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I own a rooster of 55 Flowery Hen and I would like to create a breeding group of this breed. Sadly from the eggs I bought I didn’t get any female. It’s has been hard for me to get the hatching eggs from this breed and it would be nearly impossible to obtain other eggs.
Is there...
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What can affect the growth of the comb in chicken? And how?
I'm especially thinking of a straight comb in rooster.
This year I hatched 15 male of black minorca (straight comb) and almost all have floppy comb.
I'm thinking if this can be...
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I have crossed a cream legbar rooster with my light Sussex to produce what it should be a sexlink, I first hatched one chicks two weeks ago and now I have another batch of 9 newly hatched chicks. The lighter one should be the males. But there are certain that I’m not sure about...
Hello, I have a problem with a few of my hens. There is a problem with their head skin. I don’t know if those can be parasites or a fungus infection. Here are a couple of pictures. The behavior is normal. Any advice? The problem is present only on my marans and Ayam cemani hens no sign of this...
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Fluralaner is the active ingredient used on Exzolt who is a liquid solution used for control the infestation of red mites on poultry. Exzolt is diluted to drinking water and give to poultry. The dosage required of Fluralaner is 0.5 mg/Kg BW. Exzolt is sold at a dosage of 10...
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I would know if is possible to make a sexlink cross with a silver Sussex hen crossed with a gold rooster (BCM or CCL), like the one on the picture. They have white feathers on the neck and also on the breast. I’m not sure if it’s carrying the silver gene. These are layers...
Hello everyone, I have a 5 months old maran cockerel that have a problem on an eye and it's breathing in a strange way, it make a strange sound. It was with other 3 marans hens/sister and other hybrid layers, now I have put it alone. The other hens looks healthy, the only thing is that sometimes...
I’m planning to cross a Cemani rooster with a leghorn hen. This cross should be sex linked, right? I should obtain hens with black skin and roosters with clear skin. Someone that have done this cross know if the hens produced from this cross are good layers?
I’m planning to try a sex link cross for the next year, I want to cross a BCM rooster with barred hybrid hen. If I have understood this should work. I don’t know the genotype of the hens but the phenotype is clearly barred. This should give me a black sex linked cross.
Now I also have some...
Hello, I’m Alessio and I’m from Switzerland, I found this forum by looking for specific information on sexlink crosses.
I have three different breeds of chicken: Ayam Cemani, Maran and Bantam Maran. I also have some layer hen. Now with all the chicks I have approximately 300 chicken.
English is...