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Just to help yall, I found out recently by watching multiple batches, how easy it really is to sex Rhode Island reds. Not at 1 day old, but by about 2 weeks, and just fully confirmed by 4 weeks. See here. Both 2 and a half weeks old. In both pictures, one is almost fully feathered, and the...

Also........ if the humidity is going up and down based on when I can get there to put more water in.... like right now i put water in and bring it up to 55 in the morning, but when I come back at the end of the day, it's at 30. So then I put it back up... til the next time when it's low again...

So i've had a few experiences with hatching eggs. Last year I used one of the square styrofoam incubators which holds 41 eggs... and the hatch rate was about half. Twice. That thing is terrible at keeping the humidity levels consistent. Then in late fall, I used one of the Nurture Right 360...

The scale isn't fully trustable, but 6 lbs for the barred and 7 for the white

Okay, so the white rock weighed out about 1 pound more than the barred rock... turns out having more breast meat doesn't always translate to actual weight. They're no jersey giants. Still, these would be excellent dual purpose birds. Here's a pic of comparison

Let's look at the stats. I've got the facts. (Sorry needed to make the reference lol) For years I used organic feed, convinced it was way healthier, putting more faith in that organic label than anything else. In 2023, I started thinking about some things. I'd lost multiple birds for no...

I'll have some pics soon. But I think my biggest concern now is... I'm intending to cross these white birds with a Rhode island red rooster, (they're already together), and hope they come out as red sex links. If they're jersey giants instead of white rocks, will that change that?

Hold on... so you're saying you had black australorps, general weight of like 9lbs for roosters and 7lbs for hens... and the black jersey giants were smaller than that?

I'll be weighing them in the next couple days when time allows. Yeah now that you mention it... I'm looking at breed facts and thinking... they may very well be Jersey Giants. I ordered them from Cackle Hatchery as White Rocks, but they may have substituted as they say they sometimes may have...

I've got barred rocks from the exact same batch, they're not this big, and buff orpingtons right around there, and you know how fluffy those are. It's like, i pick these two up, and the meat on those breasts is like something none of my roosters have, let alone other hens.

These two are laying really well, one even double yolkers on a regular basis. They're about 9 months, and I've got barred rocks and rhode island reds from the exact same batch, even roosters, and none of them have the meat that these two have. I don't have an actual weight, but i'd guess around...

This is a question directed toward any of y'all who have or have had White Rocks, aka White Plymouth Rocks. Right now I have two hens of that breed, and they are way fatter than any of my other birds - even my ROOSTERS of the RIR, Barred Rock, Buff O breeds. I couldn't find any record online...

Indeed, I've gotten used to using a light to increase their daylight at that time of year. Thanks!

So mine are set to start laying about the middle of September. I'm hoping to start incubating some of their eggs just after Thanksgiving. Is it safe to say the hens will be mature enough and the roosters doing their fertilizing job at that point?

8-10 months old, or til theyve been laying for 8-10 months?

Hey! If I have young birds just starting to lay, what's the bare minimum time to let them lay and mature before I can start safely incubating and hatching their eggs? How soon after have y'all started doing so, and how did things turn out?

Well cackle hatchery uses the Delaware for hens to make the red sex links. Interestingly, it seems the Rhode Island Red crossed with Rhode Island White creates the cinnamon queen. The hens are red with white in some areas, while the roosters are a completely different color.

So like RiR rooster with White Rock hen?