California - Northern

[Kaylish]

Probably not at 11 weeks.

I am surprised the hen was willing. He must be quite a Casanova that boy. I am fairly sure I read something about 19 to 21 weeks old.

Wait three days or so and check the yolk on an egg to see if you see a bulls eye on the embryo. If they look fertile, start collecting eggs for a week and then run a test incubation.

LOL! I was too. She's the boss out of my 3 hatchery girls. But she's never seen a boy before so....
So Sunday morning breakfast will be bullseye check. They would be black sex-link right? BCM roo over barred rock hen?

 

[ronott1]

LOL! I was too. She's the boss out of my 3 hatchery girls. But she's never seen a boy before so....

So Sunday morning breakfast will be bullseye check. They would be black sex-link right? BCM roo over barred rock hen?

Most likely! You can even use white males if they have the correct type of genes:

Quote: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information

 

[BCollie]

So we have a small problem...I had an Easter Egger and a Trader Joe's chick hatch out while I was gone for a couple hours. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but the problem is this...they're both the same color! I can't tell which is which. They're both yellow, but one is more of a darker, brown-ish yellow(but still obviously yellow). They're both still wet, but I can tell neither have chipmunk stripes.
Basically, I have a yellow EE and a yellow TJ's chick in the bator. And I don't know which is which, but I need to be able to sell them as either this, or that... What do I do?!

Also, I can't remove and band them yet because a) I don't know where my leg bands are, and b) they're too wet to take out of the incubator. SO ANOTHER PROBLEM, now that I think about it, is that more TJ's will be hatching over night and so it will be even harder to tell which is the TJ's and which one is the EE.

 

[ronott1]

So we have a small problem...I had an Easter Egger and a Trader Joe's chick hatch out while I was gone for a couple hours. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but the problem is this...they're both the same color! I can't tell which is which. They're both yellow, but one is more of a darker, brown-ish yellow(but still obviously yellow). They're both still wet, but I can tell neither have chipmunk stripes.
Basically, I have a yellow EE and a yellow TJ's chick in the bator. And I don't know which is which, but I need to be able to sell them as either this, or that... What do I do?!

Also, I can't remove and band them yet because a) I don't know where my leg bands are, and b) they're too wet to take out of the incubator. SO ANOTHER PROBLEM, now that I think about it, is that more TJ's will be hatching over night and so it will be even harder to tell which is the TJ's and which one is the EE.

You should be able to tell the difference between the two when they fluff up. look for fat cheeks. Also, you might be able to see the difference in the combs. TJs will have straight combs and EEs will usually have pea combs,

 

[ronott1]

I hope everyone has a fun and safe Holiday!

 

[OR4-hmom]

So we have a small problem...I had an Easter Egger and a Trader Joe's chick hatch out while I was gone for a couple hours. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but the problem is this...they're both the same color! I can't tell which is which. They're both yellow, but one is more of a darker, brown-ish yellow(but still obviously yellow). They're both still wet, but I can tell neither have chipmunk stripes.
Basically, I have a yellow EE and a yellow TJ's chick in the bator. And I don't know which is which, but I need to be able to sell them as either this, or that... What do I do?!   

Also, I can't remove and band them yet because a) I don't know where my leg bands are, and b) they're too wet to take out of the incubator. SO ANOTHER PROBLEM, now that I think about it, is that more TJ's will be hatching over night and so it will be even harder to tell which is the TJ's and which one is the EE.

Check the leg color also, EE willow, TJ yellow, hopefully.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Happy 4th everyone! Sprinkler running on the yard for our fireworks tonight, enjoying my day off, 8 shifts in 7 days sucked!

I'm hoping to work on some cages today so I can move the quail and phoenix out of the laundry room.

 

[ronott1]

Check the leg color also, EE willow, TJ yellow, hopefully.

Yes!

Since they are really Non Standard Ameraucana, you should have big differences. EEs from hatcheries are a bunch different.

 

[BCollie]

Thank you guys The leg color of the yellow EE that I can see is orange.
The one EE that I can see(the one with the orange legs) has a black spot on her back, is that normal? I'm absolutely positive that she's from a green/blue egg, not a TJ's egg, as I counted the TJ's eggs after she had hatched and all 13 were unhatched.

 

[BCollie]

Happy 4th!