Dixie Chicks

[BriardChickens]

The tradition of not doing laundry between Christmas Eve and New Years Day:

It started off with my great great great ... grandparents on both sides of the family somewhere in Germany. Back in those days people would hang their laundry and sheets in the attic for drying. It was the believe that when people come visit they bring their spirits with them. Should there be laundry hung in the attic those spirits could linger/get lost between the sheets and laundry in the attics (some of those old European attics are creepy if you have never been in one!). Over Christmas you would have the potential of having all of your families ghosts/spirits lingering in your attic. Without laundry hanging the spirit would leave when the family member left.

Should a spirit get lost within the laundry the family member would die that coming year.

There might be a little bit of truth behind it: We had my brother in law live with us last Christmas season and he did laundry in my house. My grandpa as well as his grandpa died last year.

 

[Peep_Show]

have a gentic question if anyone has an answer.. so it suddenly struck me dotty barred rock cross has barred rock markings... I thought it fyou crossed something with a barred rock it became sex linked and the barred rock looking chicks would be male barred rock looking and hens not barred rock...did I miss something ?

The hen is the barred one (or silver factor gene, so a bird bred to have Columbian coloring) and the male a solid with red factor (which could go from shades of BO all the way to FBCM, but having that brown or gold in them). That's the simplified version for sex-links. It does not work the other way around, i.e. crossing a barred roo on a solid hen.

Auto-sexing (to my understanding) is where you can cross, say, a CCL female with anything and it will produce that spot on the head or the chipmunky females every time. Surprise, surprise, much like sex-links crossing a male CCL onto a solid female will not give you auto-sexing. (I've learned this from personal experience)

Genetics is full of surprises, like dominant and recessive traits. You can, for instance, have a bird that appears to be solid or barred that isn't a purebred, breed it, and traits that were recessive (non-visible) in the parent stock comes to the forefront if both birds have alike recessive genes. This can also happen with purebreds, which is why some breeders mate siblings to check for the recessives in their bloodstock.

In answer to your question, a barred rock cross is not a genetically-solid barred rock and so you have a wildcard factor of having the cross's genes play havoc with the sex-linkage..

 

[JW12]

Is it just me or could sharps be a stunt double for general George Armstrong Custer?

 

[Peep_Show]

Oops! I see what you're saying. It wasn't a barred rock cross cross.

In any event, barred rocks are not auto-sexing, so an every-single-time sex indicator is not in the cards. Like, for instance, if you bred to black birds (Australorps, Black Marans) or solid whites (White Rocks, Leghorns) to a barred rock hen the barring on the resultant chicks wouldn't mean anything except that's their coloring.

It's important to know the lineage of your parent stock to be able to predict sex-links.






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[Peep_Show]

I was thinking "re-enactor" also.... Buffalo Bill Cody came to mind

 

[Peep_Show]

DH has joined a Civil War reenactment group. He wanted to be a medic. They want him as infantry... Yeah, a fresh target!

 

[Amberjem]

Sorry folks I havent been keeping up.... Skimming the posts but not reading. I am a bit under the weather right now. Nothin major just my concentration isnt good. I go through it now and then.

If I missed somethign I apologize.

deb

 

[Amberjem]

Oops! I see what you're saying. It wasn't a barred rock cross cross.

In any event, barred rocks are not auto-sexing, so an every-single-time sex indicator is not in the cards. Like, for instance, if you bred to black birds (Australorps, Black Marans) or solid whites (White Rocks, Leghorns) to a barred rock hen the barring on the resultant chicks wouldn't mean anything except that's their coloring.

It's important to know the lineage of your parent stock to be able to predict sex-links.






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ahh ok thanks.. it had just suddenly struck me the other day dotty was a barred rock cross so why wasnt the color right she barred rock amercana/java/faverollie

 

[Amberjem]

morning @BriardChickens

and wow sorry to hear about your loss

 

[BriardChickens]

Morning AJ!

Grandpa had a great live, he was a month shy of 97! Had a brilliant mind until his last day, you could still ask him Chemics and mathematic questions. He died of kidney failure.