I kept her even though I suspect some Polish in her background. Her Dad is lengthy. Her toes number 4 and she has a ridge in her comb. Is this considered a Morehead Grey?
The straight comb is recessive in the RIW. It happens. Cackle purchased its R.I.W steaight combs as culls from R.I.W breeders working on bringing back the breed.
I inquired with Cackle Hatchery. A hatchery with a history of purchasing breeding stock from quality breeders of several different breeds.
I asked about this not a real breed business. Turns out the R.I.W steaight comb stock are culls that hatched with a straight comb. Which if you look at what...
The markings more than the obvious DQ.I need to start with what color is more desirable. Then move through the DQs. I have to girls from the Crele roo. One has a kinky comb the other does not. Finding a male in AK is tough with 2 breeders here. One place has a mess of males they are growing out...
I was looking at those and when I saw Leghorn I realized it was a waste of males. Currently working on a dual purpose layer of bright green. The hybrid is handy as they mature faster and have superior thrivability.
I have been told that after the first cross the egg production drops alot. That the best thing to do is just get a Leghorn roo and add him to a flock of pure AM hens. Eat the males and keep the hens for layers. I am using a dual purpose breed in my AM hybrid project so the males are meatier. LH...
My rearch tells me that Delwares and white rocks are fast growing dual purpose birds. I grew out a dozen cornish crosses last fall. The hens were great. I detected an odor while butchering the males and the meat tasted like that. Maybe 10 weeks was to long. I cannot find a hatchery to sex them...
So this little one hatched from my BBS/Paint flock. Grampa was a blue cream looking bird that popped up in a paryridge flock. As a chick it was orange and blue. Not Splash or blue. Can self blue come from creamblue?
I don't leave them in the bator either. A ten gallon tank makes a nice ambient draft free clean brood for the first few days. My incubator is gross after a few days of hatching if they are left and I worry about belly infections
Can a breeder of Blue Creams post a picture of new chicks?
I have hatched a few oddly shadded wild marked chicks in the past that turned into what people are calling blue creams.
I have Silkies. I hatched 50 in my bator. They hatched on day 19. I thought I needed a new thermostat. Then the broody hens hatched theirs on day 19 too. I know exactly when theirs were due. I had tried to break them and finally gave up and gave them eggs.
Mother is black. Gramma is black f1 sizzle with teeny white spits on tips of poof Grampa blue Wheaton silkie. Dad is Black Silkie. So baby is 7/8 silkie and possibly mottled?
I am fermenting Scratch and Peck non GMO organic broiler feed for my Cornish Crosses. They turned 8 weeks yesterday and the average weight is 9.875 lbs live! They eat 12 on 12 off, no deaths, no lameness, no illness. They wander all over the place and sleep in a fabric greenhouse. I live in...