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I guess I'm confused now (nothing new) - greetings all, just read through the 20 pages I had waiting for a quiet morning to catch up here
- so in this cross, if the male is a BO and the female is a BR wouldn't the black chicks be male? Or only if they had the spot on the back of their heads? I'll have to go read that page on sexlinks. Do you happen to know, would a cross using a Dominique instead of a Barred Rock behave the same or are the genetics different?
Someone posted a pic of two chicks on around page 890 I think? Asking if anyone could tell or guess male/female - the picture is tough because we can't see the comb of the bird on the right. If I had to guess based on leg size I would say left is female, right is male, but I am terrible at guessing gender on chicks
I turned a 4x6 pen in my coop into a big brooder and have some really happy chicks in there - bought the heater plates Premier has along with covers, left a heat lamp over the patio blocks the waterer is on to ensure they would drink, they are doing great.
I have had a hatch every weekend, all my NYD chicks were sold a week later which is fine, that's what they were hatched for. I have one hatch that is 3 weeks old I'm keeping for the moment, growing the chicks out to see what I want to keep - Silkies, Legbars, Lav over Black Ameraucanas, and a few EEs - then the hatch after that I decided to grow a few weeks also because even though the chicks are mixes some are really pretty colors. I have 17 chicks just hatched Friday and 13 hatched the previous Saturday that I'll sell, but the weather here has been as dreadful as everywhere else - lows below zero three nights running last week, finally topped freezing on Friday for a few hours and hit the high 50s yesterday, today back to low 30s. No sense trying to get people to come here and buy young chicks until it warms up a little more. They don't eat much, and I can spend hours watching them run around and flap their tiny wings
I don't know, to me there just hasn't been a time yet that a chick running around feeling energetic hasn't been an absolute delight.
Edited for spelling - touch = tough
