Bird Parentage Testing Kit?

[Chris09]

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If you are a "Huge Hatchery" then you should know that 40 roosters is way to many roosters for 60 hens.
If you are a "Huge Hatchery" why don't you have your Web page posted?

I have read your BYC page and some of your past posts and you really don't sound like a "Huge Hatchery" to me.


Chris

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Ah, youthful enthusiasm...

 

[NYREDS]

In your first post you said "when I start my Hatchery". In a later post you have a "Huge Hatchery". Which is it? Could you post some pics of your flocks of 40 "roos" & 60 hens? I'm sure we'd all like to see them.

 

[bigchicken2]

I have lots of birds. I don't have a hatchery yet. I have some chickens in pens and some free-ranging.

 

[BekahBear]

I will need it when I start my hatchery tho.

I don't have a backyard hatchery. I have a HUGE hatchery with 100 birds per pen not 100 birds in all.

I have lots of birds. I don't have a hatchery yet

okay, i'm sorry, but nothing that you say adds up. one minute you have a "hatchery" then the next minute you dont. you either have one or you don't. my personal guess is that you dont. it just doesn't sound like you have enough experience to have one.

when it comes to the DNA test kit you are asking about, i do not believe something like that exists. there would be no need to know exactly what parents the chicks come from if the birds are kept together in large groups..especially if the groups are all one breed.
if you do have a need to know what parents your chicks are coming from you will need to separate your chickens into breeding pairs so that you know for a fact that any chicks you get are from that pairing only. that is the only way i know of that will let you know exactly who the parents are

I have more than one roo in each pen. I have 40 roos and 60 hens per pen

i agree with everyone else on this one. your ratio of roos to hens is WAY off. you only need 1 roo for every 10 or so hens. that many roos in a pen together with so few hens will cause a lot of stress on everyone involved. it really is not a good situation for any of them. the hens will get over-bred and get worn down by so many roos, and the roos will fight with each other over who gets the hens because there are not enough of them to go around.

like the others have said aswell, if you have a "hatchery" or are planning on having one in the future, it is a poor business decision to have so many roos. you only need a fraction of the roos that you mentioned to make sure that your hens are laying fertile eggs. why pay for feed and upkeep for so many roos that are never going to give you anything in return. it just sounds like a lot of wasted time, effort and money to me.

this is just my 2 cents​

 

[Chris09]

Did you go on a buying spree since 06/07/2010 2:43 am when you posted --
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[dsqard]

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Chris

 

[Bunnylady]

Frankly, I don't care how many birds you do or don't have, or what your plans are. I'm interested in addressing the matter of DNA testing. I know it is possible to DNA test birds(the only way that I am aware of is a blood test), but I have no idea whether anyone has come up with any kind of test that is available to the public.

DNA testing is commonly done in some animals, and is actually a requirement for registration for some breeds. In the case of horses, you send in a hair sample. It isn't the hair itself that is tested, it's the little tiny clump of tissue that sticks to the "root" of the hair when it is pulled out. When the test is done, it compares the sample to samples taken from the (supposed) parents, and says, "yes, there is a good probability that this animal came from this parent," or "it is highly unlikely that this animal came from this one!" You have to have the parents' DNA "fingerprints" on file, the person doing the test then compares the baby's DNA to that of the adults, and decides whether there is enough similarity to make it likely that they are related.

You can't just take a sample and expect it to tell you who the father is, you have to have a sample from the possible fathers to compare the sample to, and then pick the closest match as the likeliest one. If the possible fathers are closely related to each other, you may have more than one that the tests say are probably the father. The same is true for the mothers. And if you have a mother in one group that is related to a father in another group, and vice versa, the test probably wouldn't be able to tell you which pairing the youngster came from, just that it was closely related to those potential parents. Unless a large amount of control is exercised over just who has access to whom, the exact pedigree of any particular offspring can't be known for sure.

 

[hinkjc]

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As a reminder, I have quoted the topic of this thread. Please stay on topic. If you have helpful advice or know of something, feel free to post. Off topic posts moving forward will be removed.

 

[cubalaya]

edited by moderation to remove off topic discussion.