➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

Quick stupid question while I’m out with the chicks. Are barred rocks sexable as chicks? Like sex links? Or could mine still potentially be cockerels?

Head spots.

 

[Tesumph]

So.. this is a pullet.. right?

The two BR’s are so much tinier than the others and so full of spunk. Their new thing is jumping on the human elevators to get to the higher bug corners.

 

[Tesumph]

Um, yeah... about that. Light a fire under me.

I’ll draw that rooster today if you finish your tree vortex today.

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...wtf am I looking at?

 

[The Golden Egg5]

Do people have air conditioning there?

No, some do, but most of us don’t. Mostly the people with a bunch of money have air conditioning. We have a bunch of people with second homes up here where they come for vacation or for the summer, and those are the people with the air conditioning. Those of us who stay year round focus more on heating

 

[R2elk]

What ever he is, IF my hen is a Bronze, and IF him or the supposed to be nari bred her.... according to porter's calculator I shouldn't be getting poults that are yellow and developing white w/ black and reddish.

One of the possible results from a Calico tom and a Bronze hen is a Golden Narragansett hen. Unfortunately Porter's does not have their Narragansett poult image up at this time.

Golden Narragansett poults

Because the Narragansett gene is a sex linked gene, the possible results are Narragansett Semi-Color Semi-Gray and Golden Narragansett hens and Bronze Semi-Color Semi-Gray and Red Bronze toms.

The fact that the other poult you got was a Red Bronze tom really points to your tom being a Calico since the red gene obviously is in the originating flock.

 

[Molpet]

One of the possible results from a Calico tom and a Bronze hen is a Golden Narragansett hen. Unfortunately Porter's does not have their Narragansett poult image up at this time.

Because the Narragansett gene is a sex linked gene, the possible results are Narragansett Semi-Color Semi-Gray and Golden Narragansett hens and Bronze Semi-Color Semi-Gray and Red Bronze toms.

The fact that the other poult you got was a Red Bronze tom really points to your tom being a Calico since the red gene obviously is in the originating flock.

This is what the oldest poults looked like a week or so ago

 

[R2elk]

This is what the oldest poults looked like a week or so ago

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Looks like 2 Calico poults and a Red Bronze poult.

 

[CSAchook]

Thanks! I did not know this! He certainly is beautiful

 

[Molpet]

Looks like 2 Calico poults and a Red Bronze poult.

I wonder if the red bronze was the dad...her hen saddle was dirty before I processed him.. and before she was laying... Still shouldn't have calico poults
Same poults younger

 

[Molpet]

the poults from last year before I got them. The reddish one was the red bronze. I got one of the bronze looking ones and one of the whiteish