Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[ozexpat]

Oz is the adoption final? I dont think I saw that posted?

not yet. you will hear when it is

 

[ozexpat]

i haven't hatched any from mine yet - but ive only heard of the sports being roosters. i dont know enough on the genetics on them to try to breed for white. however, i think the barring gene is still present in the sports. (i could be wrong) if you ever bred a legbar to true white, it wouldnt be a legbar anymore as the barring would be missing.

if you can find sport hens; i do believe your right - keep breeding sport to sport should lock in the white traits (an overexpression of a silver gene.) the barring would still be present, and you will probably have some color bleed through on a percentage of the hatch. just a guess the color bleed through will pretty well be gone by the 4th generation.

here is an article on how they were bred:
http://www.britannicrarebreeds.co.uk/breedinfo/chicken_legbar.php

you could also breed to full white (i think) by selecting your lightest colored males and females, diluting the gold. eventually the silver gene should overcome the black too.

corrective breeding for color would be to brown leghorn hen, if egg color needs improvement cross in buff araucana. to me it only makes since to breed in dominate white from leghorns, and recross for blue from araucana (white with yellow legs) to lock in the full white color, with the other desirable characteristics.

im anxious to see how you go about this and how it works, as your messing with genes that i dont fully understand.

i want to try making blue barred birds that lay blue eggs

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: i haven't hatched any from mine yet - but ive only heard of the sports being roosters. i dont know enough on the genetics on them to try to breed for white. however, i think the barring gene is still present in the sports. (i could be wrong) if you ever bred a legbar to true white, it wouldnt be a legbar anymore as the barring would be missing.

if you can find sport hens; i do believe your right - keep breeding sport to sport should lock in the white traits (an overexpression of a silver gene.) the barring would still be present, and you will probably have some color bleed through on a percentage of the hatch. just a guess the color bleed through will pretty well be gone by the 4th generation.

here is an article on how they were bred:
http://www.britannicrarebreeds.co.uk/breedinfo/chicken_legbar.php

you could also breed to full white (i think) by selecting your lightest colored males and females, diluting the gold. eventually the silver gene should overcome the black too.

corrective breeding for color would be to brown leghorn hen, if egg color needs improvement cross in buff araucana. to me it only makes since to breed in dominate white from leghorns, and recross for blue from araucana (white with yellow legs) to lock in the full white color, with the other desirable characteristics.

im anxious to see how you go about this and how it works, as your messing with genes that i dont fully understand.
Brian since I hatched this guy I have been reading and reading trying to comprehend. In the end, I decided to do white to white, I have my contacts in order for hens and will be working on that as soon as its warm enough. I like messing with stuff I dont understand, I seem to get extremely lucky with my chickens and for some unknown reason have a good eye. I need something to keep my interest so the two projects in plans will certainly keep my mind interested! My CCL roo is absolutely adorable with those huge red head things! lol

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I have a WFS that lays a blue egg you can have LMAO!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[chicksooner]

Howdy yall! Crazy winter weather happening here. Was snow bound to the house with kids out of school for a month or at least it felt that way. I have been getting a few birds ready for a show this weekend. I think I am giving up and taking them as is poop butts and all. I am rather ashamed of their condition but hopefully everyone else showing is having the same issues as I am. This was from the other day. Don't judge them they are still more wet than dry in this pic. My office smelled like a coop for 2 days.

The cockerel was moved tot he garage with a heat lamp that night but the pullets stayed over night. I don't think I can handle ever doing that again. My OCD was severely tested.

I am going to start sorting out breeding pens in January and hatching in Feb.

 

[loveourbirds]

ive been thinking about blue cuckoo cochins, but with my current stock it would be a long process, so im kind of putting it off. im about 90% sure i can make them in an autosexing breed too.

i finally found a page that somewhat explains the genes in layman's terms. i still have a lot to learn about genes LOL. i did find this gene interesting in RIR's:

Red spash white rs Recessive. Two copies of this gene give a white bird with spashes of red and black. Chicks are white with a red head spot. This gene may be extinct now. It was first isolated in a line of Rhode Island Reds, but it was not maintained nor has it be re-identified.​

here is a link to the page:
http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page3.html

 

[rbaker0345]

Oz, you must talk to Jerry Segler. He is working on and has nearly perfected a barred ameraucana. He was one of the originators of the breed so I bet he would have some good advice for you. His handle on BYC is Jerryse and he is very approachable. He is going to start selling the barred am eggs in the spring and I'm going to jump on that list as soon as I can.


Sally, what is the FB site? I have given up on ebay, they ****** me off.

 

[rbaker0345]

I will be bathing chickens (and a muscovy and a MW turkey) all day tomorrow. Luckily, I won't have to keep them in the house too long tomorrow, its supposed to be nearly 50 most of the day. I have a show on Saturday. My six year old is doing showmanship for the first time.

 

[chicksooner]

I will be bathing chickens (and a muscovy and a MW turkey) all day tomorrow. Luckily, I won't have to keep them in the house too long tomorrow, its supposed to be nearly 50 most of the day. I have a show on Saturday. My six year old is doing showmanship for the first time.

Good luck at the show and to your little one. What is showmanship? I was looking at the schedule earlier and was wondering. 10 degrees is not even close to warm enough.