This is my experiment. I was taught by and older breeder some chicken genetics and how to sex eggs for selection before setting and it works. I took a more rounded blunt white silkie egg. I only have 2 white silkies and 20 barred rock hens and 1 barred rock rooster 3rd generation selected for...
I can prove that wrong. See my other post made today with what I was taught and still did not believe til I did exactly the same experiment and i have included photos, and reseach quotes on how I proved it. You can try it yourself or not. But it was exactly as an expert self taught breeder...
Now to add to this. Egg sexing by shape. If u read all this you know this is the hen and hatch of 9. Here is what I did as told me by my father-in- law who was licensed to raise doves and quail as well as whitetail deer. He was well self educated in poultry genetics by experimentation. I did not...
I am new here and started to discuss this. This is an update of my experiment cross with photo. It is a pullet that I hand sexed the egg. Previously discussed and will prove beyound a doubt you can sex eggs by shape. It will be in a seperate post as I have photos and a lengthy explanation. So...
I have had several much larger, 2 hen laid one everday. Then they died, I suspect egg bound but not sure. Maybe egg broke insid or maybe a weasel got in but I find it strange that both died laying huge single yolk eggs. Not even double yolks!
70 grams on this larger one my average size is 60 grams barred rocks. I have barred rocks and have had a few bigger than 70 grams. Just for fun I took a photo of an old Zenith egg grader. The numbers represent number of ounces for a dozen of all one size eggs.
Yes it is a pair of guineas. They free roam everday for about 12 hours and follow chickens back into their fenced in yard and go into coop every night to be closed in for safety.
my barred rock rooster and his harem included 2 white silkies. This was spring and had to keep them penned in their yard til I repaired my garden fence that a spring bear squashed. Now they are happy foragers for 12 hours a day!
the little black one lower right is the white silkie/ barred rock cross. I can tell because it is half the size as barred rocks hatched in the batch and it has black legsfeet like mother silkie hen. It has a tiny tuf of white on head. The other 8 chicks are purebred barred rocks, all 9 eggs...
I have a white silkie hen and only a barred rock rooster, she hatched 8 barred rock eggs and one of her own eggs. chicks are mostly black, the little chick I assume is the silkie barred rock cross as it is much smaller as was the egg. At first glance it is all black. Hoping it is a hen as I used...