Silverudd's Blue

[FoodFreedomNow]

Such cute little chicks!!
This seems to be a very slow thread lol hopefully there will be a few more reply’s. How long have you raised SB for??

Thanks! I hope the thread picks up, too...such a wonderful and lovely breed. And great cold weather layers!

I hatched my first SB last spring, so not long. I'd raised other breeds before, but those gorgeous eggs...I had to have some! lol

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

One of my roos - I ended up with four, but was able to rehome two (whew).

 

[chickenpolo]

One of my roos - I ended up with four, but was able to rehome two (whew).[/QUOTE]
Nice, I only have 6 blue and splash babies that are just about 4 weeks. I think I might have 4 Roos and 2 pullets, hopefully I’m wrong and I have a few more pullets! I’m loving them so far, can’t wait to see how they grow up.

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

One of my roos - I ended up with four, but was able to rehome two (whew).

Nice, I only have 6 blue and splash babies that are just about 4 weeks. I think I might have 4 Roos and 2 pullets, hopefully I’m wrong and I have a few more pullets! I’m loving them so far, can’t wait to see how they grow up.[/QUOTE]
I hope you have more pullets, too! I actually ended up with 4 boys and 3 girls in my hatch. Enjoy them while they're little - they grow so fast.

 

[ev-chicka]

Hi, all! Glad to see that this thread is still active.

I recently hatched a blue SB (sounds redundant, doesn't it?) from my own stock, as well as an SBxBCM --> it's a big deal for me because I just kept hatching blacks, even with blue roos over black hens.

The SB is on the left, OE/cross (also blue) on the right for comparison.


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Cute! I have my first SB this summer (2 blue pullets 1 blue roo). I am excited to hatch out my own cross with BCM and possibly Legbars this spring! The blues are so beautiful, but I love the heartiness I’ve found with crosses. Here’s my boy Rae and pullet Moon.

Does anyone have pics of their SB eggs? Excited to see what mine are like!

 

[chickenpolo]

Cute! I have my first SB this summer (2 blue pullets 1 blue roo). I am excited to hatch out my own cross with BCM and possibly Legbars this spring! The blues are so beautiful, but I love the heartiness I’ve found with crosses. Here’s my boy Rae and pullet Moon.

Does anyone have pics of their SB eggs? Excited to see what mine are like!

I just hatched 6 SB a few weeks ago, so I have a long time to wait to get my own eggs lol but here is a pic of the eggs mine hatched from- they are in the middle carton( they were prettier in person)they are second import birds. The other 2 cartons have BLACK COPPER MARANS, (with a couple cream legbar and welsommer eggs mixed in)and Bielefelder eggs

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

Cute! I have my first SB this summer (2 blue pullets 1 blue roo). I am excited to hatch out my own cross with BCM and possibly Legbars this spring! The blues are so beautiful, but I love the heartiness I’ve found with crosses. Here’s my boy Rae and pullet Moon.

Does anyone have pics of their SB eggs? Excited to see what mine are like!

Congrats!! Looks like you're off to a good start. I recently hatched SB/BCM crosses and am very pleased with them - once I saw the photos on this BYC thread, I knew I had to have some. lol

Here are some of my SB eggs. They're worth the wait!

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

@ev-chicka, forgot to add that my SB girls are still laying steadily, even with all the fluctuations in temps we've been having here. These girls earn their keep!

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

I just hatched 6 SB a few weeks ago, so I have a long time to wait to get my own eggs lol but here is a pic of the eggs mine hatched from- they are in the middle carton( they were prettier in person)they are second import birds. The other 2 cartons have BLACK COPPER MARANS, (with a couple cream legbar and welsommer eggs mixed in)and Bielefelder eggs View attachment 1991589View attachment 1991590

Nice assortment! Did you get a good hatch rate on the SB, and were they shipped? My original stock is from shipped eggs and I had a good hatch with one shipment, abysmal with the other (and the second shipper was much closer)...and I've had quite a bit of practice now, so I'm ruling out technique/equipment issues as potential causes on the bad hatch.

Fortunately, hatches from my own girls' eggs have gone considerably better.

 

[chickenpolo]

Nice assortment! Did you get a good hatch rate on the SB, and were they shipped? My original stock is from shipped eggs and I had a good hatch with one shipment, abysmal with the other (and the second shipper was much closer)...and I've had quite a bit of practice now, so I'm ruling out technique/equipment issues as potential causes on the bad hatch.

Fortunately, hatches from my own girls' eggs have gone considerably better.

Those eggs are so pretty!
I had SB eggs shipped, I got 9, 1 was clear, 1 quit around day 14, and 7 went into lockdown. 6 of those hatched, the one that didn’t we found was upside down in the egg and must have drowned at pip or something. So I had pretty good success. The Marans I hatched at the same time were 7 days in shipping and I got 1 out of 8 to hatch. And 6 Bielefelder out of 11- but they were all Roos! So I tried again with the Bielefelder and Marans. And had only 3 of 14 Bielefelder to hatch but thankfully all pullets lol so it’s really a toss up with shipped eggs I guess.
I really want to try some bcm and SB crosses when these all get old enough, and I plan to get some more SB eggs but I’d like to find some first import, I saw Alchemist farm has them again but I don’t know if California to Michigan would work for eggs or chicks