I.....have..... BABIES!!!!!!! One SPW and one that I believe can only be Ozzie and my CA Grey's. Now I need to know if Delaware over a cuckoo pattern with cuckoo patterned parents would produce a sexlink and would the boys have the head spot? Because that is what this is looking like. Plus he is such a BOY...pecking at mama's eyes trampling the little SPW boldy going where no chick has gone before...that sort of thing. I also have a pip in another SPW egg and maybe more but that was all I could see. at the time. Hoping for a Del Baby and a couple more SPWs but I thought about it last night and decided for me anyway, the excitement and fun of going through a hatch is well worth the 35.00 spent on shipped eggs regardless of the result. I have spent that on an evening at the movies with much less satisfaction. Even if I had ended up with nothing, looking back it was fun just to think about and dream about the potential and there will ALWAYS be more chickens ya know...especially if you spend time on this thread. I took a juice lid full of scrambled egg out to the coop and settled in to watch. The babies are still too young though but Beakface ate till she was fulll so that made me happy I had done it. The little black one came out from under her for a bit but really didn't know what to do with the egg. I am off tomorrow and headed over to pick up two SGD girls from Kim so happy happiness in my little corner of chicken world and I will be able to watch and wonder at these new babies.
I agree completely about the cost entertainment value. Justificiation for chicken mathnis what this thread needs. Haha! I am glad she ate. Can you imagine sitting there like that for 72 hours?!? I had one Polish I thought for sure was a boy. Charging my hand at day 2 and pushing everyone around. She is the prettiest girl I have.
Zoo I am glad you figured out what it was and where it was. What a bummer all around.
On a side note, I got a three egg day today! New layer of a small white egg. Reminds me of a polish egg but I don't know what Millie Fleur Leghorn eggs look like. Anyone know the general size and shape of MFL eggs? I am still guessing Polish because it was pretty small but I can't find any new squatters.
Usually the momma will call them over to eat and makes a high pitched "come and get it" sound. Perhaps they don't need any food yet - and I am sure Beakface was starved because lockdown is 3 days and not moving even to eat or drink.
And yeah, I always have one adventuresome one that likes to sit on momma and pick at momma.. but since these are broody chicks I didn't mark them to find out if they are actually male. One I think was a female - she is still full of sass!
Thanks for your advice on this. I think you are right that they don't need food yet. The little black one just stood in the juice lid full of eggs, then crumble. The SPW looked confused by the whole idea. Mama though was happy to get some calories!
I just read this http://www2.ca.uky.edu/smallflocks/sex_linked_crosses.html and it indicated that a Barred girl with a non barred boy would throw black girl babies and barred boy babies. Would the same be true for cuckoo to non cuckoo which is the parentage of my little back baby. I would be thrilled if it were a girl!
Reposting this...sorry, I just didn't want it to get lost at the bottom of the page like they sometimes do. I know breeding Blanche, my CA grey to the NH roo would give me a black sex link but I couldn't figure out what her and the Oz man would produce.
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I don't know genetics of cuckoo... but if it contains barred .. well I am still confused because I thought the cuckoo girls had a little dot and the males have a big one? No clue crossing genetics like that... and I don't know what the CA grey genetics are based on at all to even guess if it would still work. Sorry
Zoo I am glad you figured out what it was and where it was. What a bummer all around.
On a side note, I got a three egg day today! New layer of a small white egg. Reminds me of a polish egg but I don't know what Millie Fleur Leghorn eggs look like. Anyone know the general size and shape of MFL eggs? I am still guessing Polish because it was pretty small but I can't find any new squatters.
All girls have their own "shape" and it isn't always based on breed, but I would guess leghorns will lean more towards torpedoes and Wyandottes towards golf balls - but my Polish is also torpedo and my Silkies are all over the map... and first eggs are usually much smaller than later eggs. I have one teeny first egg I kept from my small bantam - to look at it you would think it was a fart egg but I candled it and it has a yolk - I ate the later ones and they all had yolks too.
Go look at hind ends - layers will have loose "lips" and non-layers will have tight "lips"
Reposting this...sorry, I just didn't want it to get lost at the bottom of the page like they sometimes do. I know breeding Blanche, my CA grey to the NH roo would give me a black sex link but I couldn't figure out what her and the Oz man would produce.
Do a search for breed crosses that make sex links. There are lot of them. Some work better though--some will make good egg laying hens and other will not.
Both auto sexing and sex link makes sense to me if you either plan on only selling pullets and keeping the boys to process later or destroying the boys at hatch. If you are not selling the pullets, then a good dual purpose breed that breeds true seems like a better choice to me.
Zoo I am glad you figured out what it was and where it was. What a bummer all around.
On a side note, I got a three egg day today! New layer of a small white egg. Reminds me of a polish egg but I don't know what Millie Fleur Leghorn eggs look like. Anyone know the general size and shape of MFL eggs? I am still guessing Polish because it was pretty small but I can't find any new squatters.
All girls have their own "shape" and it isn't always based on breed, but I would guess leghorns will lean more towards torpedoes and Wyandottes towards golf balls - but my Polish is also torpedo and my Silkies are all over the map... and first eggs are usually much smaller than later eggs. I have one teeny first egg I kept from my small bantam - to look at it you would think it was a fart egg but I candled it and it has a yolk - I ate the later ones and they all had yolks too.
Go look at hind ends - layers will have loose "lips" and non-layers will have tight "lips"
Hoping for a Del Baby and a couple more SPWs but I thought about it last night and decided for me anyway, the excitement and fun of going through a hatch is well worth the 35.00 spent on shipped eggs regardless of the result. I have spent that on an evening at the movies with much less satisfaction. Even if I had ended up with nothing, looking back it was fun just to think about and dream about the potential and there will ALWAYS be more chickens ya know...especially if you spend time on this thread.
I took a juice lid full of scrambled egg out to the coop and settled in to watch. The babies are still too young though but Beakface ate till she was fulll so that made me happy I had done it. The little black one came out from under her for a bit but really didn't know what to do with the egg. I am off tomorrow and headed over to pick up two SGD girls from Kim so happy happiness in my little corner of chicken world and I will be able to watch and wonder at these new babies.
