Colorado

[coloradogal]

I have a charcoal one that is rectangular, about 24" X 18"

Still trying to get a firm set of available dates from Beth.......

let us know. i'm good for a few people.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Food for Thought:

You know all your animals in your flock, and their off-spring. You've kept detailed notes on your breeding lines; based on this information and their performance; you select your breeders and prepare your matings for the following year. After your selections, you take a blood sample from each animal and send it off to the lab. In a few weeks, the lab returns the results of your selections.

From their analysis, you now know which genes your selected breeders carry. You know in general terms who carries genes for fast feathering; weight gain; egg laying ability; large eggs; how dark the brown coating on the eggs will be. You know if any in the selected breeders carries genes that will limit viability and hatch rates of the eggs that will be incubated. You know which of your selected roosters carries the genes for high egg production to be passed onto his daughters. You know which hens have the genetic material for high egg production that they can pass onto their sons...these are only a few of the obvious genetic enhancers that can be detected. The chicken genome project was completed almost 10 years ago.

This is a quote from the opening paragraph of an article released from the University of Milan entitled, "Animal Selection: The Genomics Revolution".

"The rapid improvements in high-throughput single nucleotide polymorphism

(SNP) genotyping technologies, ever-denser SNP arrays accompanied
by reduced costs for genotyping and for sequencing, open
the possibility of using genomic information in livestock selection. The
industry is thus facing the new paradigm of “genomic selection,” in which
genomic information may reduce costs and accelerate genetic gain by reducing​

generation intervals."

 

[wsmith]

Interesting. I like the suspense of doing it the old way.....

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

I like to gamble a bit with stuff like that. Sometimes I think we are moving to much towards becoming a world like the one in Gatica. :/. Though it would be cool to try on a few, just to see if their findings line up with your observations.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Modern Genetic Research has allowed the poultry industry to make advancements in breeding that would have taken decades using traditional methods. Now modern production methodologies are allowing this technology to be made available to anybody who will pay the price. This technology has advanced to the point that the through-put is now allowing the price to drop for this type of testing. Currently, a complete Genomic Blueprint and interpretation of the contents of the report for any animal in your flock can be had for under $200.00.

$200.00....sounds like a lot of money. But then look at the cost of maintaining offspring in a series of matings to see how the mating is working. By traditional methods, each mating is an experiment to see if the genetic material that you want the offspring to possess did in fact get transferred. If you know the genetic blueprint of your breeders, you can....with great accuracy....select breeders; select matings...and calculate the transference probabilities of the offspring...before the matings even occur. Your long term costs are then greatly reduced by knowing ahead the probability of success you will experience in the pairings that you plan to make....

Today the cost of this knowledge is a little under $200.00 dollars...in ten years it will under $20.00. This technology and knowledge will become more available, less expensive, with each passing year.

I wonder how this level of technology will affect our backyard breeds in the future? What will happen to Hatchery Stock?....What will happen to genetic variability of our Heritage Breeds?


Food for thought...

 

[Rock Home Isle]

What was weird?

I posted...When I re-read it, I didn't like the way it read so I edited the post and submitted it. Suddenly, I had 2 posts....one was my original post and the other was my edited post....

That was weird...

 

[gardendufus]

Well, I think the lines have been drawn. My BRs and my GLW really don't care that there are birds living beside them. My BA doesn't like the infringement at all and is very vocal about it but not too aggressive. My Wellies, well, let me say it's a good thing there's a fence. One Wellie has tried several times to scale the fence to get to them. In particular, it absolutely hates the little golden EE. She stalks it, pecking at it through the fence whenever possible. If it's not available, she'll go after the other EE. None of the girls seem to mind the Doms who are oblivious pretty much to the older birds.

I watched my Dom this morning to see if she showed any ill effects from her entrapment last night. She seemed fine. Until I got a closer look. Looks like she broke a toe. Went out and got some vet bandages, and now I'm off to the threads to see what I can find on the best way to splint/bandage a toe. She doesn't seem to be in pain in fact she doesn't seem to notice it at all, but it is obviously injured. Wish me luck.........

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Title 35, Article 33: Custom Processing of Meat Animals Act

Can anybody find this Colorado State Statute? I have been looking "off & on" for about an hour....I keep getting a blank.

If you find it, a link would be great...or a cut & paste into a PM will do...

Thank you.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

I go to the Colorado Revised Statutes website and this is what I keep getting:

No documents were found for your search terms

"Title 35, Article 33: Custom Processing of Meat Animals Act"


Click "Edit Search" to return to the search form and modify your search.

 

[mynamesjenelle]

Well, I think the lines have been drawn.  My BRs and my GLW really don't care that there are birds living beside them.  My BA doesn't like the infringement at all and is very vocal about it but not too aggressive.  My Wellies, well, let me say it's a good thing there's a fence.  One Wellie has tried several times to scale the fence to get to them.  In particular, it absolutely hates the little golden EE.  She stalks it, pecking at it through the fence whenever possible.  If it's not available, she'll go after the other EE.  None of the girls seem to mind the Doms who are oblivious pretty much to the older birds.

I watched my Dom this morning to see if she showed any ill effects from her entrapment last night.  She seemed fine.  Until I got a closer look.  Looks like she broke a toe.  Went out and got some vet bandages, and now I'm off to the threads to see what I can find on the best way to splint/bandage a toe.  She doesn't seem to be in pain in fact she doesn't seem to notice it at all, but it is obviously injured.  Wish me luck.........

Aww poor girl! You can probably just follow the directions for splinting a finger (without taping it to the adjacent one) which are pretty straightforward. I read from a lady who had to tape her bird's foot up after doing bumblefoot surgery and she said the worst part is keeping the chickens, including the injured chicken, from pecking at the bandages. I think she recommended vetwrap for ease of use and resilience to pecking. It does have latex in it if you're allergic though.

That's strange that your welsummers are so aggressive. Remember how we were commiserating about how neither of ours are as friendly as the others? Well I found out why mine is not friendly - she's fearful! After watching the little flock interact the past few nights I finally saw that she is getting henpecked by everyone, even the little barred rock and EE! I grabbed her the other night and pinned her down in my lap to give her treats in front of the other girls. They were NOT happy about it but it did calm her down some. If it's just one welsummer acting the bully then you can try separating her from everyone. I had to do that with my cochin when we first got her to keep her from terrorizing the barred rock. I put her in a separate run, but right next to the other ones so that they could still see and interact. After about a week of this and spraying her with a garden mister when she got pecky, she did back off, but she was pretty mad about the separation. Maybe that's why she's still our grumpiest lady