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[Luvinmyhurd]

Does anybody have just hatched chicks available near Placerville. I have a broody EE that won't give up and I was unsuccessful with placing eggs under her and trying to break her of her broodyness... I need to get her out of the laying box. Thanks!

 

[Chickengirl1304]

One of my gold laced brahmas is broody and doesn't even have any dang eggs under her!! And none of the others will lay even though there are 2 boxes. I'm starting to get very irritated with her

 

[ronott1]

Does anybody have just hatched chicks available near Placerville. I have a broody EE that won't give up and I was unsuccessful with placing eggs under her and trying to break her of her broodyness... I need to get her out of the laying box. Thanks!

Deb is hatching a Parrot!

I would check with debs_flock she may still be hatching chicks

 

[ChickNmamma]

Sorry, I find the genetics of Chickens fascinating. Perhaps if you see the word "Genetics" anywhere in the post you can just skip it?

 

[Ali707]

Sorry, I find the genetics of Chickens fascinating. Perhaps if you see the word "Genetics" anywhere in the post you can just skip it?

Lol I find it fascinating too, however, it just hurts my brain. I think if I had a diagram I would better understand it. I am a visual learner and when I start reading about BBS, Or EE Or OMG and all those crosses I start to glaze over. My first impulse is to reread it slower, but that doesn't even help!

 

[ChickNmamma]

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[Happy Chooks]

One of my gold laced brahmas is broody and doesn't even have any dang eggs under her!! And none of the others will lay even though there are 2 boxes. I'm starting to get very irritated with her

Maybe your new girls will cough some eggs up for you soon.

 

[lawatt]

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excellent little chart! and i'm much clearer now on the relationship between the three colors (black being the absence of blue and splash being the double) -- of my four isbars, the cockerel & one pullet are blue, and two pullets are a very middle-grey splash, feathers mostly about the same color as the blues but with some dark feathers here and there. the isbar/marans cross that disappeared was my only light-colored splash, and the other cross is black.

these, plus my two odd-colored birchen marans, PLUS some combination(s) of birchen and duckwing marans still to hatch (plus my two cuckoo marans hens, i suppose), could all add up to some interesting crossings! although i'm definitely don't understand the behavior of the silver (s) gene in the cuckoos and birchens yet... and know absolutely NOTHING about the duckwings, not even what they look like!

 

[debs_flock]

oh, and one more question, this one about genetics: are ALL black chickens part of the BBS "system" of genetics, or is there an always-black gene? for instance, Jack the supposedly-birchen marans is looking all black. if i mated him with a blue isbar pullet, would i get the BBS combos of offspring, or would they just be black? (or, conversely, if my black australorp was mated with a blue isbar roo?)

Black to black will give you all black. It's when you start throwing in the blues and splashes that things get mixed up.

Does anybody have just hatched chicks available near Placerville. I have a broody EE that won't give up and I was unsuccessful with placing eggs under her and trying to break her of her broodyness... I need to get her out of the laying box. Thanks!

Sorry, I haven't got back to my PM's. I only have one new chick and it's something I wanted for me. I do have about 9 broodies right now though. If anyone hatches chicks I could get something for you.

 

[Ali707]

Does this help?

I get it now! I get it! Yay!

How does that saying go? A picture is worth a thousand words?