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I called those "dilute pharaoh" when I got them in a hatch randomly. No idea what they are genetically, but they came from a grau-fee type hen. They look almost like the "silver pharaoh" types (that you had some of too, Sara) but they're a shade closer to normal pharaohs. I sold mine but I will...

It's okay! I just took a vacation, got busy with chores and holidays, came back to 800 notifications, and now it's taken me a while to get up to sorting through them :th

I am just trying to be the PSA reminding everyone to take everything everyone says, including me, with a grain of salt. Do your own research. Come to your own conclusions. Not all sources are equal; spend time evaluating them. Don't put all of your eggs in one basket. Assume everyone is full of...

Look, imma say this once and only once. I do not like shit like this, and my instinct is to just fade away and ignore it every time it's brought up. But the confusion generated on this board by zack's attempt at being helpful is genuinely distressing to me. The information is out there, and I...

The white genes confuse me in that no one has info on which strains carry which and I don't have any to test breed. I think dotted white is dominant too. :idunno

Breeding or laying flock? Breeding = 1:2-3 Laying = 1:6-12 or just no males at all Males start getting plucked out of growouts at 5-6 weeks for being buttholes (but the majority coexist pretty well until 8-10 wks).

They're lovely! I would not worry about that! Really hope they're not all males. That seems to be more common. :gig

I adore him! What great pattern. And it's not often the color you were hoping for is also the largest chick in the batch so I am in camp keep him. Little spoiled things.:barnie Bleh, that happens. Especially this time of year. They get very confused as to whether they're supposed to be...

Like but also dislike.

Do it! And give us chick pics. :D Actually, that's best; both silvers and some golden genes are lethal when birds get two copies so it's safest to breed them to non-carriers. If you want to keep the color real pure breed them each to wild type birds instead but if you just want to experiment go...

Ah well. I have to pay for being lazy earlier by being dedicated thrice-daily splint-checker now. Isn't that always the way of it. :gig They look good! Both upright-ish and peppy. Cross your fingers for me that both straighten out or another hatches soon. No loner chicks for me! I hope.

Golden Manchurian is a dominant trait in that birds only need 1 copy of it to express the color, but it will usually blend with other colors, sometimes to cool results! Here's a silver-diluted golden italian, which is a similar gene to Manchurian at the same place. And here's a pearl-fee...

I know! Same dilemma here. And these are besides my NINE breeding males. Which one is Goliath? A falb? Yessss.

I probably will just get more of each, but I have a hunch that a double-dose of fee might clean up those gold highlights in the pearls (not that I don't like them that way, too. I want all the ways! Simultaneously)

I hate those few moments after you splint them but before they figure out how to move, when they are just like "this is it. I have accepted death." :hit I splinted the little one too. I am being much more proactive with them than I normally would be; I do think their poor feet got squished...

They're SO LATE. This is the morning of day 22! I ran the incubator at the exact same temp as always; the only difference was the humidity and the turning (or lack thereof. I did do it whenever I was here and paying attention! Which was, er, a few days in the middle). Weird. Much fiddling is...

They're pretty curled. :/ Yeah, mine usually do too, but it's usually noticeably better by now even when left on the atrocious hatch-mat thing. I'm too lazy to set up the brooder for 1 yet but I'll get him on a paper towel in there, see if that gets him going.

I have actually never had such a late hatcher. Do they often have a harder time uncurling their feet? I am debating braces. Its only been about 8 hrs (I usually wait ~12-16) since he hatched but no sign of straightening at all yet and I don't want to chance it :/

Fluffy boi with 10g egg for reference. He is another of my charcoals, too. #2 is out, but has the barest hint of hernia so he's in baby-jail for the moment. Also fancy! But he wrecked his egg and I'm still trying to tell whether it was one of mine or one of the freebies I got.

He is legit 150% the average size of my newborn chicks :eek: From one of my 17g eggs!