The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[lalaland]

I knew I remembered that someone else on here raised superblue layers but couldn't remember. Are they old enough to lay yet and if so, are the eggs blue? I hatched 6, 2 were roo's, I sold 3 and kept 1. AND, she lays a white medium egg. lol

too young to lay yet, and I know I was so disappointed when you posted earlier that she lays white eggs! But, I have a 4 year old ee that lays blue, and I am expecting blue from the cream legbar pullet. Plus two araucana's when they lay, maybe blue?
I can't wait til they start laying to see if it helps me feel more confident about some of the breeds.

 

[lalaland]

ok, this is the pullet that I was h oping was the choc maran that supposedly was in the chicks I got, but someone who raises 30 breeds!!!! says it is an icelandic too!



sorry, not great pics. she has a little crest, and is extremely skittish.

 

[Pozees]

lalaland, I'm almost sure that's a Cream Legbar pullet.

 

[uglychickens]

They don't seem to be biting me just crawling on me. I looked up mites & there is a plant mite A friend said their "bird mites" from the sparrows that are roosting n our barn eaves but they don't seem to be biting me. I'm in the process of washing all the clothes that came in contact & vacuuming
I know they didn't come from the baled hay. I throw hay to the sheep & it was hay that had been on the ground for a while that they seemed to be in.

If there red mites they could be concrete mites... They got their name from how visible they are on concrete not that they live there... They mostly live on the ground but I have no idea if they suck blood or not

 

[delisha]

Quote: I would like to have that information please.

Quote: Because they are F1 a part of them will lay blue, the rest will lay white. You need to cull the white egg layers and breed the son of a super blue ..blue egg layer to the F1's that lay a blue egg.
Keep doing this till they bred true and all blue eggs.

Quote: http://www.rarebreedauctions.com/au...otte-foleys-exhibition-line&auction_id=113975
(Just to let you know he usually auctions off birds..but wanting a good roo..he probably has a few)

http://www.foleyswaterfowl.com/blrwyandotte.htm

I also have a few BLRW males for sale ..they are black laced and beautiful.










He has a beautiful tent..it looks wry, but he was stepping off the table.

ok, this is the pullet that I was h oping was the choc maran that supposedly was in the chicks I got, but someone who raises 30 breeds!!!! says it is an icelandic too!



sorry, not great pics. she has a little crest, and is extremely skittish.

Cream legbar

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Thanks for the links. I will look into them.

 

[camilleathome]

Just how it should be.

I love this sign. I may just make my own with that saying.

I want one!

 

[armorfirelady]

we're getting ready to finish fencing at least part of our yad to try and keep the fox out. Do you guys think that 3/4 acre is going to be enough free range for 8 birds that they won't need supplemental feed, or do you think that I'll have to feed them some once we get the fence up?

I have 2-100ft pieces of electric netting that my 8 hens happily roam in. Lots of different kinds of clover, grass & weeds for them to eat in addition to lots of bugs. Their crops are pretty full just from them foraging and I only feed once at night. And they tend to have a little FF left in the bottom. They big girls tend to head back out into the yard for some bug chasing.

all these turkey stories make me want to try them out. maybe next year! I have so many wild turkeys not sure how it would go.

I have been looking at icelandics, since aoxa told me I have icelandic roosters. well, they come in so many colors and combs and patterns! It makes me wonder if mrs murphy, whom I thought might be a bantam, is really an icelandic. and supposedly I got a choc maran, but the pullet looks like an icelandic too.
geesh. this is driving me crazy.

I can imagine it might drive you crazy but they sure are pretty regardless what they are

Quote:
*sigh* I feel bad now. I could send you some Edie eggs Maybe if George sat on the they would get fertilized?

 

[armorfirelady]

Quote: Me 3 !!

 

[nicole63021]

..Sometimes you never get there..

The BLRW foley line has been worked on for 12 years. It is now breeding true in his lines..Everyone else probably has F2's or 3's. Most people do not breed and cull. They get a male and a female and bred it and call it a pure bred when it most likely came from a hatchery or feed store. They are representatives of the breed and not true.

Foley BLRW

Hatchery

I am sure most notice the color..the color is not the problem. That can be fixed in F3 if the proper bird is used in F1 and F2.

The hatchery bird doesn't have the nice round shape of the Foley, and the topline looks off. What else? Really trying to get better about seeing what I should in a good bird. These are a breed we really want to work with, and are getting our first chicks of this variety soon. Thank you!