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" Roosters are the ones with two copies of the sex chromosome, while females only have one copy."

Would/Is this statement be why a rooters genes may/do override the hens?...
I am reading other threads and trying to figure some things out..just because.
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...i don't have anything else to do..hahahaha, i also have a sandbox to sell.
The more I read...the more questions and confusion...I get it, but not.
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I have a beautiful Barred Rock. She was hatchery (Ideal via a farm store) and she is definitely the head girl of my flock. The talkiest, bossiest and first to greet me. She is easy to pick up and cuddle, hasn't gone broody yet and was the meanest to all new kids on the block.
She sings to me if I check on the flock after they have gone to roost.
I was on vacation for two weeks and was waiting until I caught up on reading all the missed posts before posting--but I think I am closing in!
 
I have a some questions about egg storage...

 How long does everyone keep their washed & UN washed eggs??

I have read about & seen programs where people have had eggs stored for over a year. They rub-layer of mineral oil over their egg( sealing the shell) & keep cool dry cellar/place. Has anyone ever used this method?...
Just wanted to hear of someone actually having done this from here...not that I don't believe it, but I don't ..ahhahaha..

But I realize that other countries without refrigeration have been storing eggs and such differently for a millennia, without issue...I am just uncertain because of my westernized mind.:)


We use ours for weeks, left out, unwashed. We just collect them in the evening and add them to the basket on the table. Honestly, I have no clue how long they would keep but we haven't had a bad one yet. I'm still using turkey eggs from 3-4 weeks ago for baking and they've just sat on the counter since they were pulled from the nest box lol
 
I had a very miserable evening last night and morning this morning. When we were putting the chickens to bed last night, we could not find our little blue, bearded Silkie pullet. The suspected cockerel that she always spends her day with was there but she was nowhere to be found. We thought that maybe this morning she would make a reappearance when the food dishes were brought out but she was nowhere to be found. I searched the entire yard for anything I could, feathers, a body. Nothing. This afternoon, when we got home from some errands, I went out and Blue (the little cockerel) was just hanging out by the turkey run, right where there's a little gap, big enough that Jewel could've fit in to. I had checked the turkey coop and run twice but Blue was focused. So, right there by that gap, I pulled back a piece of wood that I use to block the underside of the turkey coop to keep chickens out since they like to hide nests under there and slowly, out comes Jewel! She must've slipped through that gap yesterday, got chased around by the turkeys and found another way to get under their shed. She's so quiet that id have never found her if Blue hadn't basically told me where she was lol. She was starving once she was out and is now happy to be running around with her buddy again. I'm just so thankful to have found her :)
 
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thank you. They are both nice sized birds. Temperaments seems close too. sweet mostly.
Was wondering about those combs...would be interesting for sure, most likely would get a mixed bag, depending on father &mother.

Is there a "in general" when genes are considered...as to the Males over the hens..
Is the over riding genes usually the father, no matter what the breed?, is what i think I am trying to ask...

I guess it helps to know what question I am trying to ask
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..i know my father would say that confusion has nothing to do with him!
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Thank you again...everyone!
Male genes don't exert more or less influence than female genes. In the chromosomes, there is no marker that shows which of the 2 strands of DNA came from the male. Minor exception is mitochondria, where all the DNA comes from the female since the mitochondria reside in the egg and not the dna of the sperm (sperm do have mitochondria, they need them to move and live as cells, but only the nucleus of the sperm joins into the egg to form that zygote.

Sexlinked genes are distinct in that males have 2 copied and females only 1. That leads to some interesting breeding possibilities, especially with partially dominant traits like barring. Barring puts white stripes on dark feathers, and 2 copies makes the stripes twice as wide, so the bird looks twice as white. True breeding barred males are easy to distinguish because of that difference in barring. A male can of course only have 1 copy of the barring gene, then the color would be like that female. Black sexlinks use this by taking the 1 barred gene from the female and pairing it with the non-barred genes of the male. Males contribute a non-barred gene to both sex progeny, females contribute a barring gene on their sex chromosome, but the presence of the that chromosome means the male progeny are barred, but any females are not.
 
I had a very miserable evening last night and morning this morning. When we were putting the chickens to bed last night, we could not find our little blue, bearded Silkie pullet. The suspected cockerel that she always spends her day with was there but she was nowhere to be found. We thought that maybe this morning she would make a reappearance when the food dishes were brought out but she was nowhere to be found. I searched the entire yard for anything I could, feathers, a body. Nothing. This afternoon, when we got home from some errands, I went out and Blue (the little cockerel) was just hanging out by the turkey run, right where there's a little gap, big enough that Jewel could've fit in to. I had checked the turkey coop and run twice but Blue was focused. So, right there by that gap, I pulled back a piece of wood that I use to block the underside of the turkey coop to keep chickens out since they like to hide nests under there and slowly, out comes Jewel! She must've slipped through that gap yesterday, got chased around by the turkeys and found another way to get under their shed. She's so quiet that id have never found her if Blue hadn't basically told me where she was lol. She was starving once she was out and is now happy to be running around with her buddy again. I'm just so thankful to have found her :)


That is so awesome that you found her, and give her Blue an extra handful of raisins for playing Lassie and sticking by her until she was rescued!
 
Seriously, I have "chicken binders"...

Is that like Pepto for chickens? Maybe when they have brown leakage?! :gig :gig
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Glad we can keep it classy here! :lau

I had a very miserable evening last night and morning this morning. When we were putting the chickens to bed last night, we could not find our little blue, bearded Silkie pullet. The suspected cockerel that she always spends her day with was there but she was nowhere to be found. We thought that maybe this morning she would make a reappearance when the food dishes were brought out but she was nowhere to be found. I searched the entire yard for anything I could, feathers, a body. Nothing. This afternoon, when we got home from some errands, I went out and Blue (the little cockerel) was just hanging out by the turkey run, right where there's a little gap, big enough that Jewel could've fit in to. I had checked the turkey coop and run twice but Blue was focused. So, right there by that gap, I pulled back a piece of wood that I use to block the underside of the turkey coop to keep chickens out since they like to hide nests under there and slowly, out comes Jewel! She must've slipped through that gap yesterday, got chased around by the turkeys and found another way to get under their shed. She's so quiet that id have never found her if Blue hadn't basically told me where she was lol. She was starving once she was out and is now happy to be running around with her buddy again. I'm just so thankful to have found her :)


That's awesome! What a hero!
 

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