California - Northern

[dldolan]

Maybe CCL genes asserting themselves ?

Aha! I tried looking it up on the chicken genetics calculator http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html. I couldn't get it quite right, but think i came close and that gold may indeed express itself, so I think you may have something! In which case "chipmunk" is probably a "she" if the auto-sexing is still working!

 

[AmyPaperlady]

I'm overthinking things again...

Anyway, I really want to come home from Ferndale with additions to my flock, and I figure that my best bet would be to arrange a presale, right? I started a thread in the shows forum, and I've posted requests to the California Poultry People North and Humboldt Poultry Fanciers Association FB pages. But I was thinking... Maybe some sort of chicken train to Ferndale could be arranged? I know it's kind of short notice, since the show's this weekend...

Anyway, I'm looking for fully feathered pullets/hens. Any age--I just need them to be fully feathered, because I don't have anywhere to quarantine with electrical access. Preferably *not* a light-brown layer--I want a bit more color in my basket Culls are fine--I'm not interested in showing, and I can't have a rooster, so breeding's not an issue.

 

[caychris]

I'm overthinking things again...

Anyway, I really want to come home from Ferndale with additions to my flock, and I figure that my best bet would be to arrange a presale, right? I started a thread in the shows forum, and I've posted requests to the California Poultry People North and Humboldt Poultry Fanciers Association FB pages. But I was thinking... Maybe some sort of chicken train to Ferndale could be arranged? I know it's kind of short notice, since the show's this weekend...

Anyway, I'm looking for fully feathered pullets/hens. Any age--I just need them to be fully feathered, because I don't have anywhere to quarantine with electrical access. Preferably *not* a light-brown layer--I want a bit more color in my basket Culls are fine--I'm not interested in showing, and I can't have a rooster, so breeding's not an issue.

saw that post on the CPP FB group now can connect who is who

 

[AmyPaperlady]

Sneaky in name-picking, I'm not

And I must be more tired than I thought, 'cause that was hilarious in my head... Night, all!

 

[ronott1]

Crazy hatch
I cannot figure this out! I collected and set all eggs myself. Except for the Pinta Pinta eggs, the daddy should have been my Splash Marans roo. There is a slight chance that my Blue Mille Fleur Bantam Cochin roo fertilized somebody but I moved him two weeks before I started this test hatch, so that should have been out of the girls’ systems! Here is my chart, with who the egg came from, and when it hatched out. Highlighted in blue are what I thought would come & what has come out. The other two are what I thought was coming out.

Issues:
#1 No Splash chick, unless the lightest blue is really Splash, in which case it’s the darkest splash chick I’ve ever seen or had in the past 4 years!
#2 Where on earth did this golden chipmunk chick come from?? Chick EE was the only one that hatched in the old Brower incubator, so that was pretty clear it was what I expected.

In order as on the excel spreadsheet:
Not Splash in my book!




WHAT???




Any thoughts? So baffling!

They are cute!

Two weeks is not enough time for the sperm to die. Sperm lives for more than thirty days so yes, you have the old rooster as the father.

Several years ago a lot of people mis understood a talk by Dr. Braamwell.

New sperm does not push out old sperm. The old sperm has to die and there will be less of it.

I have posted about this many times--Breeders need to wait at least 30 days before collecting eggs after changing a rooster.

 

[tommysgirl]

Sperm lives for more than thirty days so yes, you have the old rooster as the father.

...-Breeders need to wait at least 30 days before collecting eggs after changing a rooster.

I inadvertently let out my NH girls yesterday at around 4:00 so had to spend the rest of the afternoon out with them keeping a close eye on Buster and Cosmo...Ike kept a way better eye on things than I did though...Neither of the other boys came close to his girls.

I love Ike! He is tolerant of the other boys (Buster and Cosmo) and they are smart enough to run off when they see him coming their way. Buster is a RSL...NH over Del and he is as tall as Ike but at about 18 weeks not as filled out. Cosmo is tiny. He and Buster share the laying hens but Cosmo who is roughly 1/4 the size of Buster rules the roost in that pen. It is really cute to see Buster back off to Cosmo. Like a Shetland Pony telling a Clydesdale what's up.

 

[tommysgirl]

In non chicken related news my daughter has got herself a dog training job in Marin County. If you know of anyone looking for a responsible, quiet, non-partying, young woman to rent a room in their house please let me know. She doesn't have a dog yet but has every intention of getting one and as a dog trainer people can be sure that the dog will be very well behaved and it will be going to work with her.

Anyway, she has been answering cl ads for a week and hasn't had much luck yet so if anyone knows anyone @juststruttin she will be working in Novato and San Rafael.

 

[dldolan]

They are cute!

Two weeks is not enough time for the sperm to die. Sperm lives for more than thirty days so yes, you have the old rooster as the father.

Several years ago a lot of people mis understood a talk by Dr. Braamwell.

New sperm does not push out old sperm. The old sperm has to die and there will be less of it.

I have posted about this many times--Breeders need to wait at least 30 days before collecting eggs after changing a rooster.

Interesting. I thought it was a 14 day die-out, so this is new information to me. Thanks!
So, if it were a Blue Mille Fleur Bantam Cochin daddy over a (CCL x Marans) OE, it still doesn't seem like it would give a mildly chipmunk red chick, does it? Color genetics...so interesting!

 

[tommysgirl]

I'd be interested to know if all of your chicks joined in the fun and games, or just specific ones.
And then I'd be interested to know what their gender turns out to be.

So far, cockerels seem to like that game around here...

ps super cute chicks and sweet momma

Thanks and it was just 3 chicks that were playing on the playground. The other three...including both mottled and one of the silver and black chipmunk were under mama. I can't tell who is who between the 2 penguins and the 2 silver and black chipmunk babies. Hopefully these three rowdies are tomboys

Crazy hatch
I cannot figure this out! I collected and set all eggs myself. Except for the Pinta Pinta eggs, the daddy should have been my Splash Marans roo. There is a slight chance that my Blue Mille Fleur Bantam Cochin roo fertilized somebody but I moved him two weeks before I started this test hatch, so that should have been out of the girls’ systems! Here is my chart, with who the egg came from, and when it hatched out. Highlighted in blue are what I thought would come & what has come out. The other two are what I thought was coming out.



Not Splash in my book!




WHAT???

I hope you weren't too disappointed... the chicks are adorable.

Adorable!! I am starting to lose my resolve not to start hatching yet!

It's that time of year

I sold 3 girls yesterday bringing my hen number down to 24..give or take
Chick total stands at 14 two of them are going to a new home this weekend at least three of them are going in the stew pot in a couple of months
Rooster/Cockerel Total at 4.

Grand Total 42...It was 52 in December.

I rehomed a Rooster on Sunday and there was great rejoicing...You know I process extras but this little one fooled me. I had him named Wilma and my daughter had her and her hatchmates all tame and loving us...Then she turned into Waylon

and he was such a honey I just couldn't process him so I found him a home with a couple who also bought some girls from a friend of mine. Buster is from the same hatch. He is also very sweet and he has a home here for awhile but if I get a Houdan Boy worth hanging on to in the Urch order I am afraid I will have to find him a new place too. It is nice to know that if you are patient it is possible.

 

[ronott1]

Interesting. I thought it was a 14 day die-out, so this is new information to me. Thanks!
So, if it were a Blue Mille Fleur Bantam Cochin daddy over a (CCL x Marans) OE, it still doesn't seem like it would give a mildly chipmunk red chick, does it? Color genetics...so interesting!

Growing up, my Father taught us about the 30 day life of sperm in hens. The two week thing is perplexing to me since it has proven to be wrong in both poultry studies and real life experience. I have some very pretty Dorking x buff ameraucana chickens that were only separated for two weeks and sold as pure SG Dorking eggs.

Maybe part of the problem is the two weeks of storage of fertile eggs before hatching.

Mixing breeds can bring out a lot of odd genetics and colors. Check the number of toes on your chicks and the will likely be off too.