Chickenstock fiesta yardsale August 21

[keesmom]

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http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html

I think you'll get birchen pullets (silver) and yellow roos (only one copy of gold instead of 2).

 

[darbella]

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http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html

I think you'll get birchen pullets (silver) and yellow roos (only one copy of gold instead of 2).

Thanks Cindy, but can you tell me what yellow roos would be? And I never realized that color can be for one sex or another!

 

[keesmom]

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Well, yellow roos will be paler in color than those carrying 2 gold genes (brown red, or gold birchen).

The presence of silver and gold genes in chickens is what allows hatcheries (and others) to produce sex-linked chicks. Usually that means a gold male over a silver female. You have a silver male over a gold female, but that doesn't mean you won't get sex-links. You will but the boys won't be brown reds, they'll be muted in color.

If this helps, copying from another thread:

The most important thing to remember about sex-linked crosses is that 1) female offspring inherit their sex-linked trait from the father and 2) the male offspring inherit a sex-linked trait from the mother and a sex-linked trait from the father.

 

[darbella]

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Well, yellow roos will be paler in color than those carrying 2 gold genes (brown red, or gold birchen).

The presence of silver and gold genes in chickens is what allows hatcheries (and others) to produce sex-linked chicks. Usually that means a gold male over a silver female. You have a silver male over a gold female, but that doesn't mean you won't get sex-links. You will but the boys won't be brown reds, they'll be muted in color.

If this helps, copying from another thread:

The most important thing to remember about sex-linked crosses is that 1) female offspring inherit their sex-linked trait from the father and 2) the male offspring inherit a sex-linked trait from the mother and a sex-linked trait from the father.

OK, I think I am starting to understand it now. But i could not for the life of me figure out how to use that thread you gave the link for! All Greek to me. I think I will look for a book perhaps, or more on line research.

 

[Poultry Run Farm]

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Oh I wish I could find some place for you! Maybe Shay can rent you some rooms! LOL I will check the area here to see what may be available and pas the info on. Looks like you still want to drive though huh? LOL

Oh yeah just LOVE to drive!!

 

[Poultry Run Farm]

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There is also a guy we met on another board that breeds lots of different moderns, even working on projects that are not in the standard yet. He is in Oklahoma. That's what Sarah and I are doing this week she has a bunch coming from him and we are setting up cages for them in the chick room.

Edited to add will PM his contact information when I am a little more awake

 

[shay20]

Had a hawk attack yesterday!

As we were leaving hubby went out back to check things before we head out and guess what he saw swoooping into the TURKEY pen! Yep a hawk.
He ran over the thing took off, 3 of my pigions went walking and running into there coop, 1 we could not find, i was sooo POed, we look everywhere, as we were leaveing she came out from where the sheep are, my oor baby, i ran over and grabbed her cooped her in, she was fine.

But we found feathers everywhere through the open run, and i can not figure out whos they are.

 

[howardacres]

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Did you get some red/silver reflective tape? Wildlife Services mailed us some for free back in the summer. I asked hubby how he got it...... He said he called NH Fish and Game in Concord, and complained about the hawk killing our duck and coming back again for more. F&G gave us a number to call for Wildlife Services---you might want to just ask them to get you in touch with Wildlife Services (we don't have a number for it anymore). Hubby then talked to a guy in Wildlife Services (it's a federal agency, not a state one, because hawks are protected under federal law)---this guy offered us the reflective tape and told us to string it across the yard several times to deter hawks. He said it works because the tape reflects light into the hawks' eyes and disrupts their abilty to focus and dive in for the kill. You can also use cheap DVDs or CD disks, hang them with fishing line around your yard and on your coop/run, etc, and they do the same thing, plus they look like big eyes.

We've been lucky---after we put the tape and DVD disks up, we have not had any hawk trouble. You mentioned you have a lot of trees around your yard--- would you consider cutting some down to make it less attractive to the hawks? I'm trying to think of anything that might help. I am sure you are SO frustrated by now!!!

Hi Abby, I got the tape and I have CD's haning on the sides of the run, and also have them on the top of the netting with the reflecting side up and also along the corral fence posts in the yard. This hawk just glares at me and then will take off and swoop at me. I think it is the same one that hit me in the face this past fall with his wing and made a red mark on my face. Gee, we can shoot a tresspasser in self defense, but not a darn bird! Geesh, what is wrong with this country!

Yep, it sure is crazy the way the laws are! I'm inclined to agree with the person who suggested locking in you free-range birds. When the racoon came and killed 2 of our ducks, it came back again the next night looking for the 3rd duck. We had her safe in a crate though, and he went away when he saw he wasn't getting a free meal again. We tried trapping him, but he never came back, not even for free meat (the bait)!
We kept the duck locked up until we put up the electric fence--it took us a couple weeks to finish it. Then the hawk came and killed her 3 days after that! So we locked up the last 2 ducks we'd gotten to keep her company. We also locked up our chickens---i would not even let them semi-free range daytimes in the back yard for the next 2-3 weeks! They had to stay in the coop with the wire mesh over the run. The hawk stuck around for all of one day, and then it left---we never saw it again, but i still kept everyone locked up for those 2-3 weeks cuz i worried it would come back. The ducks stayed in a large over-size dog crate until i got the new pen made for them in the back yard---it also has wire mesh securely stapled over the top, so no hawks can get in, plus raccons, etc, can't just climb over the walls either. I really do think that as long as the hawks think they can nab a free meal, they will stick around, but once they realize the food is unavailable, they will move on looking for something else. When i did let my ducks and chickens back outside to graze on the lawn, i had already put up the reflective stuff. Plus i only let them out for a few hours at a time while i was home and working in my yard. So far, no more troubles. Of course now that it's winter, no one grazes on the lawn, though the chickens can go into their covered run if they like, during the day only.
Your hawk sounds very fearless. I wonder if he's interested in your chickens becasue it is much harder for them to find mice, etc in winter?? i'm guessing. But it seems like locking up your free-rangers is your best bet to show that hawk he can't have an easy meal!
Good luck, you really need luck these days!

 

[darbella]

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Oh, I am sorry to hear this. That is the worst when you cannot figure which bird they got. I used to love hawks and their regalness, but now I can say I just about hate them! When i am driving and see tons of pigeons sitting on the power lines i wonder why they are not picked off by the hawks? They must like chicken better. I am going to make a scarecrow and put it out there next, but seeing as how this hawk swoops at me, I doubt a scarecrow will even phase him in the least.

 

[Poultry Run Farm]

Wow!! Shay soo sorry to hear

Sorry you guys are having so many problems. We have lost a couple here and there, some of the young ones when it turned cold, but everyone is doing pretty well so far.... I'm not going to say it too loud, though, you know how that works....