We had an inch in the rain gauge this morning, underneath a snow cone of hail, Very grateful for the moisture. I asked for a steady rain—no hail, though.
Somebody's mixing up the request slips... We'll need to do some painting touchup, but no major damage.
Porter's Turkey Color Calculator says they should be Red Bronze Semi-Color. Recessive white can hide all other color genes including the dominant ones. Does your hen have blue or brown eyes?@R2elk
Several months ago, I had a bourbon red tom wander to my place - and long story short - the owners decided to leave him here. Due to pen contraints, this tom was allowed in with my Midget Whites of two hens and a MW tom. One of the hens ended up making a nest out in my garden (surprise!) and she had laid a clutch of 6 eggs. I took them and put the six in the incubator. However, she went back to that nest and laid 4 more eggs - and I let her stay since it was fenced.
Fast forward to now. Of the six in the incubator, 3 were infertile, 2 developed blood rings, 1 hatched. A few days later, I checked on Diamond and she had one leaking rotten egg, one white poult dead in the shell, and one live poult. I disposed of the rotten egg and dead poult, took the live one and put in a brooder and the next day found that the remaining egg she had was gone.
These are the two poults. I think one is now 9 days old and one is 5. What do you expect they may be variety color-wise? (other than barnyard turkeys - I get that lol).
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I also now have 3 blue slates, 3 lavenders, 1 black; 10 MW poults, a juvenile bourbon red hen and 2 bourbon red poults (bought eggs), and a year old MW tom to replace my Cooper tom, along with my original Tommie Tucker Turkey and Ironsides. It's starting to look like a turkey farm here.
Geeze - as many times as I have been eyeball to eyeball, I think the eyes are blue, but won't swear to that!
Blue eyes mean they are black based while brown eyes mean they are bronze based. Green eyes probably mean one black gene and one bronze gene.
Thank you so much, @R2elk . I hadn't really paid any attention until someone asked me why I had bred the MW hen to one of my Narragansetts - all the while knowing they had never been in the same pen and no possibility of an "accident".
You do the best that you can and that is all that anyone can ask of you.Thank you so much, @R2elk . I hadn't really paid any attention until someone asked me why I had bred the MW hen to one of my Narragansetts - all the while knowing they had never been in the same pen and no possibility of an "accident".
It goes without saying that I am not the most observant tool in the box - especially when there are several unrelated but multiple projects going on here (and not necessarily involving me at all - but still "here").
Then there is the little fact that my sister once again showered me with 10 bearded silkies,3 olive eggers, 4 blue eggers (all small chicks), along with the MW tom, 2 young MW poults, and a 10 day old MW poult. For my birthday. Yay me!
Keeping things straight is sometimes a losing battle.......just saying. lol
I let her out this morning and she seemed better! Slept really nice, didn't make a noise at all last night. She just perched on the back of my computer chair lol. Still keeping an eye on her though.
