Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Hinotori]

Now that you mention it I am assuming it is a hen because there have been three different colored eggs lol. Ive never seen one come out of her but she spends lots of time in there sitting. I always wondered about her though because her personality is so different than the other two. Just my luck if it was a rooster after all this time though lol .

Post a good picture if you're not totally sure.

 

[bwauck]

 

[Hinotori]

Yup, that's a hen. She's plotting.

Other than isolation I'm not sure what you should do. My mom says they need chicken sized shock collars

 

[Duck Drover]

Do they all have the Blue gene? 

The rooster of the silver hen was supposed to be splash so that would explain the blue in her chicks. The other hen is a basic red hatchery Ameraucana (Easter Egger) so I don't know if she has any blue genetics, although there is beautiful blue feathering in the pullets. The Quechua rooster is mostly red so I don't think he has any blue in him. The majority of his sons have his coloring except the multi-colored cockerel. These are mixed breed offspring from hens that are not purebred so who knows what genetics are involved in the chicks we hatched.

I am going for blue egg layers with beards, muffs, pea combs, and slate legs that resemble the original hatchery birds in the '70s and '80s as much as possible. As long as these pullets are blue egg layers it will be worth hatching them as layers but I am hoping to get a nice type and color as well. I don't know if I can continue the project past 1st generation since they changed the codes here (our adults are grandfathered but we can't keep replacements). I will need to have the means to move in order to continue the project beyond the trio I am using now.

 

[Duck Drover]

This is what the chicks looked like at hatching.

 

[bwauck]

I used to squirt her with a squirt gun in the summer when she got bossy. It worked btw. Now i doubt that it would phase her. Ìt looks like i'll be posting an ad at the feed store. Although shes quite tame she has always had an wildish glint in her eye

 

[Hinotori]

This is what the chicks looked like at hatching so they did not hatch out with any blue.

When I hatched two eggs from a partridge rooster over a splash hen, the chicks were chipmunk and feathered in blue with leakage. I had a cockerel out of the hen from this crossed back to partridge. That cockerel looked like all the others except he was blue partridge. I couldn't really tell at hatch.

 

[Duck Drover]

When I hatched two eggs from a partridge rooster over a splash hen, the chicks were chipmunk and feathered in blue with leakage. I had a cockerel out of the hen from this crossed back to partridge. That cockerel looked like all the others except he was blue partridge. I couldn't really tell at hatch.

I am not great at color genetics, which is why I only have BBS in my other breeds, lol. These are basically mutt chickens so it is a grab bag of surprises but it seems enough people like mutts, as long as they lay pretty eggs, so I figured I would give breeding them a try. I think they are beautiful so at least I can now see how the chicks will develop and eventually know if they will be blue egg layers. If they are desirable I will make more but if not this will be the end of the project. I am not impressed with the red roosters but they are disposable so as long as I can take them to the auction for meat they don't all have to look as nice as the multi-colored rooster. I am also interested in breeding the Quechua to the Orpingtons to see what we get but I think we have just been eating those eggs instead of hatching them due to my injury and surgery. I need to hatch some winter chicks just to get back into hatching again.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hi there wow went out to dinner missed all the fun

 

[Leigti]

Spent the day processing meat rabbits. Got 6 out of 10 done before it started raining again.

I feed my dog and cat raw diet. They absolutely love rabbit but it's really hard to find here and when I find it it's very expensive. Considering rabbit is so lean I wonder why it's not more available.