Yeah but still so heartbreaking. Im glad i have all my roosters so at least crossing them on my poorer quality hens may help improve the chicks. But i have new plans for coops/pens next spring and will be a proof as possible. All my new heavy duty dog kennels will be installed with kennel tops...
Ya can keep me in mind Amy.
Loosing a lot of the good ones to predators i was trying to work on and setting me back to the poor color pattern and type. Im always in the market of good birds, eggs, stock!!!
I do have some good roosters as they was safe on the purch and made it. So i do have my...
Sounds like mareks
I would stop breeding if this is happening
No good will come from it ever.
I would cull and cull hard...
Or a bad genetic and again... 3 batchs and bad parent stock... not something that should be bred and possibly sold and entered in the world and more gene pools. Again...
I wouldn't call either of these calicos...
Not saying that they dont carry calico in their genes.
Im not sure exactly what to call them other then red.
???
I have a really nice quality blk mottled rooster out of Amy Phillips flock that im gonna use on bettering my type and feathering.
So with my 5 birds, the pair i bought above and a few blk mottleds and frizzles i have. I have a nice flock to work with. And eventually my look into making...
She is dunn. And split breast is a 50/50 in my opinion. The hen dont have it and my 5 pullets dont have it. So i will only find out how the offspring turn out once i hatch and growout. But im still pretty excited to work with them and also have a kick butt blk mottled roo to cross onto them as...
I just won a auction on fb of chocolate cochins and cant wait for them to arrive next week. I have 5 chocolate cochin pullets with 2 being frizzled and 1 of them being a mottled as well. So this new pair will be a huge improvement and bloodlines to ky project.
Im super excited for them to get here.
I'm curious which hatchery has calicos as I didn't think any did.
And for backyard love,there's nothing wrong with them. I have 40+ of the same type in my coop too. I love mine to death. Lol
And for show/standards folks. I can't blame them at all pointing out faults. Its their passion to...
Wow!
What a good cat fight. Like reading this.
Anywho...
I bought eggs from erin, just recently myself.
Post office defected a lot of them but got 8 good ones growing and got my fingers crossed for a few good birds.
I love erins birds and as a person who has crap birds. Im working on my type...
Already itchy hatching fingers here!
Just hatches a lot of Cochin's.
Sold a lot of them too already.
Did a fertility and color run.
Fertility 100%
Color... Not so good.
New separated pens now.
Millie's in 1 pen
Blue and black mottled in another.
Silkies in another.
Also just bought approx 40...