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It has been a bad year for predators. We had significant losses as well.

Stay warm,
Christie
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CRYSTALCREEK said:
Hi Clare, sounds like an awesome plan. I'm going to make some more splits too after I get some pure blacks grown out. If you look at those chicks at day 12, the fast feather females will have about an inch of tail growth and you can select for that too, while you're at it. If you already have the fast feather, let me know what those male offspring look like at various stages of development because I haven't keep anything that doesn't have an inch of growth, to avoid confusion. Keep us posted!

If you don't mind hatching on different days of the week you can set every nine days. When you set the new eggs, the last set is ready to candle at nine days, and the set before that is ready for lockdown at 18 days; easy peasy and less fiddling with the incubator. I keep mine 14 days on the kitchen cabinet without paying much attention to temp or humidity without any loss in hatchability, so nine days of storage is no problem.

In horses, when you have one line that crosses well on another and produces outstanding offspring, it is called a "nick". Mr Yella Fella nicks on Obvious Conclusion daughters, as an example. I think the Shaffer birds nick on the Smith hens. Just a little theory I have...nothing scientific or anything....
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I am setting Cochin eggs too, which aren't quite as hardy as the Ams. I may even set twice a week. I use a separate incubator for hatching. I have a good candler so I can check at day 5-6 and toss the non-starters. I watched tail growth last year and culled everything I though was slow.
 
I'll ask over here too....cuz I haven't gotten an answer yet....

Can an adult Roo get Wry neck?

My Lav Ameruacana roo (approx 2 years old) is staring at the ceiling. He can still eat, walk and drink....can't stay on the roost tho. His neck is twisted around.

I know how to treat Wry neck, but I don't want to give him toxic doses of vitamins if Adult birds don't get wry neck from vitamin deficiencies....

I don't have a picture, cuz he won't pose with his head resting on his back, he acts normal when someone is looking. I do want to treat him if adults can develop wry neck because he is my FAVORITE roo and I don't want to lose him. He eats layer feed, commerical scratch grains and any leftovers from my lunch the hens won't eat (at his insistance)

There are other roos in the coop...both are larger than he is...and we have recently started to have snow, so NO ONE is going out in that evil stuff, so there is a lot of coop time, with the door shut.
He might have gotten his neck injured from a disagreement with one of the other roos. He is Alpha, but that is subject to change as the 2 cockerals come into their own and possibly give him a run for his money. This "symptom" developed kinda suddenly....but not over night.

Thanks for any light you can shed on this problem.
 

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