Everything Chicken Chatter Thread

[MysteryChicken]

They got even more chicks at TSC now.


I figured out why their chicks get mislabeled. We were looking at the Buff Brahma chicks, & said they were Golden Laced Wyandottes, because that's what the hatchery labeled them as.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I found something interesting.

Bantam dwarfism, dwBEdit​

Bantam dwarfism is a variety of dwarfism existing in many breeds of bantam chickens . Bantam chickens are also called miniatures. These birds are popular as pets, but Bantam hens are also renowned for hatching and brooding because they are very protective mothers and will attack anything that gets near their young.

The reciprocal crosses made between normal sized chickens with Bantams revealed that Bantams carry one or several sex-linked dominant genes that reduce body size.[21][22] This mutation is present in Sebright Bantams and probably other bantams. This mutation is thought to be an allele at the Dw locus and to be different from the allele dw.[23]

In genetics, the common convention is that most dominant alleles are written as capital letters and recessive alleles as lower-case letters (see: Dominance (genetics)). In spite of this, literature refers to the gene of Bantam dwarfism with the lower-case symbol dwB.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'm bored.

 

[MysteryChicken]

@BantammChick, wanna join my new thread?

 

[MGG]

Can I join? Hi!

 

[MysteryChicken]

Can I join? Hi!

Yes.

 

[MGG]

Yes.

Thanks!
I got 6 eggs today!

 

[MysteryChicken]

Thanks!
I got 6 eggs today!

I got 15 eggs today.

 

[MGG]

I got 15 eggs today.

Awesome!

 

[MysteryChicken]

This thing isn't working.