Homesteading w/Hormones

Hello girls 😍😍😍

We have a new surprise (or 3 ish) this weekend so have to move birds the next few days. Also probably going to just go ahead and do mite tx at the same time. Have a new silkie pen I’ve been working on for a new color-gray! There’s so few breeders working on it so I’m working to learn the genetics as well. It’s making me want silver Ameraucana and welsummer too 👀

This is Jolene, our lone frizzle buff gal. My OCD wants to find her a new home bc she is the odd gal out but then I look at her and I’m like maybe I need a whole pen. 🤦‍♀️

It’s a Rainbow of Cockbirds

Some of the spare silkie boys doing their guy time in style.

Splash Cockbird over Black Gals should give us all blue babies 😍😍 Added our lone Showgirl to this group as well.

Well just as all the silkies started laying again we will be moving barns and therefore, pens in the next week. What this means is they will stop laying for 2 months again after said move IYKYK….so there’s a very good chance that the eggs in the incubator and hatching now will be all that is available for a bit again.

I’ve started test breeding my blacks to ensure everyone is actually black and not dark blue, blue cream for blue or lav gene, and a couple other odds n ends. These chicks who end up showing an undesirable color for future breeding-like blue carrying lav bc someone in the blacks is actually blue and why the splash boy is now going to work….will be offered as “pet” chicks which also includes wrong number of toes, etc.

Once the blue creams are all tested, they will be split into two diff pens-blue based and lav based and bred accordingly to same gene boys. My OG blue creams are most def/likely blue based and from some very nice lines but they aren’t the true breeding for the rest of the world for “isabel”/“blue cream” so I do want to keep them separate.

Also…this book is worth its weight in gold for trying to learn color genetics. Poultry is a lot more in depth than rabbits.

A huge Thank you to Semper Fi Fowl for these lovely foundation pieces in our white silkie pen.

Need this guide when I’m looking at that Blue Cream pen bc it’s a whole lotta rainbow instead of consistency.

Ameraucanas in Chocolate and Black. Will be splitting the pens to have a s*x linked pen and then a pure chocolate pen that will be straight run.

Chocolate Silkie Pen is all chocolate girls covered by either a chocolate or mauve c**k. During winter we combine but in the warmer temps each boy gets his own group.