The Middle Tennessee Thread

[ddhyland]

I have both, white and dark, she is not my darkest layer just a new one. Middle is an EE and the right is a Super Blue Egg Layer.

Those are gorgeous! Love that dark egg!

 

[heirloomorps]

I was saying to DH today that I really enjoy the blue eggs in our egg basket. One day I will get a picture of our egg color ranges!

Tomorrow I want to get some guinea pictures though.

 

[TinTennessee]

I sure would live to have some blue & some olive eggs from my flock. I've got brown ,green, pinkish, white, a nice splattered brown & bantamn white eggs. I just need chocolate brown & blue.

 

[DMRippy]

I sure would live to have some blue & some olive eggs from my flock. I've got brown ,green, pinkish, white, a nice splattered brown & bantamn white eggs. I just need chocolate brown & blue.

You don't have any dark Marans? I might have some Olive Egger growing out. I was hatching them like crazy when I had my extra marans in the Am pen. We need to fix that...... OH and you need a SBEL too... they lay my bluest eggs.... strange to since they only have one copy of the blue egg gene.



CCL on either side of a Super Blue egg layer. All are pullet eggs.

 

[FeyRaine]

I sure would live to have some blue & some olive eggs from my flock. I've got brown ,green, pinkish, white, a nice splattered brown & bantamn white eggs. I just need chocolate brown & blue.

I was saying to DH today that I really enjoy the blue eggs in our egg basket. One day I will get a picture of our egg color ranges!

Tomorrow I want to get some guinea pictures though.

This is the first year I've had such a wide range of colors myself; it sure does make a pretty egg basket and it is fun to surprise ppl w/ so many colors. Of course they eat well too ;P
The funny part for me is that in going on 9 yrs of chickens I've never actually had a *white* egg layer, I have 3 MFLeghorn eggs in the bator at moment hoping to fix the lack of a white egg layer.

The 3 huge eggs in the center of the photo are Turkey eggs of course. I still really need to find a Bourbon Red Tom for those girls so we can have an actual troop of them.

 

[DMRippy]

Got to the farm and found two guinea dead. My son said they were fighting...clearly they lost.

 

[Penny Hen]

I sure would live to have some blue & some olive eggs from my flock. I've got brown ,green, pinkish, white, a nice splattered brown & bantamn white eggs. I just need chocolate brown & blue.

Chickensmart in Portland has some Barnaucana Olive Eggers (Barnvelder/AmeraucanX). She also has some Barnvelders and BCMarans for the dark chocholate. I have some of her BCM/Am Olive Eggers.


Pullet eggs and Cinder modeling her new saddle.





Cinder and Little, dark blue and light blue, lay olive




Raven and Long John Silver, copper necked, penciled silver duckwing; Raven lays brown with darker tiny speckles.



Pullet eggs

Sorry that the tints on the eggs are a bit off. These were all taken by my computer camera (my digital camera's charger is missing) and the blue cast of the screen light changes the tint.

 

[memphis]

Hennypenny....i must say....Long John Silver is quite handsome! Did he come from Bev? I have Barnevelders from her & love them!

 

[Searsmom]

Here is what I have learned with keets. DON'T let them get cold they have to be warmer than chicks. Don't put them in a brooder they can RUN OUT OF .... you will never catch them. keep a cover on them... they fly very well. As long as they are warm they do pretty well. After the chick stage they are very hearty and hard to kill.

These first 2 pics are of the younger guinea and the next ones are maybe mixed but mostly the older guinea. Once they are grown I have only lost them to predators.

Good to know. I was going to let them stay in an open brooder, but I can fix up a chicken-wire lid for it. I've got toe warmers for transporting them home. They look so plump and contented!

I sure would live to have some blue & some olive eggs from my flock. I've got brown ,green, pinkish, white, a nice splattered brown & bantamn white eggs. I just need chocolate brown & blue.

Ahh! That's where I am. I've got the BCM chicks and am on a list for Cream Legbar this summer. I can't seem to get any EE (what they call Ameraucana) that lay blue eggs from the co-op.

Got to the farm and found two guinea dead. My son said they were fighting...clearly they lost.

Clearly. Bummer. I've heard the males get incredibly hormonal in the spring.

 

[DMRippy]

I have more boys guinea than girls so that may be part of the problem. These were my older guinea and should have had all that worked out by now.... you would think.

I don't know the genders of the new ones but they may have been trying to get a new girl.... who knows.... my son may have hit both of them without knowing. One had a really blood head.... the other was missing an eye but that seemed like it was healed he was bare meat under one wing.... might have been shock that got both of them. I do think one was the bully that ran the little ones off all the them. Might help me round them up at night if it was the BIG BULLY.