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Try giving your chick vitamins in his water. Rickets is a cause of curled toes in older chicks, but if you give the vitamins soon enough the toes will straighten out. This can sometimes happen even if you are using commercial chick feed.

chick pickin you have an excellent understanding of how sexlinks work. However here is another combination that will work..A Rhodebar male could also be used in the place of the Legbar (either Cream or Crele) to cross with the silver female to produce the barred red sexlink pullet in this scenario.

Flowerbh, Thanks for the ovation and the invite. I will start visiting here more often.

Glad to help. Thanks for the ovation, katsdar. After over fifty years in chickens I have picked up a few things. I am still learning and enjoy BYC!

Forgive me for barging in, I live in NC and read this thread now and then, but I just have to answer this. The bantams do lay little blue eggs. Araucanas and Ameraucanas are recognized by the APA and therefore purebred breeds. Araucanas are tailless and have tuffs on their cheeks. Ameraucanas...

I think the important thing is to be clear in communications. Everyone will not know the standard of male first so somewhere in each post the poster should indicate how he/she is listing the breedings. Stating "males listed first" would take care of the confusion and encourage others to follow...

I would say that in animal breeding the male is first because the male can produce many more offspring than the female. With animals if you can't control the breeding and know who the father is than you are not a breeder. Poultry breeding has traditionally been done with 1 rooster and a group of...

Since I have spent my life as a college professor teaching biology and listing the male parent first for mammals. I did some research on google scholar and found that the male is listed first in scientific literature on poultry. However, the researchers do specify the order of the cross in each...

Please provide the link to the thread you started on this subject.

As I said NJ were a landrace. Were is the past tense. In 1935 selective breeding was done to save the breed. They are now a standard heritage breed in Norway. They are now available in 3 colors with other unrecognized colors in Norway. This information is from...

I don't want to hijack this thread as it is about ACs so I will be brief. NJs were a landrace in Norway and are a heritage breed not an engineered breed. NJs are friendly and mine run to me if I have treats though the EEs usually chase them away. They lay a medium to large egg, most often...

You should try Norwegian Jaerhons. They are Gull type birds who though active and good fliers are gentle and can be kept with other gentle breeds. I have raised them for years with EEs and they are less aggressive than the EEs. I have with 2 roosters and 23 hens, EEs and NJs, in one pen and they...

Hi Georgia neighbors, Does any one have a Marans, Ameraucana, Olive or Easter Egger rooster for sale. I want him to breed some nice Olive Egger hens. I live in NC near McCaysville, GA.

I am looking for a breeding age rooster for my oliver egger hens. Does anyone have a Marans, Ameraucana, Oliver or Easter Egger rooster within 50 miles of where NC, TN, and GA come together? If you do please PM me.

This seems like a great idea and much simpler than other rollouts I have seem. How much slant does the bottom have?

Gray Stripe Norwegian Jaerhon Hen Gray Stripe Norwegian Rooster These pictures are from Norway. The Gray Stripe or Gray is a newly approved variety of Jaerhon. There are other varieties that are not yet approved in Norway, but may be some day. I have...

I have been communicating with Norwegian breeders and they have provided me with the official Norwegian Standard for the Norwegian Jaerhon. Bjorn Netland, the original importer of the Jaerhon is working to translate it. I am so excited! We should soon have a guide to properly select our breeding...

I just got this from a Norwegian chicken Club and was very interested to see that the gray variety is now approved. NORWEGIAN Norwegian Jærhøne Country: Norway Very good egg layer Hardy, good flyer Comb: single comb Approved colors: brown yellow, yellow brown, gray Weight: Rooster: 1.75 to 2...

If you cross the two types you should get both types after a couple years of inbreeding, but the results of the crosses might be difficult to predict. The homozygous dark would be eb/eb and the homozygous light would be e+/e+ so if you started with homozygous varieties then the F1 generation...

So the Production Blacks you are talking about are basically barred leghorns that are bred for egg production and not show. I thought they were a sex-link hybrid. They would produce auto-sexing chicks with Norwegian Jaerhons. What hatchery do they come from? If they are as nice as their picture...