Mille Cochin Info - Page 397

It looks like I may have a fertility issue with this new cockerel I put in with my two girls.  I have set 9 eggs and not one has developed.  So, I will have the kids help me catch them and I will trim their butts and then see if that helps.  If not.  I need a new roo.

That's it! I couldn't seem to remember what the guy at the hatchery call Cinnamon, but these birds look identical to the ones he showed me. So I asked for one, however I don't think that's what I got. LOL Frizzle of some kind...

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Originally Posted by Reyvaughn 

It looks like I may have a fertility issue with this new cockerel I put in with my two girls.  I have set 9 eggs and not one has developed.  So, I will have the kids help me catch them and I will trim their butts and then see if that helps.  If not.  I need a new roo.

 

 

Sometimes if my new little guy is too young & hasn't had practice  I can find myself going through a few months of infertility. Triming butts helps, but practice makes perfect.

Well, when I said cockerel, I may have been wrong.  He's either a year old now, or soon to be.  He hasn't been with any girls since I had him, but he has been with them for about 2 months now.  I'm not giving up on him yet, but he needs to do his job or he'll have to go.  That puts me in a bad spot then - no roo = no babies.  Unless I let my buff columbian, Byron have them.  He's an evil SOB...  ><

I have a nice cockerel for sale in the BST. :)

I saw him, but he doesn't have enough black and no chest flowers at all.  I have a roo like him that I won't use for the same reasons.

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Originally Posted by mjgigax 

This is my 3rd season to hatch Mille Fleur chicks.

 

Anyone notice chick colors that relate to good adult colors yet? So far it seems that if the chick has just a little grey fluff it will have a balanced color as an adult.- Maybe it is my imagination?

 

What about the chipmunk pattern? They seem to also create good adults.

 

Anyone have a good system for keeping track of birds from chick to adult. Leg bands?

 My brain is in knots trying to keep track of parantage and chick color.

 

This sure is a different project thay my Self-blues!

I love them all though.

my solution is a digital camera, and a HUGE hard drive.  8)  take lots of pics, rename them with chick id and date.

This is a hen I raised last year. I am having trouble figuring out the new BYC format.
 

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Originally Posted by DANNY 

It takes careful record keeping.  I use colored legbands, photos plus a flock book that holds all hatch dates, whose eggs, down color and legband color.  I don't breed many at once so I have maybe 2-5 hens with a roo.  I'll know whose egg is whose when they are separated in small groups.  I don't hatch hundreds of chicks so have lower #s to keep track of.