Easter Egger club!

[HerbGir1972]

we just love this fellow
Marty makes walking difficult
But his gentile nature makes hi

m a fave

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Kenzier093 I will try to give you a idea of what you could get from that cross . Beards are a dominant trait so you will get all beards if your rooster has 2 copies of the gene . Only 50% beards if he has 1 copy . Your rooster is a splash as stated in previous posts . So he will produce blue in his chick's black areas . Your sex link hens are white in the normally black areas due to 1 copy of dominant white . So 50% of the chicks will inherit 1 copy of dominant white gene and be white in those black areas . The other 50% will be blue in the normally black areas . Red is sex linked so all males will have a lot of red from their mother and white or blue in the black areas . The hens will inherit the normal brown EE hen color from the rooster and be white or blue in the black areas . You should look up the chicken calculator online . I think you would enjoy using it for possible crosses .

Stuff like this always fascinates me.

 

[mymilliefleur]

Stuff like this always fascinates me.

Same here. there is so much to genetics.

 

[HerbGir1972]

Set 30 Easter Egger Eggs today, anyone close to Prosperity, SC I will have Christmas Chicks Hatch Date 12/23 Give your chicken lover a card with a hint, and come pick em up, discount for 5+

 

[redrooster99]

Could I get black chickens by mixing this cockeral

With this black hen.

These are not good pictures and if you need better ones I can get them later today.

And if I was to breed him to this one......

Could I get a white bird with black spots.

 

[mrbigschickens]

Here's a picture of Mr Big and his friend Culeen.
Who says Rottweilers are big and mean? LoL

 

[redrooster99]

And if anyone wants to know or has been wondering about what my whole flock looks like together.

All 24 of them.

 

[redrooster99]

And I got a couple picks of my 2 EE Roos at either 13 or 14 weeks of age, beside each other for comparison.

And this is bugsy ( the huge one ) by himself.

 

[redrooster99]

About how many weeks before my roo starts to crow they are 14 or 15 weeks old now.

 

[ochochicas]

It depends on the rooster. I had one that started to crow at 5 weeks. My cockerel now is 18 weeks and has not crowed yet. He is starting to dance around the pullets so I'm sure it is coming soon.