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I got a little over an inch out of this last system. That was the first significant rain for who knows how long and is pretty much gone already. That's not enough for the farmers to get another cutting of hay but maybe it will help bring the pastures back a little so they can stop feeding hay for a while. It sure did not put any water in the ponds I can see that are running dry.

I keep track of rainfall on my calendar but I'm too discouraged to go look up the last significant rain. I think it was early May. Now they are predicting well into triple digits for a while.

It's going to be a long August.
 
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We have had to water our garden, but as you can see in the background, ours is looking good.

I took this photo yesterday as Catherine and Nicole were talking to Annabel. We have now weaned her from Jasmine. In a week or so we will pasture them together again.We have also found a registered Boer buck for Jasmine this fall.Its a bit slower than hatching eggs, but goat math is very similar to chicken math.

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Hey guys, I'm in Little Rock, and we mostly just keep enough chickens to satisfy our families egg needs, along w/me loving them as pets, but we have 4 RIR hens and only one of them has been laying like in the past 6+months, 2 of them are molting I think, & the leader chicken isn't laying at all, I think she's past the laying age, we bought them over a year ago & I think the seller was lying about their ages.

We're hoping our 5 lil wynadotte pullets will add to our egg production pretty soon, but that won't be for a couple months. We're keeping our lil cockeral w/whom I still refer to as a girl LOL, named Pinky all along...he hasn't started crowing yet (not that my brother's complaining) b/c they're right below his window haha....

I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to mix golden laced wynadottes w/leghorns?, would you get a type of silver laced? just curious...since we might try to let one of our hens set on eggs eventually.
 
What I'd expect you to get with a Gold Laced rooster over a White Leghorn hen is all white chicks. That leghorns coloring should dominate for one generation if your leghorns are purebreds.

Now if you cross the chicks with each other or back to one of your gold laced chickens, you can get different colors and patterns, some of which might surprise you, but silver laced is not one of them.
 
outdoorsii said:
Hey guys, I'm in Little Rock, and we mostly just keep enough chickens to satisfy our families egg needs, along w/me loving them as pets, but we have 4 RIR hens and only one of them has been laying like in the past 6+months, 2 of them are molting I think, & the leader chicken isn't laying at all, I think she's past the laying age, we bought them over a year ago & I think the seller was lying about their ages.

We're hoping our 5 lil wynadotte pullets will add to our egg production pretty soon, but that won't be for a couple months. We're keeping our lil cockeral w/whom I still refer to as a girl LOL, named Pinky all along...he hasn't started crowing yet (not that my brother's complaining) b/c they're right below his window haha....

I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to mix golden laced wynadottes w/leghorns?, would you get a type of silver laced? just curious...since we might try to let one of our hens set on eggs eventually.
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Ridgerunner said:
What I'd expect you to get with a Gold Laced rooster over a White Leghorn hen is all white chicks. That leghorns coloring should dominate for one generation if your leghorns are purebreds.

Now if you cross the chicks with each other or back to one of your gold laced chickens, you can get different colors and patterns, some of which might surprise you, but silver laced is not one of them.
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Actually they would get:

50% Pullets, black patterned gold incomplete laced
50% Cockerels, black patterned gold incomplete laced

Per http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator
 
Jim, you can make white many different ways, but I think Leghorns are commonly dominant white on extended black. I could be wrong on that. I am wrong way too often. My memory is not as good as I think it used to be. Two recessive whites might be used for the white. It might be both dominant white and recessive white. Silver might be in that mix too, but I don't think so. A lot of things can hide under white.

It's always fun to cross chickens and see what you actually get. They are not always purebreds and a lot of unexpected things can show up. But try running that calculator with dominant white and see what you get.

The only way to know for sure is to breed them.

I'd really love to find a site that has the typical genetics for specific breeds. I have found some information but that type of information is usually real hard to find. If you have one, I'd love a link.
 
Ridgerunner said:
Jim, you can make white many different ways, but I think Leghorns are commonly dominant white on extended black. I could be wrong on that. I am wrong way too often. My memory is not as good as I think it used to be. Two recessive whites might be used for the white. It might be both dominant white and recessive white. Silver might be in that mix too, but I don't think so. A lot of things can hide under white.

It's always fun to cross chickens and see what you actually get. They are not always purebreds and a lot of unexpected things can show up. But try running that calculator with dominant white and see what you get.

The only way to know for sure is to breed them.

I'd really love to find a site that has the typical genetics for specific breeds. I have found some information but that type of information is usually real hard to find. If you have one, I'd love a link.
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Well, the chicken calculator is NEVER wrong! (Except when its wrong). I was wrong once, but then realized I was just mistaken!

The chicken calculator is something fun to work with. However, real life will always teach you more. There are some genetics that are more dominate than others.

outdoorsii did not say if their Leghorn was White. That would change the calculator a lot. True, the only way to tell for sure is to breed them.

Here is another thought. See if you can trade the Leghorn for a Wyandotte cockerel.
 

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