Dixie Chicks

[Ravynscroft]

Yep, I wanna see...

 

[Alaskan]

Me too! I wanna see!


So..... Votes..... I wait for all of these roosters to grow out...... And then look them over and...


Cull based solely on conformation?

Keep whichever two have the best body shape? Ignore color?

Or..... Keep (as long as conformation is at least good) my way overly colored boy, and the blue boy......

But then, could I keep both roosters and the hens all together in one spot.... Would there be any way to tell the black chicks from the copper chicks?

Also, Mr. Blue Marans hatched from a blah color egg (NOT good color). But, he is cool.... A blue.... color..... how much will he mess up the egg color of the chicks that he sires?

Arg! Sounds like I need two pens, one for the blue dude, hatch blue chicks from him, keep the blue girls and breed them back to my much better egg color chickens. Maybe I could just do one big hatch from him, and then get rid of him?

 

[BriardChickens]

Oh @Beer can that is all kinds of bad

About 2 months... Which makes me think that it has to be male.... So I use it to breed and say I am selling Black and Blue Marans? Not copper???

@BriardChickens just a little hole at the top on the air cell... So you can see what is going on.... Because these are past due, right?


@RavynFallen yep... That guy!

That's the plan Alaskan. Now, if there isn't movement maybe i'll poke some....

I say male and I'd do what raven said.

Anyone want me to post a pic of a super awesome deformed quail (it didn't hatch, I was breaking unhatched eggs). I'll use the spoiler button

so not everyone has to look at it.

YES!

 

[BriardChickens]

@Alaskan you might just need to built a rooster grow out pen.As long as there are no pullets, no fights. or so i hear.

 

[minihorse927]

I really hope I'm doing this right...

 

[minihorse927]

It has 2 fully formed top beaks with 2 sets of nostrils and the center looks like the 2 eyes formed into one. It has 1 eye of each side of its head and 1 ear hole on each side. Everything else appears normal.

 

[minihorse927]

Me too! I wanna see!


So..... Votes..... I wait for all of these roosters to grow out...... And then look them over and...


Cull based solely on conformation?

Keep whichever two have the best body shape? Ignore color?

Or..... Keep (as long as conformation is at least good) my way overly colored boy, and the blue boy......

But then, could I keep both roosters and the hens all together in one spot.... Would there be any way to tell the black chicks from the copper chicks?

Also, Mr. Blue Marans hatched from a blah color egg (NOT good color). But, he is cool.... A blue....

color..... how much will he mess up the egg color of the chicks that he sires?

Arg!

Sounds like I need two pens, one for the blue dude, hatch blue chicks from him, keep the blue girls and breed them back to my much better egg color chickens. Maybe I could just do one big hatch from him, and then get rid of him?

I vote you grow them out and see what you get. Build your bridge, then you paint it.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Wow! 1 head split into 2 halfway to the top??

 

[Ravynscroft]

I vote you grow them out and see what you get.  Build your bridge, then you paint it.

x2

 

[minihorse927]

Wow! 1 head split into 2 halfway to the top??

It is 2 heads! It has 2 fully formed top beaks and both beaks have 2 nostrils. The bottom has a small extra bit that looks like the bottoms fused. I cracked the egg and was like, no way!