Valentines Day Hatch-A-Long 2016

[junebuggena]

My girls are finally getting back to laying. That means it's time for me to fire up my incubator. I'm setting a half-dozen Easter Egger eggs and a half-dozen black sexlink eggs on the 23rd.
Anyone else care to join?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Eggs were set today

 

[cjkriebel]

Just loaded the bator up with 32 mixes and 9 red sex links.

 

[JacksFarmNGardn]

Awesome. Buff Orpington rooster crossed with Light Brahma hens will produce sexlinked chicks.

I'm looking forward to more of these!!

 

[junebuggena]

I think (could be wrong) that Isabelle Leghorns are a silver-based partridge coloring but with the self-blue/lavender gene diluting the black patterning. I think that Cream Legbars are gold partridge coloring with the cream gene, which is a recessive diluting gene for gold, and the barring gene. The Leghorns will breed like they don't have the dilute when crossed, so basically like a Silver Leghorn. The Legbars will breed more like a 'crele' color, when crossed.
If the Legbar is the rooster, and the Isabelles are the hens, you might get non-typical red sexlinks. All the chicks will be barred. Pullets will be golden in coloring. Males will be black and white, with some red leakage as they mature.
If the rooster is Isabelle, and the hens are Cream Legbar, you will get non-typical black sexlinks. All the boys will have head spots indicating barring, and the hens won't get the barring gene at all.

 

[junebuggena]

I wonder what white leghorns and a black Australorp cross would look like

I inherited 2 white hens with the new house. Might be worth the experiment.

That particular cross is called an AustraWhite. You get white birds with random flecks of black.

 

[FridayYet]

Sorry Russ. I prefer anonymity on here so I just go by Friday.

 

[TJordan]

I cracked open all my fails. It was interesting showing my daughter a blood ring death. The clears were just normal looking.

 

[eastereggerlady]

I have a dozen Easter eggers in my bator now due to hatch the 19th! I love the first hatch of the year!

 

[TJordan]

Only one so far. She was tangled in the cheese cloth so I saved her and took quick pic. 4 more pips sense 10am but no zips yet.