Posts by hobbychicken

Well I have a update on the on my situation. The other black hens eggs all hatched and I now have blue slate poults alive and doing great. A couple of the other hens eggs hatched and they are a totally different color. I am now wondering...

Quote:Originally Posted by Arielle You might consider what they are eating. How long have you had them in relation to your other birds that are hatching egg  just fine? Are both groups of breeding stock feed the same feed?? Is the...

Oh I forgot to also say that all the eggs so far are out of the same hen. I have the first ones out of the other hen to hatch the second. If they all hatch I am going to find the one hen a new home.

Quote:Originally Posted by heritagehabitatfarms that is interesting... how many are we talking about here??? where did you get your birds from??? sometimes a certain gene will make a bird weaker but i have never heard that with the...

I am hatching out blue slate turkeys. My hens are black and the Tom is blue with black specks. The problem I am having is all the blue poults die the day after they hatch or die in shell right before they hatch. All the black poults...

It looks identical to the very top dark one. So it is a royal purple pied ? That's cool guinea genetics are crazy....lol

I have one keet that has hatched. By the pictures on the internet it looks to me like a royal purple but this is my first one to ever hatch. I am not sure it seems darker than the chocolate keet pics.

I wish I could find info on colors. Like if you breed this to this you get this kinda thing. What colors produce what. I have searched the internet but not really anything that I have found.

Quote:Originally Posted by PeepsCA She may be out of pure White parents, but those pure Whites were covering up a base color just as she is. White is not really an actual color per say, it's more like a cover-up. Some believe it...

Quote:Originally Posted by PeepsCA Mine aren't, so my guess is that your Chocolate male prefers your White Hen and is just not breeding the other 2 Hens. Chocolate bred to White should produce all Pied Chocolate keets, but...