A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[rjohns39]

@rjohns39 What kind of chicks are those? They sure are cute!

A mix of Rhode Island White, Delaware and Isabelle leghorn. I think mostly Del's. The white shells are ILs. There's at least one RIW. The rest are Dels.

 

[Finnie]

Then it must be the Delawares I think are cute with the little stripes.

 

[Finnie]

Then it must be the Delawares I think are cute with the little stripes.

Hm, nope. Just looked them up, and they are solid yellow as chicks.

 

[Finnie]

Must be the ILs, but I thought those stripes were more grey-silvery looking.

 

[Finnie]

Ralphie, I think my green egg laying Cream Legbars that I sold out of were carrying recessive white! I only kept one CL pullet from last year, and I hatched out only one of her eggs before I sold her. The rooster dad to this egg was her half brother, a dominant white CL-EE hybrid. So they both came from my original CL rooster, in my avatar. I expected this chick to be dominant white, like his dad. But he turned out pure snow white! (Every dominant white I've had so far has had color leakage, especially the red shoulders.)

Here is little Conrad, who made his first little squeaky attempts at crowing this morning:

He is 75% cream Legbar and 25% Easter Egger. He has a tiny crest starting.

 

[Finnie]

Ok, now that I've hijacked the thread enough with talk about chickens, here are some poult photos to make up for it.

Red bronze and blue red bronze. Does anyone see the difference in the wing markings of the two in the last photo? From the parents, Bourbon red tom over blue palm hen, I was only expecting two colors of poults. But I am also getting two distinctly different striping patterns. Some have perfectly horizontal bars across each wing and tail feather, and others have lengthwise, zig zaggy, almost static-y looking stripes. It almost makes me wonder if one or both of the parents are carrying some impure gene that BR and RPs are not supposed to be carrying. (Which is very possible with heritage turkeys.)

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie, I think my green egg laying Cream Legbars that I sold out of were carrying recessive white! I only kept one CL pullet from last year, and I hatched out only one of her eggs before I sold her. The rooster dad to this egg was her half brother, a dominant white CL-EE hybrid. So they both came from my original CL rooster, in my avatar. I expected this chick to be dominant white, like his dad. But he turned out pure snow white! (Every dominant white I've had so far has had color leakage, especially the red shoulders.)

Here is little Conrad, who made his first little squeaky attempts at crowing this morning:
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He is 75% cream Legbar and 25% Easter Egger. He has a tiny crest starting.

I am not sure about this.

Chicken Genetics is more complicated than turkey genetics, or at least it is to me.

When I use the color calculator for turkeys, I get results expected. When I try to predict chicken results I get fooled more often than not.

I use as an example, a CLB rooster I hatched last year. He had a pea comb. This is impossible in every genetics book or article you read on combs. There was no way this can happen according to the experts. My CLB birds had been locked in a pen and run for over a year. Nothing got out or in, they never free ranged. Unless, Holm did AI on the hen or they did it through the fence it did not happen..

I am am not willing to say whether you had the white gene or not. I am going to ask my good friend and the smartest man I know on chicken genetics to read your post...Hopefully Jerry will post a reply here..

 

[Molpet]

I am not sure about this.

Chicken Genetics is more complicated than turkey genetics, or at least it is to me.

When I use the color calculator for turkeys, I get results expected. When I try to predict chicken results I get fooled more often than not.

I use as an example, a CLB rooster I hatched last year. He had a pea comb. This is impossible in every genetics book or article you read on combs. There was no way this can happen according to the experts. My CLB birds had been locked in a pen and run for over a year. Nothing got out or in, they never free ranged. Unless, Holm did AI on the hen or they did it through the fence it did not happen..

I am am not willing to say whether you had the white gene or not. I am going to ask my good friend and the smartest man I know on chicken genetics to read your post...Hopefully Jerry will post a reply here..

The poultry Faerie brought you a mystery chick ... maybe a pea comb too

I just have the predator faerie drops off possums and such .. that faerie has a wheeled vehicle though
and whatever faerie that misplaces stuff visits too often since I am getting older

 

[duluthralphie]

The poultry Faerie brought you a mystery chick ... maybe a pea comb too

I just have the predator faerie drops off possums and such .. that faerie has a wheeled vehicle though
and whatever faerie that misplaces stuff visits too often since I am getting older

I gave the pea comb to Jerry, I did not want it...He fed it to a coon.

 

[JRNash]

I am not sure about this.

Chicken Genetics is more complicated than turkey genetics, or at least it is to me.

When I use the color calculator for turkeys, I get results expected. When I try to predict chicken results I get fooled more often than not.

I use as an example, a CLB rooster I hatched last year. He had a pea comb. This is impossible in every genetics book or article you read on combs. There was no way this can happen according to the experts. My CLB birds had been locked in a pen and run for over a year. Nothing got out or in, they never free ranged. Unless, Holm did AI on the hen or they did it through the fence it did not happen..

I am am not willing to say whether you had the white gene or not. I am going to ask my good friend and the smartest man I know on chicken genetics to read your post...Hopefully Jerry will post a reply here..

Ralph,I pay attention when people with experience talk. The good ones come to their knowledge through trial and error. If you say you got a CLB with a pea comb then just as sure as God made little green apples IT IS POSSIBLE. The experts are quick to say what is and isn't possible. I put forth "Ugly Chicken" my avatar. We don't have a clue what might pop out. A general idea,yes. A certainty NO.