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

[dan26552]

Can I still mate them? 

Sure go ahead, just don't keep any with a crest. It shouldn't cause a problem if only one carries it, however I would either sell all their offspring and get different stock that doesn't have crests instead of keeping the offspring or I'd cross them to a different duck to see whether or not they carry the gene. I might even cross your grown ducks to a different one, say put the drake with a different hen and the hen with a different drake,and see which one throws crests.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I would like to Question this statement, but I never do that anymore. All I know is I am 600 miles or more north of you and older than the hills and I remember a few odd snows in June (very few) but have never had ice on the streams up here in June....



The record low temps in Columbia ( which I know is not the ozarks but a tad north of it) kind of agrees with me:

JUNE - COLUMBIA WEATHER CALENDAR

SUN RECORD TEMPS NORMAL TEMPS PRECIPITATION RECORD PRECIP. RISE SET HIGH YEAR LOW YEAR HIGH LOW MEAN MONTH YEAR AMOUNT YEAR 1 5:45 8:28 100 1934 43 1894 79 58 69 0.15 16.70 2.91 1902 2 5:45 8:29 98 1934 45 1956 79 59 69 0.31 16.86 2.06 1923 3 5:44 8:30 97 1911 45 1945 80 59 69 0.45 17.00 2.72 1965 4 5:44 8:30 97 1911 42 1897 80 59 70 0.60 17.15 2.42 1998 5 5:44 8:31 97 1911 40 1993 80 60 70 0.75 17.30 1.52 1943 6 5:44 8:32 96 1934 43 1894 80 60 70 0.90 17.45 3.21 1993 7 5:43 8:32 97 1934 43 1894 81 60 71 1.06 17.61 3.19 1945 8 5:43 8:33 95 1958 45 1930 81 61 71 1.20 17.75 2.82 1943 9 5:43 8:33 100 1911 45 1913 81 61 71 1.35 17.90 1.65 2004 10 5:43 8:34 102 1911 47 1913 82 61 72 1.49 18.04 1.92 2005 11 5:43 8:34 100 1918 43 1913 82 62 72 1.64 18.19 1.46 1985 12 5:43 8:35 98 1952 43 1903 82 62 72 1.79 18.34 1.74 1929 13 5:43 8:35 100 1953 42 1903 83 62 72 1.94 18.48 1.41 1927 14 5:43 8:36 99 1987 45 1945 83 63 73 2.10 18.64 2.54 1974 15 5:43 8:36 99 2016 46 1917 83 63 73 2.25 18.79 3.18 1898 16 5:43 8:36 100 1936 46 1917 83 63 73 2.40 18.94 2.07 1975 17 5:43 8:37 101 1918 47 1999 84 64 73 2.55 19.09 2.99 1985 18 5:43 8:37 100 1953 50 1999 84 64 73 2.70 19.24 1.15 1973 19 5:43 8:37 105 1936 48 1912 84 64 74 2.84 19.40 4.79 1928 20 5:43 8:38 98 1988 50 1976 84 64 74 3.00 19.55 2.07 1927 21 5:43 8:38 98 1988 47 1992 85 65 75 3.15 19.70 2.75 1981 22 5:44 8:38 100 1988 43 1902 85 65 75 3.30 19.85 1.72 1969 23 5:44 8:38 100 1988 51 1903 85 65 75 3.45 20.00 2.97 1940 24 5:44 8:38 103 1988 50 1974 86 65 75 3.60 20.15 3.27 1955 25 5:45 8:38 102 1988 50 1974 86 66 76 3.74 20.29 3.00 2003 26 5:45 8:38 102 1954 50 1974 86 66 76 3.89 20.44 2.33 1995 27 5:45 8:38 103 2012 48 1926 86 66 76 4.03 20.58 2.58 1909 28 5:46 8:38 107 2012 53 1985 86 66 76 4.18 20.73 3.46 1928 29 5:46 8:38 104 2012 51 1923 86 66 76 4.33 20.88 2.87 1909 30 5:46 8:38 103 1901 51 1943 86 66 76 4.47 21.02 2.02 1945NOTE: The actual sunrise sunset times may vary by a minute or two from year to year.

The spring didn't flow and we were just about 15 miles as the crow flies from the highest point in MO (Taum Sauk Mtn.) in the St. Francis Mountains.
In the center of a triangle made by Fredericktown, Ironton and Farmington.
Sometimes it was extremely hot and miserable (with the humidity) but there were summer mornings you could see your breath in those hills during cold snaps.

ETA
I was wearing insulated jeans yesterday. Today I'm wearing shorts and it is 84 right now.
Yesterday we had a wind chill, today we have a heat index.

 

[dan26552]

Can I still mate them? (This stinks) and what about the uncrested ducklings, I'm guessing they carry it.

The uncrested duckling might carry it. Think of it as a punnett square, say for example the BB is crested and the bb is crestless. You just have to figure out which carry it and which don't.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

Sure go ahead, just don't keep any with a crest. It shouldn't cause a problem if only one carries it, however I would either sell all their offspring and get different stock that doesn't have crests instead of keeping the offspring or I'd cross them to a different duck to see whether or not they carry the gene. I might even cross your grown ducks to a different one, say put the drake with a different hen and the hen with a different drake,and see which one throws crests.

Well it just so happens that in my next hatch i am doing the magpie drakex a campbell hen. If the babies have crests i will know. I was planning on keeping some of the babies so i could get extra eggs and more magpie babies and i still want to do that. I only have one crested by the way and when i said can i mate them i meant can i keep mating the parents. This is annoying :/ .

 

[The Duck Ladie]

The uncrested duckling might carry it. Think of it as a punnett square, say for example the BB is crested and the bb is crestless. You just have to figure out which carry it and which don't.

That would take awhile to find out though...

 

[dan26552]

Well it just so happens that in my next hatch i am doing the magpie drakex a campbell hen. If the babies have crests i will know. I was planning on keeping some of the babies so i could get extra eggs and more magpie babies and i still want to do that. I only have one crested by the way and when i said can i mate them i meant can i keep mating the parents. This is annoying :/ .

Good luck. Yes, yes it is annoying. Hatching in small numbers messes with the ratio and they don't always show it. Go ahead keep them for eggs, I do. If you can figure out which is throwing them then I don't really see much of a problem breeding back to the crestless parent but only the first gens, I wouldn't recommend breeding back any further.

 

[dan26552]

That would take awhile to find out though...

Yep.

 

[Pensmaster]

She just packaged and shipped this morning. ETA is the 23.
I am glad your shipped eggs (For Benny) arrived well.

 

[duluthralphie]

The spring didn't flow and we were just about 15 miles as the crow flies from the highest point in MO (Taum Sauk Mtn.) in the St. Francis Mountains.
In the center of a triangle made by Fredericktown, Ironton and Farmington.
Sometimes it was extremely hot and miserable (with the humidity) but there were summer mornings you could see your breath in those hills during cold snaps.

ETA
I was wearing insulated jeans yesterday. Today I'm wearing shorts and it is 84 right now.
Yesterday we had a wind chill, today we have a heat index.

Sorry, still not buying it I lived in Grand Portage on the shores of lake Superior and the border to the Vast Wasteland of the North, and traveled the back country for years never saw in June. other than shaded snow pack which was pretty granular and almost gone..

The list of peaks in Mo, seem to top out under 1,800 ft. Eagle Mountain which was very close to me was 2300 ft.

 

[Phage]

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