What do you mean when you say "F1---all barred birds, split for the silkie gene"?
Like I said before, I am very new to this part. I've had chickens for the last 3 years, but just as pets and for egg production.
When you say 50% will be split for silkie feathers.....do you mean they'll be...
With it being a growth inhibitor, do you think it will kill whats on these new birds? They have lice pretty bad. I checked my original flock and they are all bug free, but I treated them with poultry protecter too, just to be safe.
Not sure if anyone is even still following this post, but I got 3 new Cochin today that are infested pretty good. Gonna use the poultry protector on them......will let you know how it goes
I have several different color silkies, and was wonderin how or what to breed with them to get the cuckoo. I had a cuckoo male for a year+, and my hens were not old enough to breed, unfortunately, we recently lost him, and now have a bunch of girls ready and no cuckoo :(