16 eggs, 3 species, 1 homemade incubator: Will it be done?

[Cyprus]

I'd give it 12 hours from now to see what it can do on its own. If there is no progress, I would dive in more aggressively.

Okay

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Corrections to your assumptions.

For a red sexlink you need a red rooster over white hens.

For black sex link you need solid colored (non-dominant white) male over barred females.

Ok..
I have a buckeye roo over a white silkie. Any chances I may be able to tell?

Sorry I missed the hatch. How many do you have?

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Molly lost another baby.

It was another of the babies she hatched. No signs of any violence, no pasty butt, just dead. They all looked great earlier today. I wonder if the babies dying is caused residual by bacteria from the exploded egg.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Yay the guinea eggs are hatching. On another note for some reason I'm not getting notifications through the app anymore I used to no every time some one commented on the threads I was watching but not any more.

I started just checking my watched threads... alerts are unreliable.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Ok..
I have a buckeye roo over a white silkie. Any chances I may be able to tell?

Sorry I missed the hatch. How many do you have?

It depends, are your silkies dominant white? You could do a test hatch and see.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

It depends, are your silkies dominant white? You could do a test hatch and see.

Don't know what you mean by dominant white.
I'm a total newbie when it comes to chicken genetics.

 

[itspebbl]

There are 2 types of white, dominant white (W) and recessive white(w)
If they have dominant white, the coloration of the feathers are white, but the genetics for other colorations(I'm just gonna call it x) are with them, so if you cross 2 dominant white birds, you will get 25% WW (white birds with no hidden colors), 50% Wx (white birds carrying other colors, hidden), and 25% xx (birds of the color hidden beneath the dominant white). Since the birds with dominant white could be carrying other colors, they cannot be used in reliable sex-link breeding.
Sorry if this is confusing!!

 

[Redhead Rae]

Don't know what you mean by dominant white.
I'm a total newbie when it comes to chicken genetics.

White can show up with any number of genes. Dominant white (best displayed in the white leghorn), recessive white (not sure of which breeds have this) and Silver (Delaware and white rocks, I think) are three of them. Dominant white covers every thing, which is why is doesn’t work for sex links.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Hmmm
No idea with this hen, as I got her when she was about 8 months old.

I've tried feather sexing, but it's tough to do with buckeyes, and right now, other than feathered feet and light fuzz they're showing mostly buckeye traits. IF I'm actually getting sex links and the feather sexing is working, I've got 2 girls. 2 more pipped, so hopefully that will help me determine if the white is dominant or not.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

There are 2 types of white, dominant white (W) and recessive white(w)
If they have dominant white, the coloration of the feathers are white, but the genetics for other colorations(I'm just gonna call it x) are with them, so if you cross 2 dominant white birds, you will get 25% WW (white birds with no hidden colors), 50% Wx (white birds carrying other colors, hidden), and 25% xx (birds of the color hidden beneath the dominant white). Since the birds with dominant white could be carrying other colors, they cannot be used in reliable sex-link breeding.
Sorry if this is confusing!!

Actually, that made total sense to me.