I bet you could do it. It would involved selective breeding of the offspring over some generations. You would need a genetics expert to help you pick the correct ones though. It is beyond me for that type of thing.
HI! Is it fun to live in the Bahamas?Thanks everyone,
I did go out to take a few pictures of the chicks as reqested as its been a while but they looked a right mess.
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But here's a photo of the legbars at one day old.
Thanks for the diversion and response. It's always fun to learn a little bit about other places, and the chickens that live there =)Well yes, it is fun!
However I probably have to correct the image you have in your head of spending time at the beach every day. NOT so. I suppose i could but I have a homestead. It is work and I love it.
I rarely leave. Ive been to the beach twice this year. What I love so much is the weather. I live on a fairly uninhabited island and when I first moved here I found the way of life here pretty frustrating. But those same things I griped about and have had to work around and adjust to has enriched my life tenfold. eg. never having yogurt at the store? well I learned to make it myself and it it so stupidly easy as are most things my life has just changed so much for the better. Besides, I never could have afforded to retire in Canada or in Scotland where my husband is from.
SOOOOOO off topic. I am sorry.But I was asked
As for the chickens. We had a torrential rain storm two weeks ago that flooded their pen. I had to go rescue them otherwise they would have likely perished. The water had flooded their entire pen and they were sodden. Its not a low area but the rain was of flash flood proportions. So I had to go out in the pouring rain....collect them all up and bring them inside. My laundry room had 31 chicks in it over night. not a pretty site. And now...because of that same rain we've had the worst influx of mosquitoes I have ever seen. They were actually tormenting the chicks. In the daytime they eat them, but at night they cant see them but they were swarming the little things. So today I enclosed their sleeping area with screen and hung strips of screen at the door so they can still walk in and out but it keeps out the mozzies.
Definitely a learning curve here. But yes....it's fun. I recommend it highly!
@Sally Sunshine and @Gardeningmama sorry I have not been able to take a new pic of my CCL x RIR cross chick with legs showing. The chick have bundled themselves with their mama in the farthest end of the coop because of the cold and I can't grab them. However from what I can see from couple of feet away is that the chicks pinkish legs and feet have turned willow. This is opposed to my CCL x Red Star crosses, whose legs and feet do have mix areas of willow and yellow. I will follow up with a pic when I am able to take one.She is even prettier now at 1 week.
By HRIR if you mean hatchery version, that is correct. I will try to take pics of the chicks legs and feet today. Just put them in the coop last night and feeling bad since temperatures are going to drop below freezing and stay that way for a few days. I guess their broody mama will have to cozy them for a few days. I hope she doesn't abandon them soon. She abandoned her last brood at 4 weeks exactly. Here is a pic of HRIR taken when she was 24 weeks old, I will try to take a fresh picture as well:
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Thanks for remembering, and no worries. I get the eggs tomorrow, so you have a good 3 weeks to post those pics!
Not Sally by any means, but the veining looks very receded, and that baby does look like it was nice and stuck. I think you did a great job. How did it turn out when you got home?@Sally Sunshine
I helped this chick out today that was malpositioned, pipping about a little below the midline of the egg on the narrow end. It pipped last night. I peeled a little shell back to make sure it could breath. In the morning there was no progress, so I helped. One out there was a little smudging on the washcloth on the floor of the incubator, but it wasn't free flowing. I hope I did the right thing. I won't know how she is doing til I get home this evening from work.
