Dixie Chicks

[NotAFarm]

@NotAFarm Oooh! So pretty!! I want Icelandics sooo bad, lol... Been resisting, but it's getting harder and harder...

Are you anywhere near Nashville?

 

[Ravynscroft]

ohh btw @RavynFallen
  can you expand a bit more about the fatale gene with the amercana's?

Fatal gene is with the Araucanas not the Ameraucanas... Ameraucanas have muffs and beards, those aren't an issues... Araucanas are rumpless (for standard, but tails do happen) and have tufts... the tufts grow out of peduncles by their ears only... having tufts is the standard, but to breed successfully, you have to breed tufted to non-tufted... some come out with tufts, some do not... if you breed tufted to tufted, it causes 100% fatality in the chicks that get tufted genes from both parents... going tufted to non-tufted still causes approx 25% fatality... the reason that is thought to cause it is that 2 copies of the tufted gene seems to make the tufts grow inward instead of out...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Are you anywhere near Nashville?

Very close! Live outside of Columbia area, and Jim works in Bellevue, Nashville...

 

[Amberjem]

Here is a picture from this past weekend when two of the grandkids (we have 6-4 boys 2 girls) were visiting.
Grandson #3 feeding the flock some sprouted barley. I soaked the barley on Wednesday evening and showed it to him when he arrived Thursday evening. It was already showing the little white tails of growth. He kept asking when can we feed it and I told him maybe Saturday if it had grown enough, if not then Sunday. He helped rinse it twice a day and was very excited to see the roots grow and then the sprouts. We gave some to them Saturday afternoon and the rest on Sunday afternoon. He is a good helper.

 

[Amberjem]

Fatal gene is with the Araucanas not the Ameraucanas... Ameraucanas have muffs and beards, those aren't an issues... Araucanas are rumpless (for standard, but tails do happen) and have tufts... the tufts grow out of peduncles by their ears only... having tufts is the standard, but to breed successfully, you have to breed tufted to non-tufted... some come out with tufts, some do not... if you breed tufted to tufted, it causes 100% fatality in the chicks that get tufted genes from both parents... going tufted to non-tufted still causes approx 25% fatality... the reason that is thought to cause it is that 2 copies of the tufted gene seems to make the tufts grow inward instead of out...

ahh ha soo glad I asked I thought it was the puffy cheeks one less worry then....

 

[hennible]

OUR TWO LONERS!

Nice pic... You using the tablet again?

 

[BriardChickens]

Kids and animals!

 

[Amberjem]

@NotAFarm what kind of feed do you feed your chickens? and everyone else............


btw has anyone seen @Alaskan I am getting worried ... maybe after the nighmare the spouse locked em into a cage?

 

[Ravynscroft]

ahh ha soo glad I asked I thought it was the  puffy cheeks one less worry then....

Nope, you got no worries, lol... I'll try to remember to get pics of my Araucana bantams for you tomorrow, they went in their coop already, just so you can see the difference...

 

[hennible]

@NotAFarm
  what kind of feed do you feed your chickens? and everyone else............


btw has anyone seen @Alaskan
 I am getting worried ... maybe after the nighmare the spouse  locked em into a cage? 

ALs been around... Today.