09/02/2026
We’re back!!
Almost. 🫣
So physical we’re back; now it’s time to get the coops cleaned and birds moved into breeding pens so we can start our ‘26/‘27 breeding season.
I’ve had to make a few changes to my original plan of pens.
I will not have Russian Orloff available this year- unless I can find a new cockbird.
I do plan on having three Egger pens though. I was originally going to have two, but after looking at which birds were frizzles, I decided I needed to move frizzled hens to a dedicated frizzle pen since I plan on using a frizzled cockbird over the OE hens for our Turquoise Gem line. This will give me an opportunity to utilize one of the ermine Ameraucana that I didn’t use last year.
The OE pen will be homozygous blue layers with the Penedesenca cockbird. This has produced some amazing Olive Eggers in the past.
So, breeds I plan to have available this year:
Bielefelder
Salmon Faverolles
Mottled Houdan
Iowa Blue
Crele Penedesenca
Swedish Flower Hen
Tolbunt Polish
Chocolate Orpington
BBS Laced Silver Wyandotte
Turquoise Gem
Olive Egger (F1)
Frabjious Frizzle (blue Egger line)
I’m going to be offering sets of eggs this year as mixes too. These seem to be popular with a lot of other breeders as well. So there will be dozens in “ocean”, “rainbow”, “earth tones”, “hen’s choice”, “rare breeds”, “frizzles”, “exhibition breeds”, etc. I’ll have more info on these as the time comes.
I’m hoping to start setting eggs by mid September to start the hatching season in October. So I may have chicks available again starting October - this is completely reliant upon the hens and their laying.