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Morning fellow Mississippians. I see it has been awhile since any others have posted here. Hopefully if I have any questions pertaining to this area, I will post. This is now on my watch.

I get notifications on this thread so maybe no MS questions will get by us!

WallyG74 said:

I get notifications on this thread so maybe no MS questions will get by us!

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Quite possible! Thanks for your reply.

Southeast MS here. We have SLWs, 16 pullets & 2 Roos. They’re all just past 20 wks & we’re waiting on the first eggs.

Coffetym said:

Southeast MS here. We have SLWs, 16 pullets & 2 Roos. They’re all just past 20 wks & we’re waiting on the first eggs.

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I have some SLW’s here in the tip of the sip, Hernando MS. They are 6 months old and just starting to lay. Where did you get yours?

Cackle Hatchery
Ours hatched back in May & were raised like pets & they definitely act like it.

Coffetym said:

Southeast MS here. We have SLWs, 16 pullets & 2 Roos. They’re all just past 20 wks & we’re waiting on the first eggs.

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NeilW1 said:

I have some SLW’s here in the tip of the sip, Hernando MS. They are 6 months old and just starting to lay.

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My GLW are 21 weeks old now and I've just started getting one egg each day. I have 14 pullets in with 2 SLW cockerels. This combination will yield all SLW chicks so this spring I'm planning on putting some of their eggs in the incubator to hatch out a SLW flock and put them under a GLW cock so I can hatch some sex linked chicks.

I want to put this out to our central Mississippi members to see if I should plan on getting out my big cabinet incubator in a couple of months instead of using the small one.

Silver Laced Wyandotte (Meyer Hatchery stock)
I don't know the exact dates that I will be starting this hatch, it will depend on the pullets, but when I start getting enough eggs from the pullets I will be setting about 26 eggs for myself with the hope of getting 10 female chicks. My small incubator will hold 41 eggs with the automatic turner, so that would leave 15 slots for extras, and if there is any interest in more than that then I can get out my GQF Sportsman cabinet incubator and set as many as my chickens will give me.

So, if anyone is interested in straight run SLW chicks for Florence/Richland, MS local pickup only then you can send me a DM and let me know. I'm not NPIP yet, but I am planning on getting that process started soon, so by the time I set these eggs I may have my own NPIP certificate, depending on how long that takes. My birds did all come from Meyer Hatchery, and I have the NPIP certificates from those shipments.

I guess I should add that the flock I will be setting these eggs from contain 2 SLW cockerels and 14 GLW pullets. So the female chicks will be straight SLW, but the male chicks will be split for gold but look mostly silver.

NatJ said:

Gold/Silver are on the Z sex chromosome.
A rooster has ZZ. He might be pure gold, he might be pure silver, or he might be split (gold and silver, but looks mostly silver.)
A hen has ZW. She is gold, or she is silver, but she is never split (because W does not have the gold or silver gene.)

A hen gets her Z chromosome from her father, and W from her mother. She gives her Z chromosome to her sons, and her W chromosome to her daughters.

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