What color eggs will a chicken with green legs & yellow feet lay?
Chick with multi colored legs.
Polka dot eggs? :o)
Seriously, the green legs is a trait that I see in some of my blue egg layers, but I'm not sure that it's correlated. The yellow feet are more common in my white egg layers...
well i was thinking green legs usually lay blue or green eggs.. thats they way my chicks have been so far.. but i wondered if half yellow & half green would give me tye dyed eggs or what? I've never seen a chick with two colors on its legs like that. Its so adorable. Stubborn lil thing won't stand still for pics tho. Nutmeg also lays green eggs & her legs are olive colored.
I had two americauna crossed (I think with a barred rock), they had green legs and yellow feet. I used to get the most wonderful kaki colored eggs from them.
If you look at the inside of the kaki colored egg, it is a green egg.. then it has a brown coating which is what gives it it's kaki color.. light brown over the green = kaki.
interesting....khaki colored eggs. Wonder what our little Ameraucana mixes will lay.
You are right, the kaki could be scrubbed off, just like the speckles from my Brahmas.
The neighbors chickens lay khaki colored eggs.. I've never tried scrubbing them tho.. now i will have too.. I want to see if the khaki color can be rubbed off of them. :)
We have one that lays what sometimes looks like light olive green and other times it looks mud green. I think she was a mix of the blue and green. Only thing I can think of for the different color. And we only have one that does it.
Hey Greykitty OOP's Kyttyn: Easter is over for the year darling, you gotta quit dipping the girl's legs into that food dye. LOL Haystack
I thought it was the other half of the chick that got dyed for Easter...
LOL porkpal............Not here anymore.
:-p silly.. if i was gonna dye the chicks legs for Easter it wouldn't be green.. I'd have dyed her purple!
OH Greykyttyn do you have any idea, about whats going thru my mind right now? My chickens are going to hate you come next easter. OH YES!!! Hay
Just be sure to post pictures!
Non-toxic dyes only!!!
Kool-Aid work on chickens?
is Kool-Aid non toxic?
Depends on WHO makes it....
lol....
hmm... I'll have to look into this. :)
Ooooo...porkpal, I like the way you think. It's scary...but I like it.
henna dye? is it nontoxic?
Henna is non-toxic...but the colour range is limited. Pretty much red to reddish brown. There is something used in henna tattoos called "black henna". It is incredibly toxic...people have "henna tattoos" while on vacation and are scarred for life.
depends on the flavour of kool-aid. I have seen sheeples and poods (or is that poodles and sheeps?) dyed with kool-aid. They didn't seem any the worse for it.
I had a henna tattoo done at a Renaissance festival once. My coworkers were shocked and flabbergasted when I walked in with it on Monday morning. Of course, it wasn't permanent....
Henna tattoos are very popular here--largely because of the Indian/Pakistani communities where it plays a traditional role in the wedding preparation. Apparently the bride, who has amazingly complex "mehndi/henna" tattoos drawn on her hands, does not have to do any housework until they fade away after the wedding.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mehndi+designs&aq=0&oq=mehn&aqi=g10
This is a very good idea, IMHO.
Now, to perfect a permanent henna tattoo....
i was talking food grade henna dye for hair.. guess i should have made that clear.. they mix indigo with it to get black. and yes its not colors.. what do they dye the Easter chicks with?
Henna ink tattoos last 2 to 4 weeks depending on your skin & how long you let the dye set.. you can redo them every 2 weeks to darken & keep them from fading. :) been researching it cause i have a henna ink kit so I can get a temp tattoo on my shoulder sometimes soon.
Hi greykyttyn! I think indigo based black henna would be safe on chickens too. I know sometimes they mix it with coffee to get a darker brown. They dye most easter chicks with regular food grade dyes.
The "black henna" I was referring to is chemical-based and really nasty. I found out about it when I was growing henna for the flowers (they are scented!).
http://www.hennapage.com/henna/ppd/index.html
My DH's daughter, whose mother is Indian, had her hands henna'd when she was taking part in a relative's wedding. She was only 5 at the time and when she went to school the next day all proud of her mehndi designs she got in trouble for "drawing on her hands with markers". Poor little girl.
aww the poor thing. Thier designs are beautiful, at least the ones I've seen. I love the fact it wears off.. i don't like permanent things right now.
any chance Henna would grow here in Missouri? :)
could you imagine even attempting to dye the silly birds? It would be a nightmare! I'd probably be dyed several colors as well just attempting to dye them.
You could throw the dye on them--and they would look like hippie birds...
The last site I gave above describes how to grow henna--I think it is Lawsonia inermis. It is a shrub or small tree--you might be able to grow it as a house plant. Here is the description of its outdoor cultural requirements.
http://www.hennapage.com/henna/encyclopedia/geography/geography1.html
And there are links toward the bottom of this page on how to grow it:
http://www.hennapage.com/henna/encyclopedia/index.html
I bought the seeds on-line. It was easy to start.
aww.. i didn't click the link bc they wont' come up on this computer. i'll check them tomorrow during lunch on the work computer. :) thanks!