The Old Folks Home

[AK Baha]

My broker called with an update; my offer has been discussed with the sellers, but they are in transit somewhere and won't have the actual paperwork to review until tomorrow. They did say there is a Perc Test (viability for septic) report for the property, plus a topography map with boundaries clearly marked. Y'see, all that PVC pipe running up hill and down dale was for a "Christmas Tree Farm" originally planned but which didn't get off the ground. Err, into the ground, I guess.

Uh huh.

My broker said I should steel myself for a counter offer, possibly Monday evening. My contractor friend said to compile a list of the necessary work on the cabin and shed he discovered as well as an articulate summary of "how much usable land is really available.". (To counter any possible "Repairs? You're really just buying land" argument.)

It's all good, thus far.

Very nice. Hope all goes well.

 

[drumstick diva]

Linda tell them they have to get rid of any and all poisonous snakes . If you are all secluded up there - who ya gonna call????

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Well, looking at that egg, I'd say that not ALL things this week are crap, that is very nice! Did you keep a solid black or black with red in her neck and feathered leggs? That looks like a full BCM to me! I thought the only one you kept was the little EE looking pullet. That egg is a surprise! I was really expecting a green egg.......

You're right, not EVERYTHING was crap but losing my duck-chicken to a fox, losing Hoppy, and other issues just made it feel like it was over the edge crappy.

I thought all I had kept was one EE looking chick, so it's possible she laid that... it's also possible that I kept another dark colored one and I can't tell her apart from the other dark hens I have. I do have a lot of dark/black hens.

 

[Wisher1000]

I will be shocked if that EE laid that egg! That would be so cool if she got her looks from her EE dad and her egg color from her BCM mom! Well........... I guess it could have been her looks from her EE mom and her egg color from her BCM dad.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

dw=dishwasher...DW=dear wife?....Hook-ups.....islands .....I thought this was a chicken forum!

 

[dsqard]

I will be shocked if that EE laid that egg! That would be so cool if she got her looks from her EE dad and her egg color from her BCM mom! Well........... I guess it could have been her looks from her EE mom and her egg color from her BCM dad.

Remember Wisher, it is quite possible to have an EE lay a brown egg if she didn't pick up the blue egg gene from her mother. An EE will only carry one blue egg gene and one brown egg gene and that is why they lay green eggs and not blue (from my little bit of egg genetics knowledge). So if daddy is a pure BCM (only brown egg genes) and mom is an EE, it is possible that mom only "threw" her brown egg gene and not the blue gene, hence the brown eggs. Make sense?
BTW, SCG that is a gorgeous egg. If she keeps laying eggs like that, I think you should blow them for your Christmas ornament projects. I really hope Caramel gets better quick.

 

[Bunnylady]

Remember Wisher, it is quite possible to have an EE lay a brown egg if she didn't pick up the blue egg gene from her mother. An EE will only carry one blue egg gene and one brown egg gene and that is why they lay green eggs and not blue (from my little bit of egg genetics knowledge). So if daddy is a pure BCM (only brown egg genes) and mom is an EE, it is possible that mom only "threw" her brown egg gene and not the blue gene, hence the brown eggs. Make sense?
BTW, SCG that is a gorgeous egg. If she keeps laying eggs like that, I think you should blow them for your Christmas ornament projects. I really hope Caramel gets better quick.

I may have this wrong, but it was my impression that brown and blue are found in two entirely different locations within the chicken's genetic make-up. You have a choice of 'blue' or 'not blue' at one locus, and 'brown' or 'not brown' somewhere else. You could have a chicken with two blue alleles and two brown alleles; the offspring of such chickens would always lay green eggs (blue and brown are both dominant traits, right?) If you are working with a first generation EE, and know that the "other" parent was a non-blue egg layer, you could be sure that the bird only has one blue egg allele. Otherwise, you couldn't be sure whether they had one blue egg allele or two - unless you had EE's like I had one time. Every egg they laid was brown, because though they had all of the other characteristics, this particular flock had "lost" the blue-egg allele!

Dsqard is right, you can have birds that look exactly like everyone expects EE's to look, that lay brown eggs.

 

[Arielle]

dw=dishwasher...DW=dear wife?....Hook-ups.....islands .....I thought this was a chicken forum!

Not too many subjects off limits with this crew!! However, we all have chickens!!

 

[ronott1]

Not too many subjects off limits with this crew!! However, we all have chickens!!

Wisher1000 is a Police person though.....

 

[ozexpat]

dw=dishwasher...DW=dear wife?....Hook-ups.....islands .....I thought this was a chicken forum!

Not too many subjects off limits with this crew!! However, we all have chickens!!

I have one of each

The hook-ups are few and far between though