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[Illia]

Oh sweet!


Just gotta share my excitement, I've been breeding sky-blue egg laying Easter Eggers for several months now, but haven't gotten any frizzles yet from my frizzled Polish boy, (mainly because I just barely decided to use him) and finally a chick today confirmed with further feather growth that it is in fact a frizzle.


Here's hoping for a girl!

 

[Chickielady]

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I know! LOL DH had to slip that one in there.

I bet you just lost it when you saw it!!!!!!
How perfectly awesome!!!!!!!!!
And not one chicken or goose in all the shots!!!

Lovely pics, awesome wedding..too cool!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Oh you are something..
Let me get this straight, sky-blue egg laying EEs...bred to a frizzled polish?
What do you think you will get?????????

I guess they will continue to lay blue eggs as the polish lays white..but what will the bird look like?

How fun!
Edited to add: You must keep us updated on this project!!

 

[hallerlake]

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A frizzle easter egger? Cool.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I know! LOL DH had to slip that one in there.

I bet you just lost it when you saw it!!!!!!
How perfectly awesome!!!!!!!!!
And not one chicken or goose in all the shots!!!

Lovely pics, awesome wedding..too cool!!!!!

Yes, I did...and I do every time I watch it....my coop is in one shot.

 

[Illia]

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Oh you are something..
Let me get this straight, sky-blue egg laying EEs...bred to a frizzled polish?
What do you think you will get?????????

I guess they will continue to lay blue eggs as the polish lays white..but what will the bird look like?

How fun!
Edited to add: You must keep us updated on this project!!

I've been doing it for a while. This here is an adult smooth version. She's half Ameraucana (my darkest and richest blue layers) half Polish.
The white from the Polish keeps the blue color, but only lightens it a little. She lays normal good blue eggs, since her mother lays blue eggs darker than norm.

My frizzled chick will look exactly like her but frizzled, however many of my EE's vary. Some have more spangling than lacing, more single than double lacing, more black than gold or more gold than black.

All of them are very sweet, the size of a normal Ameraucana or Easter Egger, and extremely good foragers. They're all just F1's though and not my true goal. But in the mean time, I'm seriously loving having a frizzled one. I'm not in the second generation yet but almost about to incubate some eggs for F2's.

Here's just one example of a smooth male version: (still very young and not fully filled out)

 

[herbandteas]

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That was so sweet and I was crying thru the whole thing! He is a keeper!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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That was so sweet and I was crying thru the whole thing! He is a keeper!

Thank you! He's going to add to it every couple of months...until she graduates high school.

 

[hallerlake]

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That was so sweet and I was crying thru the whole thing! He is a keeper!

Thank you! He's going to add to it every couple of months...until she graduates high school.

What a great idea!

 

[Kaneke]

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wow -- rather similar to my grandmother's Maine clam chowder

in a wide saucepan:
fry diced bacon until cooked but not crisp
remove the bacon aside, leaving the bacon fat in the saucepan
add sliced/diced onion , cook in the bacon fat until just transparent, then dump the cooked bacon back in
add peeled cubed potatoes, drain the canned clams' juice into the pan
add enough water JUST to cover the potatoes, and simmer until they start to become soft

(if you are using fresh clams rather than canned; you have to cook the clams separately)

then dump the clams in, add pepper to taste, add just a dollop of milk, and a pat of butter to the top
heat until clams are warmed through, taste and add salt as necessary

no tomatoes, no thickening, it's a translucent soup rather than a thick pasty one

if you want to go "gourmet", add just a dash of sherry to each bowl and grind more fresh pepper on top