blue egg silkie: its here

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 7:34 pm

baronrenfrew wrote:QR_BBPOST Blue egg silkie: yep its a legit project. So a poultry friend, Trevor, is working on it. Ameraucana x silkie created a hen that laid a "bigger than silkie" egg and a decent blue but feathering was not good "silkie type". So these hens were bred back to a silkie roo and they have 20 young pullets (Trevor is a butcher so young cockerals are quickly turned into kebabs) that are silkie feathered (i didn't ask if he was shooting for a specific feather colour) and these will be evaluated for blue egg (they should lay in sept) before further breeding or being sold. So bug me in autumn or ask Trevor yourself as he and Lisa run the Renfrew Buy/Sell/Trade events. Oh, and Lisa deserves equal credit for this project (knowing women: she probably deserves more of the credit). I got the full story of this project today.

So the next generation of silkies has 9 pullets: 1 laying pink eggs, 7 lay blue eggs, and 1 a white egg. They are otherwise silkies for look, size, and shape, (i still didn't ask about a feather colour) so Poultryprincess, stay tuned for when and where something is for sale.

Flat Rock Farm · Post by **Flat Rock Farm** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 8:12 pm

How neat!! I think I would be interested too

JimW · Post by **JimW** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 8:26 pm

That sounds cool, I love blue eggs, no silkies for me though. lol

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:43 am

Yeah love those blue eggs!

Post by **Killerbunny** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:04 am

JimW wrote:QR_BBPOST That sounds cool, I love blue eggs, no silkies for me though. lol

Poultryprincess · Post by **Poultryprincess** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 10:55 pm

baronrenfrew wrote:QR_BBPOST
baronrenfrew wrote:QR_BBPOST Blue egg silkie: yep its a legit project. So a poultry friend, Trevor, is working on it. Ameraucana x silkie created a hen that laid a "bigger than silkie" egg and a decent blue but feathering was not good "silkie type". So these hens were bred back to a silkie roo and they have 20 young pullets (Trevor is a butcher so young cockerals are quickly turned into kebabs) that are silkie feathered (i didn't ask if he was shooting for a specific feather colour) and these will be evaluated for blue egg (they should lay in sept) before further breeding or being sold. So bug me in autumn or ask Trevor yourself as he and Lisa run the Renfrew Buy/Sell/Trade events. Oh, and Lisa deserves equal credit for this project (knowing women: she probably deserves more of the credit). I got the full story of this project today.
So the next generation of silkies has 9 pullets: 1 laying pink eggs, 7 lay blue eggs, and 1 a white egg. They are otherwise silkies for look, size, and shape, (i still didn't ask about a feather colour) so Poultryprincess, stay tuned for when and where something is for sale.

I'm watching you.....& I'm veri Interested....& I am Excited by the progress!!!!
( don't care about the feather color, but also interested in Pink eggs ~ just sayin'

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Brebis · Post by **Brebis** » Tue Oct 18, 2016 8:47 am

Now if you could get the hens to lay blue eggs that hatched males and pink eggs that hatched females you'd be made!