and bailed out to the floor (10 inch drop) He broke his middle toes and I had to tape them straight. They are straighter but still a bit gnarly.

 

[ShrekDawg]

That is why you use a full Ameraucana or a Cream Crested Legbar. In general terms (not MPC specifically) the Sapphires are CCLxWL. The Super Blue Egg Layers (SBELs) are Ameraucana (any color)x Leghorn. If you use CCL's with Brown or Red Leghorns you can get Sexlinked Sapphires. Now CCl's x Isbars (lay green) get you Ice Cream Bars that lay a shade of green not quite like any other combination. Silver Ameraucanas x Golden Cuckoo Maran get you Sexlinked Olive Eggers. Solid AMs x Cuckoo Maran (white and black) will produce Sexlinked OE's. Now to make everybody's head spin round and round, I have seen British Auracanas eggs (tailed and crested) for sale here in the States on Ebay. Soon there will be a whole new round of possible combinations.

WOW! This is so interesting and such awesome info!! Someday I will try all of these projects or buy them! Although I also want every color Orpington and several Wyandotte varieties so that alone might be a big project. This is why people end up with hundreds of chickens.....

 

[chickendreams24]

She is average, comes back in When I call them. Not super flighty, but not cuddly. One of my favorites is an EE from MPC

Our EE are from Cackle Hatchery through our farm and fleet and they're some of our very favorite birds. We have four and three were quite flighty before laying and now they're sweet and docile and most really enjoy snuggles. One of them is the biggest ham and always has something to say and wants to know why I pay attention to any of the other birds here. good luck I hope you get as lucky as I did. They all also lay shades from blue to blue-green to green/olive. They also all look different.

I got these from someone that was moving. A trio of greys. The only one that hatched that I got from y'all was killed by another chick. The one I lost was a Houdan/Silkie, I think. I still don't get why he killed her. I think Bama said the aggressive one's dad was aggressive too, but the flood got him. That chick killed another pullet I had the same brooder before that, but Ugly Chicken was the last straw. The 2 I have left are RIRs. Not really friendly, but they love me when I have treats. 

Oh would you post a pic of your greys please? I'd love to see them. I have a pullet named Lovey that I can't put a name to her color. I've been told blue, blue/splash, blue partridge, and grey. She's stunning and could be mixed but if she is it ought to be a new color.

 

[chickendreams24]

Looks like he broke the toe. I had a chick last year hatch in the rack and bailed out to the floor (10 inch drop) He broke his middle toes and I had to tape them straight. They are straighter but still a bit gnarly.

I have a self blue oegb pullet that broke a toe last year an outside one though. I know she broke it BC it happened right after she got tangled in bird netting, long story. Anyway I wasn't able to straighten it but it doesn't bother her and it's not genetic BC her toes were perfect before that.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Our EE are from Cackle Hatchery through our farm and fleet and they're some of our very favorite birds. We have four and three were quite flighty before laying and now they're sweet and docile and most really enjoy snuggles. One of them is the biggest ham and always has something to say and wants to know why I pay attention to any of the other birds here. good luck I hope you get as lucky as I did. They all also lay shades from blue to blue-green to green/olive. They also all look different.
Oh would you post a pic of your greys please? I'd love to see them. I have a pullet named Lovey that I can't put a name to her color. I've been told blue, blue/splash, blue partridge, and grey. She's stunning and could be mixed but if she is it ought to be a new color.

I really hope that my EEs calm down. From what I've heard lately seems a lot of peoples EEs are flighty until they lay so I hope that mine calm down too