Gorgeous Colors

We have had an amazingly colorful fall that just seems to go on and on......

The Pirate Egg Projects are on track.  The challenge now is sorting out which pullet is laying which egg and then making decisions as to which birds to carry forward into the 2014 breeding programs.

Chocolate anyone? We've had a bit of confusion over how chocolate genes (both dun and sex-linked!) have infiltrated different project lineages and what to do about it.  I can't say I'm hating the look but I am having to do some test hatching to figure out what the heck we've actually got going on.

I've decided this is actually Zerya's first egg!

Zorie lays long thin blue eggs;
 ZERYA lays the olive eggs.

Zelda's eggs look just like her mother Orchid's;
alas...not shiny but definitely white pores on a pastel mint shell.

The rumpless girls have identical blue eggs.
Love the shine!

   

These are just some of my favorite pictures from this fall.  There are many more on the pinterest account.

Chicken Breeds Resource

I found this website with short video clips of different breeds of chickens (and ducks, guineas, etc...).  The videos I was looking at appeared to have been taken at a poultry show in Europe so the animals are very nice representatives of the breed.  It was helpful for me because I could see how the animal actually moves - much different than looking at a two-dimensional representation.  Enjoy!

http://www.mypets.egzoticpheasant.com/browse-chickens-videos-1-date.html

When in Doubt, Change Your Tune

I'm much more successful at finding information South American chickens online when I change my browser language settings from English to Spanish.  (We won't talk about how long that took me to figure out!)

How to Change Your Settings in Google Chrome

Since it took me two years to discover this trick I'm going to break it way down so that when I forget it won't take me another two years to remember. :)

Step 1 Click on the Chrome Settings icon in your browser toolbar

Step 2 Scroll down to the Languages section and click on "Language and input settings"

Step 3 Click on "Add"

 Step 4 Scroll down to "Spanish - Latin America"

Step 5 "Spanish - Latin America" and "Spanish" will get added to your list of languages. You have to drag them to the top for the search engine to prioritize sites written in Spanish.

Step 6 Click "Done" in the lower right corner and close the settings window.