Blue Laced Red Wyandotte THREAD!

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Ok, so another silly question.....

Straight combs do pop up occasionally, yes? Are those dominant and therefore should be culled? But birds can be "purebred" wys with straight combs? There is a lady near me who is selling off 10 hens and 2 roos.......all "BLRWs" but they have straight combs. I need some more laying birds for eating eggs, and she is selling them SUPER cheap soI am going to pick them up this afternoon. But I am assuming that it would be a bad idea to put a couple in with my breeding pens?

Am learning here, be gentle. LOL! (And yes, they will be Q'd!)
 
ChickenPox said:
Ok, so another silly question.....

Straight combs do pop up occasionally, yes? Are those dominant and therefore should be culled? But birds can be "purebred" wys with straight combs? There is a lady near me who is selling off 10 hens and 2 roos.......all "BLRWs" but they have straight combs. I need some more laying birds for eating eggs, and she is selling them SUPER cheap soI am going to pick them up this afternoon. But I am assuming that it would be a bad idea to put a couple in with my breeding pens?

Am learning here, be gentle. LOL! (And yes, they will be Q'd!)
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Straight combs are recessive, so for the ones you are getting they are carrying 2 copies of a straight comb gene. They will make just fine layers however I would not add them to your breeder flock. Once a straight comb gene is in your flock it can be very hard to get rid of.

You can use them to check if any of your breeders are carrying the straight comb gene. You do that by breeding your breeders to the straight comb and looking at the chicks. If one chick has a straight comb your breeder is carrying the gene. It may take a few hatchings to find that out. however if you hatch say 10 or 15 and none have a straight comb your chance that your breeder is carrying the gene is low, however all of those chicks will be caring that gene. The best way to do this is to know which egg came from which hen, so you'll have to separate the hens and move the cock around to each girl, or use trap nesting or some other method to identify your eggs. If you ask me it is more pain that it is worth.
 
CashandTracy said:
I got them from Max Strawn (MStrawan3 I think) he is also on the Ameraucana thread. I'm going to breed them but I won't be ready to start shipping for a year or two.
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Ooh, that is where ours came from! Aren't they great?! We got a few nice chicks out of our breedi gs this year :) my daughter showed a pair at our fair. And they got first!
 
cuties said:
Ooh, that is where ours came from! Aren't they great?! We got a few nice chicks out of our breedi gs this year
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my daughter showed a pair at our fair. And they got first!
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I love them. We had 4 people approach us about chicks at the fair and the judge was just in love with her. I can't wait to raise some.
 

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