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Post by talltimber on Jun 24, 2019 20:02:05 GMT -6
I don't have any of those.
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Post by okie on Jun 24, 2019 20:56:02 GMT -6
I have chickens. Did you know that a splash rooster crossed on a homozygous black hen produces blue chickens every time? If you add in lacing genes, which are separate from color genes you can make some neat looking chickens.
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Post by talltimber on Jun 26, 2019 13:39:47 GMT -6
I saw some a while back I thought were cool. Blue laced wyndot or something like that. Pretty birds
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Post by hughespieds on Jun 26, 2019 13:48:30 GMT -6
I raised the silver laced and golden laced Wyandottes for a number of years. I know there was blue laced red Wyandottes which I never did.
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Post by okie on Jun 26, 2019 14:05:16 GMT -6
The blue laced red wyandottes are nice birds. It's been a while since I've had any, though. I have some of the silver laced now that are running around with a splash orphington rooster along with some black australorp hens. I tried to hatch a dozen eggs and wound up with exactly one healthy chick so I let it go. I have a broody sitting on eggs now so all is not lost.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jun 28, 2019 19:02:11 GMT -6
The wife and daughter are chicken people. They have a few of the blue laced red wyndottes and a couple of wellsummer barredrock crosses. I will say them chickens sure are fun to watch when one of them finds a good worm.
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Post by ebenezer on Jul 6, 2019 6:21:29 GMT -6
We have Dominique chickens based on the oldest line in the USA and also have St. Croix Hair sheep. Chickens are a hobby at best but a great place to learn the problems and high points of lines and linebreeding. The sheep are an interesting part of the farm with selection pressure for improvements but not to the terminal type of many breeds. It is currently a closed flock and multi-generational selection for a number of things but especially zero-worming.
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Post by hook on Jul 6, 2019 6:27:58 GMT -6
I meed to set up a proper chicken pen, but eggs are so cheap
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Post by okie on Jul 6, 2019 7:08:56 GMT -6
We have Dominique chickens based on the oldest line in the USA and also have St. Croix Hair sheep. Chickens are a hobby at best but a great place to learn the problems and high points of lines and linebreeding. The sheep are an interesting part of the farm with selection pressure for improvements but not to the terminal type of many breeds. It is currently a closed flock and multi-generational selection for a number of things but especially zero-worming. I had St. Croix for a while in California. They were the remnants of a registered flock. I never registered any of them as I couldn't find a ram anywhere without driving out of state so I crossed them with dorper rams and did fairly well with them. There is a flock very near to me here in Oklahoma. I AI two or three milk cows for the owner and they keep wanting to give me a few sheep as payment as I don't charge them so who knows, I might wind up with a few more at some point. |
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Post by franklinridgefarms on Jul 8, 2019 13:16:37 GMT -6
Have had a few of all those at times. Had 60 ewes a few years ago, mostly Suffolk, and some Dorsetts and crosses of the two. Coyotes put me out of the sheep and goat ventures though. Really thinking about feeding out a couple meat hogs at some point. and probably next spring get a few chickens again.
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Post by greybeard on Jul 9, 2019 5:59:27 GMT -6
I had a pair of big fluffy white geese once and kinda liked watching them, till they figured out where the feed was coming from and shiited all over the back porch every morning...
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Post by haase on Feb 23, 2020 20:15:45 GMT -6
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