Wrath's Marans

[2ndTink]

Meh, maybe there's still that 'eww' factor like @NanaK said.

"Green eggs and Ham, anyone?"

I only have the 1 EE but she's not very consistent, still trying to collect enough to incubate. I gave 3 away before I decided to start collecting, have 3 collected but I'm pretty sure one is a double yolker.

And now she been on a 3-4 day break so far.

This will be a curiosity test as last year I set 5 eggs under Momma the broody Marans and hatched out 3 boys.

I have 4 EE from Mt Healthy, 3 years old this year and I always get at least 2 eggs a day still, typically 3 or 4. They've been great layers. I had an oops rooster in that group I bought so I bred him to my awesome 4 yr old BAs and BRs this spring who are still laying very consistently and I have 5 or 6 pullets (Mable, Norma Mae, the teal band, orange band, no band, and blue with cheekies) yep, 6 girls, of that cross so I'm really excited to see how well they lay + what colors! I'm not sure if the rooster was homozygous blue egg or heterozygous. The BRs lay a light to medium brown egg and those BAs lay a very slightly tinted egg, so I could get some pale blue or pastel minty green eggs!

I was selling eggs to a couple previously and they didn't want any green eggs

I like curiosity tests!

 

[2ndTink]

Oh and now I have another broody. Copper has been sitting for 3 days now.

I had 1 per year for the last 2 years. And I'm at 4 now this year.
All Marans.

I'd had 1 or 2 per year, Black Astraulorps, go broody. But now with the silkies so many broodies! I'm not doing any natural hatching soits been a job trying to break those ladies.

 

[wrathsfarm]

I'd had 1 or 2 per year, Black Astraulorps, go broody. But now with the silkies so many broodies! I'm not doing any natural hatching soits been a job trying to break those ladies.

No one's gone broody in the mixed flock. My main BA acted like she wanted but can't get her to commit. I have been collecting a few of her eggs just because she's so sweet and docile. The wife has been wanting me to hatch a few of her eggs. (BCM x BA)

Check this Silkie mix out, looks to be AC x Silkie. I love fibros so this one caught my eye..Super pretty guy/gal.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/roo-or-pullets.1631151/#post-27851841

 

[The Coop Crew]

This thread gave me a good laugh this morning

 

[wrathsfarm]

I have 4 EE from Mt Healthy, 3 years old this year and I always get at least 2 eggs a day still, typically 3 or 4. They've been great layers. I had an oops rooster in that group I bought so I bred him to my awesome 4 yr old BAs and BRs this spring who are still laying very consistently and I have 5 or 6 pullets (Mable, Norma Mae, the teal band, orange band, no band, and blue with cheekies) yep, 6 girls, of that cross so I'm really excited to see how well they lay + what colors! I'm not sure if the rooster was homozygous blue egg or heterozygous. The BRs lay a light to medium brown egg and those BAs lay a very slightly tinted egg, so I could get some pale blue or pastel minty green eggs!

I was selling eggs to a couple previously and they didn't want any green eggs

I like curiosity tests!

I haven't figured out if my only EE is blue gene yet because she threw the afore mentioned 'all boys'.
So there's another curiosity in the mix.

 

[wrathsfarm]

And just in case I wasn't completely clear...

When I mentioned Copper being broody, that was 'Code' for "I need more of these"...

 

[2ndTink]

No one's gone broody in the mixed flock. My main BA acted like she wanted but can't get her to commit. I have been collecting a few of her eggs just because she's so sweet and docile. The wife has been wanting me to hatch a few of her eggs. (BCM x BA)

Check this Silkie mix out, looks to be AC x Silkie. I love fibros so this one caught my eye..Super pretty guy/gal.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/roo-or-pullets.1631151/#post-27851841

Neat mixes! Edited to fix from "meat mixes"

Here's a satin X probably BA cross. He's pretty neat looking. He's a wanna-be BCM

 

[The Coop Crew]

And just in case I wasn't completely clear...

When I mentioned Copper being broody, that was 'Code' for "I need more of these"... View attachment 3878515

Chick fever

 

[NanaK]

I think somethings in the air concerning broodies.

I have a 10 yr old Cream Legbar who has never been broody in her life.
She has been in broody jail for 4 days. She is a determined bugger.
I think she is starting to reconsider finally.

I didn't want her to sit because of our heat and her age.

Who would have thought a hen would go broody for the first time so late in life.

Meet Miss Dot.

 

[2ndTink]

I haven't figured out if my only EE is blue gene yet because she threw the afore mentioned 'all boys'.
So there's another curiosity in the mix.

Ameraucana based EEs typically have the blue egg gene linked to the pea comb, so if that's what your EE is and you got chicks with pea combs 50% or 100% would indicate whether she has 1 or 2 blue egg genes.