November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

[foxystag]

Does anybody know if inbreeding chickens is bad

I have heard breeding the father to the daughter is okay, but mother to son was bad? I want to say breeding siblings is bad too. o-o

Take my statement with a grain of salt- just something I remember reading somewhere. x:

 

[rowdydouillard]

im pretty sure my black hen is a cochin and if her chick is a roo i want to cull my banty game cock roo so i can get more cochins.

 

[Heidisgran]

2 white leghorns out of 3...1 died before it hatched


5 out of 6 favorelles
6 out 10 Russian orloffs.....so far

today is hatch day!!

I was gone most of yesterday I'll get pictures today

 

[Heidisgran]

What's the best way to deal with the revelation that your hatch isn't going to happen? Set more eggs, of course! A friend has collected a dozen eggs for me! She has French Copper Marans, Swedish Flowers, and Golden Lakenvelders. I told her to surprise me with whatever breeds she wants! I'm so excited. But now, if any of my other six actually are good come Sunday, I guess I'll have to build a hatcher!

that's what I would do

I'm envious of the golden lakenvelders....but I hope you didn't get them from the same person on ebay I bought mine from....not 1 was fertile...she's suppose to be working with me to get me some eggs in the spring

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote: I'm sorry...failure to thrive!....seems there's always 1

but maybe with vitamins and a special diet it will do well

sweet little things

 

[Heidisgran]

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[Heidisgran]

im pretty sure my black hen is a cochin and if her chick is a roo i want to cull my banty game cock roo so i can get more cochins.

question?? he has to die???

 

[Heidisgran]

Max- A turkey in his natural habitat.

That baby is so fine!!! what show were y'all watching?? lol

the hen your holding...the egg layer

....is so beautiful...what breed is she??

 

[rowdydouillard]

Hopefully not. He is to aggressive for a free range bird but I'm going to try to get him a new home

 

[DeannaA]

That baby is so fine!!! what show were y'all watching?? lol

the hen your holding...the egg layer

....is so beautiful...what breed is she??

We were watching Castle. Max always sits facing the TV to watch. Max loves Castle. Cinnamon is the one that just laid her fist egg yesterday. When she was in the brooder she would jump onto the corner of my bed every morning and wake me up. She has always been a little friendlier than most of them. Now she comes in the house several times a day. I hold her a lot. She is beautiful but then I think all of my chickens are. She is an Easter Egger sold to me as an Aruacana. I didn't believe them and was happy to have Easter Eggers. I bought 8 from the feed store in April, they got them from Mt Healthy. The beginning of my addiction. So far 3 of the 8 have started laying. All the same green color egg.