Creating Crele Colored Chickens

[Kiki]

Recently this has been the case for studies one of these studies is A morphometric method of sexing white layer eggs http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2013000300006

I've been thinking about a method of testing this method reliably with white leghorn lines. Crossing a Silkie rooster with White Leghorns, hatch the eggs based on shape and see what is the actual percentage of hatched females(this specific cross makes it easy to sex them the moment they hatch)

There are a couple of threads here where people tested this, have you seen them yet?
I'll find them for you if you haven't.

 

[Kiki]

My heating element is glitchy. My thermometer is calibrated right. My incubator thermometer isn't working right though.

Never trust an incubator thermometer. Always have at least two separately purchased calibrated ones in your bator.
I prefer 3.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Never trust an incubator thermometer. Always have at least two separately purchased calibrated ones in your bator.
I prefer 3.

I have one really good separate thermometer in my incubator.

 

[Kiki]

I have one really good separate thermometer in my incubator.

Good then go by it and pay not attention to the other one.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I wrapped my incubator in a towel, my temp raised to 99.1°F

 

[MysteryChicken]

Good then go by it and pay not attention to the other one.

I was going by my separate thermometer.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Well, it's fluctuating between 99.1°F to 98.8°F.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Posting update tomorrow.

 

[MROO]

My heating element is glitchy. My thermometer is calibrated right. My incubator thermometer isn't working right though.

Ouch! Is the temp control directly linked to the thermometer, or do you adjust it manually based on the temp?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Ouch! Is the temp control directly linked to the thermometer, or do you adjust it manually based on the temp?

Not sure completely. It worked fine the first time I used it.