The Aloha Chicken Project

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That's awesome that you got 15 chicks already!!! Wow!

Went up to Laree's today. I saw about five hens that I really liked. Most exciting, she has two Buff Mottled hens! She says they weren't really showing spotting so I gave them to her, and they developed it later. So that's encouraging, being as I have two hens here who DO show it. One already looks like one of these hens, the other has less spotting, but now I can hope she'll develop more! And there were a few other hens that I really like. Right now, these will be put in with a Swedish roo (blue tail, not a ton of white, yuck) but maybe if one of my teen roos here can develop fast enough, I can lend him to her and hatch something really nice right before the "real" heat kicks in???

Here are the hens:



Above: A kind of Ginger hen with decent white. A bit gamey but not terribly small.


WOW! A really gorgeous Sussex / Aloha cross hen. Nice and big!



This front hen is awesome! Not huge but not at all tiny. Weirdly, she has spurs. Oh, and pure Aloha attitude!!!




This hen is pale buff. Her legs look pink to me but Laree said they were yellowish at one point.


Sassafrass, an original "Aloha" from the first generation. (Her mom was probably the original hen Ginger and dad was Vanilla.) Want ALL her chicks we can get!

I am thinking, if he can mature fast enough, that I'd like to put her in with this roo, the boy who looked really white to start but is now looking very much like a pure Swedish:



He has grown a bunch since this picture. He's five months old, and is suddenly very, very TALL. However, he has to fill in a lot.

I suspect he may be 3/4ths Swedish 1/4 Aloha. Here's his baby pic which shows how oddly white he was as a chick:



The question is, can he mature enough to fertilize Laree's hens before the heat comes on and they stop laying? Hmmm.
 
Laree's gold and white hen with yellow legs was broody, and she is SO totally Aloha, she screamed bloody murder at me when I put her in the Breeder pen! And fought and fought and fought like the dickens when I picked her up! I just love this hen and all that fight in her, she's awesome.

Here's a hilarious photo I took of her, when she realized I was going to try and lift her off the nest. Look at her face! ROFL!







This is a hen that is not going to let a predator hurt her or her babies without a fight! :)
 
alohachickens, I think Nui & Beauty with the half Aloha/half Swedish would be a great match. I think I would prefer to avoid the barring since I have this one ugly (but interesting) barred hen I'm playing with. I can deal with the white legs issue since I'm going to have birds with strong yellow to cross them with, so I would choose him since he's more mature also.

Glad you like the roo! He's really a beauty. I picked up one of Frank Reese's laying NH hens today and want to keep a small group of these birds going. That girl is something else! She compliments Paul beautifully. That's some awesome type going on there!

HEChicken, that is just unbelievable in a very good way that we're getting that high a hatch rate from the eggs. That's just crazy! I'm too excited about those chicks. Got to be something really fun in there! Woot!
 
Deerfield Acres said:
HEChicken, that is just unbelievable in a very good way that we're getting that high a hatch rate from the eggs. That's just crazy! I'm too excited about those chicks. Got to be something really fun in there! Woot!
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I'll take photos of the chicks from "Little Yellow Legs" pen. All the eggs marked with a star were from his pen. Many of these chicks have TONS of white on their chests right now.

15littlem said:
Love this hen!!! What is her parentage? BO x SFH or BO x SS, BO x Aloha or something different?
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She is "pre-Swedish" so has to be all Aloha, with outcross lines of NHR, Buff Rock, or Speckled Sussex. I am guessing she is from the "Cheeto" lines. He was 1/2 Buff Rock, 1/4 NHR, and 1/4 Aloha. It was probably from him over a colorful Aloha hen, or one of his daughters crossed back to a colorful Aloha rooster.
 
I have a new batch of 25+ baby chicks here and they are SO cute! I know all the chicks are cute . . . but these are probably the cutest I've seen in a long time. :)

There are a bunch of 1/2 to 3/4 "big chicken" + Aloha mixes, and several that are either full or half Swedish as well. They are much rounder than most Aloha chicks, and have heavier bodies with really fat round bellies.

I had just moved my Swedish hens in with the (barred but colorful) roo next door, when I set these eggs, so these Swedish eggs could be fertile by the pure Swedish, or the part Swedish roos, or the spotty roo from next door. Either way, apparently it was something BIG. (When I was filling the 'bator, I picked out all the really huge eggs and stuck 'em in there.)

I also have some chicks out of Aloha x Swedish hens with a pure Swedish roo, and pure Sussex hens with the Swedish x Aloha roo. Some of these chicks are just enormous!

Heather, my chicks usually hatch early, so that's not typical of Alohas. Mine tend to go off at day 20. I always seem to have one that goes off even earlier in every batch! Drives me crazy! I call that one the "early bird" and one seems to show up in every batch. :)

The hatches can be kind of "draggy" with a few stragglers at the end but I think that's also been typical of other breeds I've hatched out? They do not show a huge interest in food at first, that's true, it really doesn't kick in until Day 3 when they start to lose their reserves. (But at least I feel a little better about shipping them. They wouldn't really be eating or drinking much anyway.)
 
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I'll take photos of the chicks from "Little Yellow Legs" pen. All the eggs marked with a star were from his pen. Many of these chicks have TONS of white on their chests right now.
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Both of eggs marked with a red star hatched although they were among the last to hatch so I was a little worried they wouldn't. I tried to make note of which they were but now that they're all fluffed out, I don't have a clue LOL. I do know they were darker chicks than some. We ended up with 16 total out of the 18 eggs! I'd be happy with that hatch rate if I'd brought them in from my coop and set them, but after the trip they had, I am stunned and amazed to get such a great hatch. These must be some tough little eggs.

This morning they are all doing great, zipping around like crazy and even sampling the food and water.
 
I took photos of Laree's spotty "Easter Egger" type Alohas. She's right, they are cute! I told her it would be nice to have a big EE roo to bring them up to full size, but she kept saying that she really liked the smaller Alohas, because she feels they survive the heat better, they eat less food, and they still lay almost as big an egg as a large chicken.

Interesting points.

Either way, she's right, the spotty EE'er types are really, really cute! If they laid a blue egg, I can see how a lot of folks would love to have them!

One contains Mille D'uccle - we ordered some eggs a few years ago, from a BYC'er who had had a Sussex / D'uccle crossbreeding thing going on. It was before the Swedish were imported and we were looking to expand the Aloha bloodlines. Didn't have a great hatch rate on the shipped eggs, but did get this one. Here's the mom:


I decided not to use her in my program because she was smaller, kind of "upright" in body and had the fluffy legs. So she stayed at Laree's. She was then (I think) crossed with an Aloha, "Pumpkin" colored roo that was at her place for a long time. A spotty guy with puffy cheeks and slate legs. I think this is the dad most likely:


This would be the result of that breeding:

Which makes her Aloha, (from way-back Ameraucana lines) plus Sussex and D'uccle. Size was comparable to most Alohas.

Here's another one from Aloha / Ameraucana lines:



The top hen - the D'uccle x Sussex hen with all the spotting - is now in with her Swedish roo. It will be interesting to see what that produces! No "Aloha" there in that cross but she may improve the amount of white on the chicks, so we'll see. Laree says all her chicks end up looking fabulous, so good odds that either her or her friend will keep any hen-chicks from that pairing.
 
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Pic obviously comes from Tiny Tots Seramas, all credit to them. Any how, IT'S A MINI ALOHA!!!
 

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