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[wingstone]

This batch all hatched together out of shipped eggs, mostly ee's (I think) but one I can not figure out and neither can the person the eggs came from.little guy or girl in front is the one in question....will add other pictures just for comparison.and a few more just because they are cute !the 2 little black sex link are a different hatch.

 

[my sunwolf]

Cute EE's and love the little blond naked neck (??). Have no idea what the chick in front in the first pic is but it's cute!

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

Sorry can't help. But the naked neck is a beauty.

 

[Pele]

The first grey EE/mix is a rooster. You can see the red patches coming in on his shoulders.

It's kind of hard to see in the second photo, but the red bird in the middle appears to be another EE rooster

The third EE, red one with a black face, need a nice side-shot of it's body to determine gender.

The fourth EE, pure grey, is most likely a hen

Your little red youngster is most likely a production red, or a NH red. Too young for gender, doesn't have any roo signs

The turken is too young to guess gender on

 

[wingstone]

Thanks, since I would like to keep atleast 1 ee rooster, looks like I will have a few to choose from,,,,should I look for anything specific when choosing, only 2 of them have the green legs, and only a few of them have the puffy cheeks.....my customers want green eggs and they want chicks that will lay green eggs...I really need to do some research on genetics and how to pass certain traits on?

 

[Pele]

The best way to test what color eggs the roo will pass along is to mate him with a white egg layer and raise the offspring until they lay. The white will be neutral, and whatever he is carrying will overlay the shell to tint it. So say he's carrying blue and you mate him to a leghorn hen. The female offspring will lay blue eggs. If he's carrying brown, and you mate him to a leghorn, the female offspring will lay brown eggs. etc.

If you can't keep roos around for that long, then pick from the roosters with a pea comb (which they all look like they have). The pea comb gene resides very close genetically to the blue egg gene. They don't commonly seperate during the rehashing of genes during the creation of life because they're so close to each other. It happens, but it's not common.

Past that, just pick the roo with the colors you like, and that isn't human aggressive. Those are the most important traits.

 

[dinahmoe]

i can't help you out but that little NN is cute but it may be that i love dinosaurs.