California - Northern

[capayvalleychick]

Kim...are they going to talk Delawares on the CSU thread?

They just started... should be interesting.

The Delaware eggs are developing this time! The Rooster change must have worked or else the change is season raised fertility!

About half of the SG Dorking eggs are developing again too.

Such awesome news! Kind of strange that an 8 mth old cockerel would be more fertile than his 16 mth old sire. Are any of the Y or G marked eggs developing?
I have one blueberry container for you. Do you need it, after making that delicious looking pie?

 

[ronott1]

Quote: I did a quick candling when I put the Duck eggs into lockdown. The Y and G eggs were not doing much yet. The layer flock SG Dorking eggs were developing about 60%. The Official 7 day candling will be tonight and I will take notes.

I am good for Blue Berry containers! I bough two of them for the pie and still have the second one with 4 cups of berries I it. I will be making muffins and maybe Blue Berry Banana bread this weekend.

 

[tommysgirl]

They just started... should be interesting.


Such awesome news! Kind of strange that an 8 mth old cockerel would be more fertile than his 16 mth old sire. Are any of the Y or G marked eggs developing?
I have one blueberry container for you. Do you need it, after making that delicious looking pie?

I am going to mosey over there and see what they have to say. I am not interested in showing but I want to know how far my girls are from SOP...

So happy for you that you have new ones in the eggs! I LOVE my Delawares.

 

[ronott1]

Speaking of early Starters,

This 18 week old Cockerel:


Mounted this 18 week old Pullet!




I took the pictures and her Comb and wattle is already much bigger and redder.....

Juststruttin must have some early developing chickens over at their place......

 

[chicksnthestiks]

Pi Day Pie was very tasty

Ron, you have me drooling! Thank you for posting the recipes.

 

[ronott1]

Quote: My Middle Daughter made the German Chocolate pie and it was so good! I had a piece of each last night with Vanilla Ice cream.

I need to go for a very long walk today......

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Question for the day....last fall I got 2 white cockerels. I have never got white chickens out of these girls and my roo until these two. A girl, turns out she's a BYC member purchase one of them and said she thought they were dominant white. She's hatched out three chicks from him and they're all white. Not sure where this dominant white gene came from, any ideas? OK, that's not my question though.....I still had one more boy left (I've sold him also and he's getting picked up today) and while he stays away a bit because Big Daddy tells him to, he has mated some of the hens and I saw him mate one of my Blue Copper Marans. So if he has done that before then one of the 5 Marans eggs in the incubator would be white, right? And how would the gene effect the egg color of that chick? The white roo is an EE....all the hens from my roo and these hens have been green egg layers, but what would he offer? Oh, and he has a straight comb. The other white one had a pea comb. What color eggs would the chick from a white roo and a Blue Copper Marans lay? And the chick would have to be white if the dad is white dominant, right?

Here's a pic of the hens before they were laying and him if it helps...his tail has black spots which the girl who bought the other roo says is a trait of white dominant.

 

[debs_flock]

Strange question... do you all stay home for the hatch in case a chick needs assistance? I'm struggling with deciding to go on a 5 hr outing Sat afternoon but really feel like I should be here in case the chicks are hatching!!!

Your best bet is to go. The hardest skill to learn about hatching is how to sit on your hands. Way more chicks are killed by helping too soon than by letting them take their time.

No actual statistics on that, just my opinion....

 

[ronott1]

Question for the day....last fall I got 2 white cockerels. I have never got white chickens out of these girls and my roo until these two. A girl, turns out she's a BYC member purchase one of them and said she thought they were dominant white. She's hatched out three chicks from him and they're all white. Not sure where this dominant white gene came from, any ideas? OK, that's not my question though.....I still had one more boy left (I've sold him also and he's getting picked up today) and while he stays away a bit because Big Daddy tells him to, he has mated some of the hens and I saw him mate one of my Blue Copper Marans. So if he has done that before then one of the 5 Marans eggs in the incubator would be white, right? And how would the gene effect the egg color of that chick? The white roo is an EE....all the hens from my roo and these hens have been green egg layers, but what would he offer? Oh, and he has a straight comb. The other white one had a pea comb. What color eggs would the chick from a white roo and a Blue Copper Marans lay? And the chick would have to be white if the dad is white dominant, right?

Here's a pic of the hens before they were laying and him if it helps...his tail has black spots which the girl who bought the other roo says is a trait of white dominant.

Are you thinking of the Dr. Bramwell theory--the sperm is a first in first out process? The sperm goes into a storage area and is a liquid. liquids disperse and mix together. There is no guarantee that any egg will have been fertilized by the white boy and if they are there would be no order to it.

Survival of the fittest works here even without the evolution vs creationism issue. The fastest fittest sperm that gets there first will win usually. You could have more than one with the white too.

 

[Americangame]

Anyone know what these little guys are ??