Okay…help me think this through.
My breeding pen is completely enclosed. The rooster is a BCM. I have one Ameraucana that lays this light bluish colored egg. So this chick is an F1OE. The hen is a brown partridge color.😳 I do have a splash hen that is an F1OE that I am backcrossing with my BCM...
Pics of my BCM rooster and one of the hens in the breeding pen. I do have three BCM hens in the pen. One does not have a lot of copper on her hackle feathers like the other two. I have hatched these eggs before and have always hatched black chicks, so I am trying to figure out the genetic...
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I’m in Northern California. I breed and have 13 coops, separate yards, and free range space on 5-acres. My two Welsummer girls are looking for their sugar daddy. Please let me know if you have a boy who would like a loving home and his own girls.
Pic is of me and one of my own cockerels...
Can people please check my formulas for olive Egger breeding and answer some of my qts below? DBR is dark brown egg rooster
1)F1+F1=F2, F2+F2=F3, F3+F3=F4, F4+F4=F5
2)BC1+BC1=BC2, BC2+BC2=BC3, BC3+BC3=BC4, BC4+BC4=BC5
OR
F1+DBR=BC1, BC1+DBR=BC2, BC2+DBR=BC3
3) F2+BC1=? What would this...
So my chicken groups have separate dedicated areas and coops. My LO hens are flighty and will fly out, but no one comes into their space, much less their coop to lay an egg.
With that said, I no longer have Speckled Sussex hens, but I have one or two roosters from my sweet Minnie who fell to...
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So I am working on a project breed and the chicks came from the same hen and same rooster. What are some reasons chicks from the same parents look different from one another? My rooster is splash, so the breeding calculator says the chicks will be blue, which 3 of them are. But the...
I originally thought this was a pullet 😒…but don’t believe that to be true at this point. I just started seeing light cream coming in the neck area and I’m wondering how this is possible with my flock. I thought the momma was a blue copper marans and the dad was my splash copper marans, but...
I’m hoping everyone can access these videos. I have four chicks hatched from my incubator. 2 eggs were blue. 1 egg was mint green. 1 egg was cream.
I have 1 chicken laying a blue egg-Ameraucana
I have 1 chicken laying a mint green egg- Favaucana
I have two chickens laying cream eggs-Speckled...
I just got an auto turning incubator and it suggests that I turn the eggs manually 3-4 times/day during the “setting” time. I’m confused as it is already turning the eggs(like a turn table) am I suppose to turn the eggs themselves in addition to them turning? I thought I wasn’t suppose to open...
This is a Welsummer. Suppose to be a pullet but it is looking more like a cockerel to me. What are your thoughts?
Age is about 4 weeks now...maybe 5.
First two are the chick in question. Last two photos is one of the other chicks that see.s like a solid pullet to me.
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I have been reading that young SF chick pullets can be varied in color and have no tail feathers. So I am hoping this 6-week chick is a pullet, but I’m wanting feedback. She does have some dark areas, but I don’t know if I would say they are “black”. No black on her chest. Her wings are layered...
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I now have 4 pullets-one is of laying age.
4-4- week old...
So these two are about 2 weeks old. I know it is still super early, but wanted to get some feedback. I have ordered a roo just in case both of these are pullets and the roo chick is set to come the first week in April.
So here is my observation qt. Between these two, their wing development is...