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TN Lavender cuckoo project
HappyMtn:
One of my split hens is from Crystalcreek\'s Smith birds. She\'s a nice looking girl. The marans that I used to start this laid a nearly white egg and had clean shanks. I haven\'t had any feathered legs pop up yet, but a few single combs and clean faces. To be expected.
I am loving the look and temperment of these guys. Can\'t wait to see what kind of egg color we get. The f1 culls lay nice blue eggs, and the f2s should be laying this summer.
Yes- keep me posted on what you get to happen with the silkies. That was suggested to me, but I don\'t raise them.
jerryse:
a white silkie rooster is on my shopping list.None at the sale barn yet.A swap meet at Kankakee Il april 1 should have some if none show up by then.
dak:
--- Quote from: jerryse ---A harder feathered bird would get rid of the fluff.You would pickup the dark brown egg color {olive egger} but new hollands are said to lay white eggs with red ear lobes.This could elinimante the green eggs.Selection required but can be done.Result would be nice blue eggs in time.Some good blacks with good egg color and not much fluff would be quicker.I am thinking Paul Smith bred.Excellent show stock already.Less time,less feed,less pen space.I see some Smith line on ebay now.I think I may buy for this project.Straight from Paul would be best but these are eggs and will be less cost than chicks.No offense to Paul.Just making a cost drcision.
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I crossed my Shaffer Lav cock to my Smith hens last year. This year I have about bred the split x splits and hatched almost 100 chicks to get 20 Lavs. I am getting more Blacks from Paul this year to continue this process. In addition to being beautiful Blacks, the eggs size and color this year from the 2010 hens is great.
DaydreamsFarm:
Cool!!
HappyMtn:
I was really looking forward to diving back into this project. Got back from out of town to find 5 of my 6 girls in this pen all broody. Going to be a long summer!!!!!
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