Definitely NOT an ancona. My guess would be swedish or a mix. Anconas should have more white than color and have speckled bills, legs & feet. I call my annies my dalmation ducks. That is the type of spotting desirable on an ancona.
Guaranteed...there WILL be poop...LOTS OF POOP!
My girls who hatched end of Sept & beginning of Oct this past year are just starting to lay. That means about 7 months, give or take a couple weeks. My spring hatch girls the year before were laying by March as soon as weather warmed up.
I'm currently in town & my critters are up the road at a friend's farm. I'm supposed to go look at a house Sun where all of my critters are welcome.
Wing is on facebook daily. Sally Sunshine knows wherr to find me too.
Actually, my daughter who is going to school for culinary arts is the 1...
Lemme see: over 100 chicks already booted to the grow out pens, 9 ducklings, 40 quail in the pen, 40 quail in the indoor brooder, 25 broad breasted poults in outdoor brooder, 7 hertiage poults inside, 1 gosling & another 40 chicks in 2 brooders.
The incubator has a few more turkey & a goose in...
1 pen has a red slate tom, 2 bronze mix hens & a rusty slate hen. The other pen is the offspring of pen 1. There is a red tom, a black tom, & red slate. Hens are bronze, blue narri & blue palm. Only 1 young hen laying (probably the blue palm.) These will throw a rainbow. No 2 were exactly the...
I kinda dropped off the face of the earth for a while, but wingstone knows where to find me on facebook if anyone needs me. Hatching season us upon us & I'm swamped with babies.
Current Offer:
4+ Mixed color Heritage turkey (2 pens laying)
Or
12+ Assorted color coturnix quail
Or
8+ EE/OE layers
Or
12+ Mixed brown egg layers
Or
Hen's Choice: could include any listed above &/or pilgrim goose or peafowl
If those are white tips on her feathers & not just a trick of the light, then she is a blue mottled. Otherwise, she looks like blue slate. Mottled is a cross between slate & palm. I intentionally bred these a few years ago & they are very pretty. I would love to have her if she doesn't find her...
Blue slate hen, and doesn't look to be in too bad of shape with this being mating season. Feathers will look pretty rough this time of year if she has been with a tom. Very nice looking girl. If you can't find her owner & don't want her, I would be interested in her. I have space to quarantine...
I have my "camo mix" (ee, oe, chocolate) eggs or mixed brown egg layers. Pilgrim geese are laying sporadically. Mixed color heritage turkeys are laying well. Assorted color coturnix quail are laying well.
Coturnix $4/dozen
Turkey $3/egg
Goose $5/egg
Brown eggs $6/dozen
Camo eggs $10/dozen...
Mine on Anconas Offer: 4+ Mixed color Heritage turkey (2 pens laying) Or 12+ Assorted color coturnix quail Or 8+ EE/OE layers Or 12+ Mixed brown egg layers Or Hen's Choice: could include any listed above &/or pilgrim goose or peafowl