Washingtonians

[Cowgirlgrace]

The only bantam eggs I have are Mille Fleur Cochins. The Black Mottled roo I want to use for type improvement has been molting and not breeding so don't have chicks or fertile eggs right now but I recently gave up on him for the time being and put the hens in with a MIlle/Mottled split roo and waiting for fertile eggs from him. If you are interested I can let you know when they are fertile. This Split roo will give you more Mille patterned birds. Chicks from the BM roo will all be Black Mottled but split.

I am supposed to be buying 10 chicks from a lady in Bonney Lake. I think she is getting them from someone named Terry, and I have questions about her birds.

My incubator is being delivered today, I might have to hit you up for eggs later, if I decide to breed.

Do you have bantams? I am in the market for bantam eggs. It's so hard to decide what kind. They are all so cute.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Do you have pictures of the eggs? Blue and white make a lighter Blue?

EGGS

Ok, so I got the color thing down pretty much, now, " 'splain it to me Lucy. . ."

". . . how come my Am crosses (not big birds) lay much bigger eggs than my Big girls do! I reckon I'm going to make some more of these crosses (Ams crossed with white egg layers make some pretty eggs) so the birds aren't big, don't scarf down all the feed and give me nice big eggs!

"Brilliant"

 

[Totalcolour]

Chickielady:

the persimmons wine is really delightful! I took the cap off yesterday - I thought of giving it to the chickens because it smelled so good. Then remembered it was alcoholic so I didn't think that was too good an idea. Don't want the chickens becoming alcoholics

So, the wine is at 16brix, and tastes really good, light and delicate. So, where did you get them, I can see this becoming a favourite

 

[Chicken Rustler]

CR I agree my father was a printer and he always told me white is the absence of color.

YEAH ! ! ! Your father knew his stuff. Really folks think about it. Go to the store and buy an ink pen with white ink. let me know how that works out for ya.

 

[Totalcolour]

Do you have pictures of the eggs? Blue and white make a lighter Blue?

These blue eggs are Am crosses - f1 (the top right greenish is an Orp/Am Roo on an Am hen). I don't have a pic of the pure Am egg (she hasn't started to lay since molt).

Aren't they a pretty pale blue?

 

[Totalcolour]

Quote: As a fine art painter, I have to tell ya that HITE is a colour - I use it all the time! (I even have white ink - I use it on black paper)

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

I was told that colors have pigment and white is the absence of pigment therefore not considered a color. But personally, I have always thought of white as a color. Just think of all the shades of 'white' available at the paint store!

As a fine art painter, I have to tell ya that HITE is a colour - I use it all the time! (I even have white ink - I use it on black paper)

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Very pretty! Some pure Ams lay that color so I would suspect you would need to use an AM that lays a nice blue to begin with when crossing with a white?

These blue eggs are Am crosses - f1 (the top right greenish is an Orp/Am Roo on an Am hen). I don't have a pic of the pure Am egg (she hasn't started to lay since molt).

Aren't they a pretty pale blue?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

[COLOR=FF0000]Yes, We are in Washington! Poor girl jumped off the roost and got stuck in mud.[/COLOR]

OK, now I'm not so embarrassed and horrified by the underfoot conditions in some parts of two runs. Nor, after watching the two stupid red EEs intentionally tip their water over twice yesterday, so horrified at my own personal incompetence in their housing. I now have two sets of two chickies with relatively clean, dry homes and two up to their asses in mud every morning. Strangely enough, the two good pens are silvers and the two bad ones are bright red. I need to figure out a secure water system, I guess.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

As a fine art painter, I have to tell ya that HITE is a colour - I use it all the time! (I even have white ink - I use it on black paper)

Well yes actually white is any color that has had bleach applied to make it look white.

And PINK is just RED GONE BAD ! ! ! !

That is the custom Flag I had made to fly on the sandrail

RED GONE BAD ! ! ! !