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[Kaneke]

just got this month's (November 2011) Ladies Home Journal in the mail

page 60 .. Chick Lit .. by Jennifer Reese

excerpted from her book "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter"

I think we can all relate ...

 

[Hinotori]

WOW, Illia. Those are some beautiful birds. I rather like the little bit of poof to their heads. Such sweet things.

 

[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!!

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.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6232/6211386063_7149e1a65f_z.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6158/6211900310_eb0fe8435d_z.jpg

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)

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6051/6221505108_3072e02f35_z.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6157/6196667593_b7a17a2572_z.jpg

Oh Illia those are too cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Illia, a friend & I were pondering (and laughing like all get out) what a Dark Cornish over a white Silkie offspring would look like?
Wanna guess?
I have no idea which way it would go, the ideas are so hilarious!

 

[eenie114]

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I have a guess: Either really cool, or something that would give me nightmares.

 

[Chickielady]

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I have a guess: Either really cool, or something that would give me nightmares.

My guess too!
Black skin, weird pea comb, WIDE, SHORT, dark hard feathers here & there with puffs of white foof sticking out here & there.....blue comb + red comb+ a purple comb???????

 

[Illia]

Depends on the quality of both birds.


They'll range from hard to fluffy feathers, dark to semi-purplish pink skin and comb, but all will have a walnut-y type comb, they'll range from bull-doggy to Silkie in body type, but all should have feathered legs, a small crest, small tail, and 5 toes.



My Shamo x Sussex is so far still growing to be very Shamo-esque in type and definitely a boy. He'll mature to have a color like this:

 

[RustyHen]

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[Stumpfarmer]

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Awwwww

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Nope, he's a large fowl. I'll have a bantam pair available at the show...

Do ya have a pic and price??