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[Chickielady]

here I am trying to catch up and have the entire thread to myself~
Pitterpatter::: the 2 names you picked out sound perfect!
T-Hi::: anyone working with kids in any form, has my admiration !!!

and I hope that someone takes pics at this first ever bird swap!
We had 2 thick silver salmon steaks on cedar plank last night, man oh man oh man oh man is that the best ever ?!?!
We get cedar fence boards at Home Depot, and cut in about 1 to 1 1/2 foot long, and stack under the gas grill, then soak for 5-6 hours in 5 gallon bucket hold the cedar board under the water with a clean rock or brick.
When ready, pull the plank out, lay on grill, lay fish on top of plank, garnish with fresh dill or whatever, and cover loosely with tin foil...the cedar smoke is perfect with the salmon, and this works great on a slow wood or charcoal fire as well.
You can also cook any fish this way...it is a very gentle smokey but very moist-poach and is met in your mouth.
I was going to take pictures before we ate but figured you would all hate me forever !
*************Illia:****************** The 2 Blue Ameraucana cockerals sprouting gold hackle (remember ?)

Remember you mentioned how dark they are ?
Well, found out they are related to Duke, they are brothers, they are half Blue Am, and half BCM...some are bluish more than others so I had then in with the blue Ams....

So, my wonderful hatch of 12 OEs and only one roo was really 3 roos

That is still pretty good...
Funny these 2 birds are full brothers !

Figured out the mystery of the gold hackle (and feathered shanks)

 

[Illia]

That's good.

As for me, my Olive Eggers began hatching 3 days ago with 1 Araucana x Marans. Then 2 days ago I got a pure Ameraucana, a pure BC Marans, and a Brahma x Ameraucana. Well, just yesterday mommy squashed and killed the Marans, so I took the babies from her. Today, with the remaining eggs under a different broody, I've got one more egg that hatched. So far it looks to be a pure Marans.

Still waiting on two Wyandotte x Ameraucana and a pure Araucana egg. Sooo excited for them, hope my Wyandotte crosses will be blue. Because so far everyone else is either black or black copper.

 

[Chickielady]

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I have Cheryl's 2 mature white wyandotte hens in with my blue Copper man, Roscoe.
Roscoe is only 6 months old so he is just figureing this whole thing out...and the wyandotte girls will not let him mount up, but chase him around.

There has been some squabbling in there lately, as I think he is learning he has to be a little more manly with the old girls.
Cheryl has said they have never been around a real mature gent...so they are learning !
So, may have some wyandotte X blue copper eggs yet.
May come out blue splash ?

And so sorry your babies were smashed !!!

 

[Illia]

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No - black (wyandotte) and blue (blue copper) just make blue and black, no splash. You'd need two blues or a blue and a splash for that.

What you will expect, though, are solid white, blue, or black birds with a tiny bit of leakage. If White Wyandottes are recessive, expect just blue and black coppers. If it is dominant, expect 100% whites.

 

[Chickielady]

I wish I had your color genetice book.
I was toying with the idea of breeding golden cuckoo ===with the silver cuckoo hens, and blue copper marans roo for the first generation, then breed back the "impure" gold-silver cockerals to some blue marans hens...and et cetera, instead of using BCM I would be using BlCopper marans.
What do you think that would do to the outcome ?
I was hoping for a golden cuckoo with blue barring, not black...what do you think ?

I better go get some work done...

 

[Chickielady]

where in tarnation is everyone ???
It is getting hard to even find this thread and usually we are on top !!!
Geeeze !!
Did everyone go to the swap but Pitterpatter and myself ?
I am going on to search for and buy a color genetics book~~~~
Got the second half of coop #4 done today...will be putting the OEs in tomorrow, and the brooder, and incubators all cleaned and bleach sprayed and going back in a empty baby coop~ ready for next year....and the grass in the baby pen will grow back now.

 

[TrystInn]

Nope, I couldn't make it - something is wrong with my left eye and I'm not really safe to drive with only the right one working right. Likely just allergies, but its really driving me bonkers.

Let's see - we're still waiting on our egg order from September, been hot down South and the ladies aren't laying well. Our new Banties (our first!) have settled in well and are having a ball figuring everything out. They've already nabbed their own perch on the right side of the coop, how exactly those tiny little things are getting up there I've really no idea.

We've got a Cochin hen brooding on a nest of hay. I'd hoped to give her some of the eggs, then put the rest in our new incubator. May go ahead and order some Bantam Cochin eggs for her if I don't hear something very soon about our other order. *crosses fingers*

We sold our Cochin/Rhodie chicks (avatar pic) on Saturday. We sure do miss them around here. Scarlett hasn't forgiven me and refuses to sing. She's moping in the coop next to her sister, Ruby, who went into molt after her unsuccessful brooding on a nest of duds. Well, misery loves company. I'm going to give them a rare treat tomorrow - spaghetti! See if I can bribe my way back into their good graces.

We're still fighting the tree roosters. Poor hubby keeps sawing down branches, but somehow they keep getting up there. I want them tucked safe and sound in the coop and I want it to happen SOONEST. Brats.

 

[Illia]

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Blue Copper x Silver Cuckoo hen will give sex-linked blue and black. The boys will be barred, girls will be blue or black.

From there, your closest thing to do is breed the offspring to each other. . . And that will give a huge hodge-podge, but with a small percent of them being a golden cuckoo.

I'll be honest with you - You'd have to do some BIG orders on the second generation, because you'll need a good chance of winding up with that golden cuckoo coloring.

I believe it will take 5 generations to have them breed true, but the second gen is when the color will first pop up.

 

[Chickielady]

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[Chickielady]

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Blue Copper x Silver Cuckoo hen will give sex-linked blue and black. The boys will be barred, girls will be blue or black.

From there, your closest thing to do is breed the offspring to each other. . . And that will give a huge hodge-podge, but with a small percent of them being a golden cuckoo.

I'll be honest with you - You'd have to do some BIG orders on the second generation, because you'll need a good chance of winding up with that golden cuckoo coloring.

I believe it will take 5 generations to have them breed true, but the second gen is when the color will first pop up.

yup, that is the deal, 4 or 5 generations...