Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Glad we can keep it classy here!

Sorry

First class and no class!

 

[stake]

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!

yep, she's a looker....Alpha girls are always interesting....mine is a CCL, she is sweet with me, but she won't share a meal with anyone but her buddy( an older Red Dorking)

 

[stake]

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

LMP/Auro:

Eggs last a long time....it was common practice in long distance yachting to take fresh eggs, smear a film of vasoline on the eggs, turn the eggs once a day and they would last 90 days in the Caribbean.......

 

[stake]

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

Congrats....missing birds always give me a bunch of agnst....glad she's back and unharmed

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Is that like Pepto for chickens? Maybe when they have brown leakage?!

OMGosh ABI!!!...

..you...
i try & be serious..finally & this is what you do...

..you know i love you!

LOL

you realize you'll only encourage her

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!

keep going!..

..Hope you had a great vacation too!! Glad your back!

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

thank you...was wondering if 2-3 months is too long?....guess the water/float test would tell.

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

..so glad she is okay!!..Gosh, i was reading this thinking , this better end well!! So happy you found her

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.

thank you...okay,
if i am understanding this correctly...

#1-sexlinked barred birds(males) will have more white "area"..and true will be "thinner" area.....

#2- true breeding barring is the same on both male & female...

****" 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."***

Is this why Black sexlinked males have a dot on their heads? or am I totally lost ?...I hope not.

You do realize, WHEN i get a rooster, ( don't tell DH though), but WHEN I get one...I am going to be asking a LOT of questions!! hahaha....I will give you a waning so you can hide, promise

....I do love genetics, my problem is "brain troubles"..hahaha, seriously though, If I don't write things down..poof..they are gone.
I do appreciate you divulging your knowledge, thank you.

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

LMP/Auro:

Eggs last a long time....it was common practice in long distance yachting to take fresh eggs, smear a film of vasoline on the eggs, turn the eggs once a day and they would last 90 days in the Caribbean.......

oh wow...well, that says a lot!
i have some eggs been kinda doing an experiment with...hoping it isn't for not . will know very soon.

 

[BullChick]

Danielle, please answer me

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

Danielle, please answer me

I hope you are behaving yourself Abi....

 

[dheltzel]

I hope you are behaving yourself Abi....

LOL, not likely . . .

 

[BullChick]