Dixie Chicks

[bamadude]

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I'll keep that in mind. Hopefully they have more then 1 choice but I am thinking what ever it is, it'll hold more then 7 . Go with a Gqf if u can. I have had bad luck with little giants

 

[minihorse927]

I'll keep that in mind. Hopefully they have more then 1 choice but I am thinking what ever it is, it'll hold more then 7 eggs.

preferably GQF! I got to where I could hatch my own chick's in those LG'S I had but ducks I didn't have great luck with.

 

[minihorse927]

Cj is shipping my isabels May 11. Yours look perrty

I love those little isabels. They're growing like weeds.

 

[Alaskan]

Well that's good.

I tried for about 20 minutes, all kinds of configurations on how to fit 11 eggs into the brinsea 7. Long story short 8 fit. I candled the 4 remaining from broody, 3 have veining, 1 is a maybe.

Tomorrow I am planning on driving to a feed store 1 1/2 hrs away from here. They have incubators. Trying to keep the eggs somewhat warm in the attic until then.

That sounds like a heart stress test... lots of things to make you panic.

And I can't figure out why my ducks failed me..... no idea really.

Mini, those chick's are super cute!

Oh.... I had decided to keep one chock from my olive eggs... see if it is a girl and if it got the blue egg gene
... AND GUESS WHAT? The super cute chuck (super fluffy cheeks and a pea comb) is starting to develop a crossed beak. Man.... when it rains it pours. Now I have to kill it, AND wonder which of my stock had it.... is crossed beak a clear recessive gene? Or is it a mix of who knows what?

 

[minihorse927]

Honestly I'm not sure on that alaskan. I had a chicken (it didn't hatch) that I was doing an eggtopsy on and that poor thing had horrible cross beak. The bottom one was completely sideways (and probably why it failed to hatch).

 

[minihorse927]

I'd say it would be very hard to figure out which chicken is carrying that.

I know, flame me if you must, if it's not that bad and it can eat and drink on its own, why not just keep it for an egg layer if it's a pullet?

 

[Alaskan]

I only wanted to keep it if I could use it as a breeder.

Also, I had heard/read that the cross beak keeps getting worse as the chick's grows. And, I would hate for it to grow up, us get attached to it, and then it not be able to eat.

 

[minihorse927]

Eh not always with cross beak. Sometimes it does get worse sometimes it doesn't. Seems that the worst cases hatch with it and those get bad.

Yeah, that one will do no good as a breeder.

 

[Ravynscroft]

That sounds like a heart stress test... lots of things to make you panic.

And I can't figure out why my ducks failed me..... no idea really.

Mini, those chick's are super cute!

Oh.... I had decided to keep one chock from my olive eggs... see if it is a girl and if it got the blue egg gene
... AND GUESS WHAT? The super cute chuck (super fluffy cheeks and a pea comb) is starting to develop a crossed beak. Man.... when it rains it pours. Now I have to kill it, AND wonder which of my stock had it.... is crossed beak a clear recessive gene? Or is it a mix of who knows what?

Crossbeak can be caused by temp fluctuations in the bator as well, just is the practice of most to assume it is genetic... if it is only slight it usually doesn't get worse... bad ones just get worse... I have a useless roo we kept like that... :/

 

[bamadude]

I personally do not do special needs chicks. Krista will not agree to me culling anything..(and she never leaves).
Craigslist works well to rehome free chicks