That's a bummer.
The color-genetics-thread, hasn't had too much activity recently tho. If your hen is blue then the babies will have a 50% chance of being blue, if she is splash then all the babies will be blue. Should have some gold leakage in their feathers also.
We've had roosters in the...
Sex-linked. 2 more chocolate (female) chicks hatched, 1 male and 1 that I'm stumped on. Is not chocolate but looks like she/he only has one copy of the barring gene.
Question, can you tell if a rooster is double or single barred? I was so sure that mine was double barred... but the only other...
If the male is the Cin. Legbar, then yes (cause of his chocolate gene).
Cinnamon Legbars are still only a project so I really don't know all the genes they carry, my roo seems to be solid (pattern) but he carries the "duckwing" pattern. 3 more of his babies just hatched (mom is Cream Legbar)...
@chickendreams24 so sorry about your grandpa. I'm not a doctor or anything but my (90+ year old) grandfather lived with us for over 2 years and in that time we actually stopped the progress of and partially reversed his very advanced Alzheimer's with the right foods. The things that really made...
I couldn't wait til tomorrow so set most of mine, will collect todays eggs and set them tomorrow. I'll post the total then. My first batch of eggs from the project chickens is due to hatch in 5 days! So excited to see what they look like - and if the right roo is the father
I generally don't wash eggs because I collect them a million times a day and they have no time to get poop'y, but I have in the past if they were really too dirty. Seems like they developed/hatched just as well as as the ones I didn't wash. You just want to make sure the incubator is super...