EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[lovechicks1293]

What does barred mean?

Barred like this:

Oh right, duh

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

GOOD MORNING, COFFEE CREW! IT IS A GORGEOUS SATURDAY MORNING! THE MOON IS BRIGHT, AND GLISTENING OFF THE SNOW! THE CARROT ON THE ONE PART OF THE SNOWMAN IS SHRIVELED. IT IS GOING TO BE A WONDERFUL DAY!
IF ANYONE HEARS ME GIGGLING, GET THE MEN IN THE WHITE COATS!

Morning, MC! How's Duckling?

Quote: What does barred mean?
Barred is a term for a type of inherited feather color pattern that can be different between males and females (depending on how many copies there are).

"Auto sexing" breeds are breeds for which you can tell male from female at hatch. Cream Legbars are a common example. Here is a discussion of auto sexing on the Greenfire site:

https://greenfirefarms.com/auto-sexing-chicken-breeds.html

But there are also many "sex links" which are crosses between certain breeds that are done in a particular way so that you can tell male from female at hatch. Common ones from hatcheries/feed stores are Red Sexlinks and Black Sexlinks. To understand how to "make" a sex link, you kind of have to go down the rabbit hole of chicken color genetics. There are threads on BYC where people talk about which crosses can give you a sexable hatch - those folks know more than I do by a lot...

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Good Morning all,,or Good day..




Still bumming over my poor hatch rate. ( to come). Winter just vacuums here. So hard to get good eggs.





@Akrnaf2 Might I ask what you do for a living? Your knowledge of microbiology and medical stuff is amazing. Want to come here and figure out my poor hatches?

@BantyChooks I am suddenly feeling jealous of your poor hatches that are way better than mine.


I need coffee BRB!

They're not perzactly looking like they're going to be improving.... Day 29 on the ducks now and nothing.

 

[duluthralphie]

They're not perzactly looking like they're going to be improving.... Day 29 on the ducks now and nothing.

Sad isn't it? BUT it is still better than living the land of hot and muggy. We will just struggle through.

 

[NaJoBeLe]

Morning everybody. Hope you all have a wonderful day. Busy day but i will be in and out.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I think that breeds with a chipmunk pattern are an autosexing chick too, right?

No, many chicks with "chipmunk" down are not auto sexing. That chipmunk pattern, in its simplest expression, means that the chick has a certain genetic background (e+, I think). In Cream Legbars specifically, females have the very clear chipmunk look to their down, and this is disrupted in males, who have a white spot on their heads and less clear lines down he back.

The signs are different for each cross or auto sexing breed (though ones based on the barring gene all count on the head spot - I think).

(I'm not sure I've had enough coffee yet for this discussion, so I'll stop talking...

)

 

[lovechicks1293]

The place where I'm getting our chicks has these breeds:

Isa Browns
Amber links
Black Sussex (me, probably(2)
RIR
barred rock(brother(1)
Australorps
Leghorns
Aru-Americana(sister(1)
SLW
GLW(twin(1)
Brahma
Buff orpingtons

Then my two nieces are each getting one and my mom is picking one out.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I woke up to babies in the 'bator! One Puppy egg has not pipped (and it was one of two that did not have draw down at 18 days). Today is day 21, so I'll give it the rest of the day to declare itself before pulling the plug. (Sorry for the blurry picture.)




Everyone is now happily sleeping under the MHP.

- Ant Farm

 

[duluthralphie]

No, many chicks with "chipmunk" down are not auto sexing. That chipmunk pattern, in its simplest expression, means that the chick has a certain genetic background (e+, I think). In Cream Legbars specifically, females have the very clear chipmunk look to their down, and this is disrupted in males, who have a white spot on their heads and less clear lines down he back.

The signs are different for each cross or auto sexing breed (though ones based on the barring gene all count on the head spot - I think).

(I'm not sure I've had enough coffee yet for this discussion, so I'll stop talking...

)

I think you're right, however, there is some skill needed to pick them out too. Legbars I can pick the Doms Cuckoo Marans I am not good at.

 

[lovechicks1293]

I think that breeds with a chipmunk pattern are an autosexing chick too, right?

No, many chicks with "chipmunk" down are not auto sexing. That chipmunk pattern, in its simplest expression, means that the chick has a certain genetic background (e+, I think). In Cream Legbars specifically, females have the very clear chipmunk look to their down, and this is disrupted in males, who have a white spot on their heads and less clear lines down he back. 

The signs are different for each cross or auto sexing breed (though ones based on the barring gene all count on the head spot - I think). 

(I'm not sure I've had enough coffee yet for this discussion, so I'll stop talking...  )

You are a very good explainer