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[normanack]

Steen, those are all gorgeous roos. I adore the blue wheaten -- he is magnificent!

 

[CibolaChooks]

Steen, those are all gorgeous roos. I adore the blue wheaten -- he is magnificent!

thanks allot hes really starting to look good. His comb is a bit large and sloppy with the points but hes the only blue wheaten god left me after the coyote attack so im glad i got him. Thanks to Jean sending a few extra BW eggs on an auction i won i got a pullet growing out for him also. It will be nice to have Paul S. x Jean (pips&peeps) offspring next year .

 

[GaryDean26]

Ya, I knew ChicKat would recognize Ice. He has done quite a bit of maturing in the past year. I haven't put him on the scale but know he is well over 6 lbs now.

So far the plan is going really good. When I saw our average egg production in each pen drop from 4-3/4 eggs/hen a week to about 3 eggs/hen a week in August I feared that all the hens I was hoping to hatch eggs from in September were going to be molting or broody and I would stuck holding an empty egg basket.

I moved all the hens but Robin and Lilly out of Pen #3 to collect eggs for 2-1/2 weeks and in so doing was able to confirm they were each still laying 4-5 eggs a week.

Most of the hens from that pen #3 ended up in roosterless pen with CLB 8 hens. I was only getting at the most 3 eggs on a day and some days only 1 eggs The hen I am collecting from now was in that pen. I knew she was still laying, but didn't know how well.

After setting all the eggs from Robin and Lilly I put Ice and the hen I wanted to collect eggs from in with four BCM pullets that just started to lay. To my delight the CLB eggs are coming at the rate of 4-5 eggs a week, are a really good sized egg, and have the really blue color of the hen's non-creased mother.

So...so far it looks like I did good on my selection. All the hens that I picked as being the best type are prooving to be the best layers. Yeah...I is so exciting when things go as planned.

I am hatching from four pairings (and may hatch from one more after I am done collecting from the current hen) The first four pairings have all been hens that are in the top 1/3 of the flock in production, top 1/3 in mature weight, top 1/3 in type and shape, and half of them even have fair color.

 

[GaryDean26]

in the second pic you can see the double point. How likely is that going to be passed on to his offspring. will all his offspring get it or will it be random.

A reference on pairing said that if your line has a tendancy to a defect to not breed a bird that has that defect. So if 80% of your cockerels are showing up with double tipped points, then the advice would be to only breed from the 20% that don't have a double tip. If this is the only cockerel in the flock with the double tip, then the advise would be that is if probablly safe to use him as long as he is not paired to a pullet that has the same defect.

Combs are ussually considered finishing touches on a line. So at this point I think that going with the straight comb and good type over a one with out a double tip should work out for you. I don't know how the double tips are passed to offspring though.

 

[CibolaChooks]

A reference on pairing said that if your line has a tendancy to a defect to not breed a bird that has that defect. So if 80% of your cockerels are showing up with double tipped points, then the advice would be to only breed from the 20% that don't have a double tip. If this is the only cockerel in the flock with the double tip, then the advise would be that is if probablly safe to use him as long as he is not paired to a pullet that has the same defect.

Combs are ussually considered finishing touches on a line. So at this point I think that going with the straight comb and good type over a one with out a double tip should work out for you. I don't know how the double tips are passed to offspring though.

well my line is your founding stock lol. I don't know if you have ever seen one but i have 12 cockerels and only the one has it and none of the females have it so hes a 1%er.

 

[1muttsfan]

Got a shipment of happiness today - ordered some GFF chicks, 3 - 2013 line cockerels and 3 Swedish Flower Hens to round out the group - and THIS is what arrived!

Now I have to figure out how to fit all 14 under one hen - who is currently sitting on 6 SFH eggs due any day.

I am not familiar with colors of SFHs, let alone chick down colors, apart from them being very variable. Not sure if she sent me 3 or 4 CL's, as one of these things is not quite like the others -

 

[CibolaChooks]

another cockerel i thought you guys would enjoy. This is one of my two Norwegian Jearhon cocks.

 

[ChicKat]

Got a shipment of happiness today - ordered some GFF chicks, 3 - 2013 line cockerels and 3 Swedish Flower Hens to round out the group - and THIS is what arrived!

Now I have to figure out how to fit all 14 under one hen - who is currently sitting on 6 SFH eggs due any day.

I am not familiar with colors of SFHs, let alone chick down colors, apart from them being very variable. Not sure if she sent me 3 or 4 CL's, as one of these things is not quite like the others -

Oh they are so wonderful. It is giving me chick fever...............uh OH. Thanks for posting and thanks for the chick video with the little squeeky peeps.

 

[ChicKat]

Ya, I knew ChicKat would recognize Ice. He has done quite a bit of maturing in the past year. I haven't put him on the scale but know he is well over 6 lbs now.

So far the plan is going really good. When I saw our average egg production in each pen drop from 4-3/4 eggs/hen a week to about 3 eggs/hen a week in August I feared that all the hens I was hoping to hatch eggs from in September were going to be molting or broody and I would stuck holding an empty egg basket.

I moved all the hens but Robin and Lilly out of Pen #3 to collect eggs for 2-1/2 weeks and in so doing was able to confirm they were each still laying 4-5 eggs a week.

Most of the hens from that pen #3 ended up in roosterless pen with CLB 8 hens. I was only getting at the most 3 eggs on a day and some days only 1 eggs The hen I am collecting from now was in that pen. I knew she was still laying, but didn't know how well.

After setting all the eggs from Robin and Lilly I put Ice and the hen I wanted to collect eggs from in with four BCM pullets that just started to lay. To my delight the CLB eggs are coming at the rate of 4-5 eggs a week, are a really good sized egg, and have the really blue color of the hen's non-creased mother.

So...so far it looks like I did good on my selection. All the hens that I picked as being the best type are prooving to be the best layers. Yeah...I is so exciting when things go as planned.

I am hatching from four pairings (and may hatch from one more after I am done collecting from the current hen) The first four pairings have all been hens that are in the top 1/3 of the flock in production, top 1/3 in mature weight, top 1/3 in type and shape, and half of them even have fair color.

Sounds so successful. My egg count for the Month of September is zero. Feathers everywhere. Probably stress and shortened daylight hours. But zero....

 

[dcba flock]

Steen all of your birds are beautiful! I might be interested in getting some Jaers eggs in the spring if you have any available!