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If you have blacks cross a Black rooster of the Mottled Hens or vice versa.
If you have blacks cross a Black rooster of the Mottled Hens or vice versa.
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Oh the BBS genetics is the same no matter the breed.
I was just wondering if it would be better for me to pair the black boy with the black hen to maybe get better blacks, or put him with the splash to get all blues, or put the splash girl with one of the blues to get blue and splash, and so on.
I know little of the mottled gene, but I would go with either blue or black. I should pull out my genetics book.
I would also be interested in hearing people's opinion on the Poultry Press. Maybe I'll give myself a Christmas present.
On the Poultry Press I had subscribed to it for years. I loved it. I let it go for a few years and miss it. I am going to get it again. This will tell you when all the shows are coming up plus some other interesting reading.
Dick
Oh the BBS genetics is the same no matter the breed.
I know little of the mottled gene, but I would go with either blue or black. I should pull out my genetics book.
I would also be interested in hearing people's opinion on the Poultry Press. Maybe I'll give myself a Christmas present.
On the Poultry Press I had subscribed to it for years. I loved it. I let it go for a few years and miss it. I am going to get it again. This will tell you when all the shows are coming up plus some other interesting reading.
Dick
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Cindy, I hate to be stupid, but would you not want to pair you BBS together like silkies or do the genetics not work that way? I'm stabbing in the dark here.
Dick, I desperately need your advice on what to do/how to incorp a mottled (or 3) into my current program. I have no mott adults, these were surprise babies and I need direction/input from someone who's had experience with them. I only have blue, black, splash, A lavender and salmon/blue salmon birds.
The mottles came about because of an ermine pullet I got from England. Ermine or columbian is close to the mottled gene. I feel you need to get a mottled bird like a mille fleur and breed it to your black hen. It would be a start.
Dick
Cindy, I hate to be stupid, but would you not want to pair you BBS together like silkies or do the genetics not work that way? I'm stabbing in the dark here.
Dick, I desperately need your advice on what to do/how to incorp a mottled (or 3) into my current program. I have no mott adults, these were surprise babies and I need direction/input from someone who's had experience with them. I only have blue, black, splash, A lavender and salmon/blue salmon birds.
The mottles came about because of an ermine pullet I got from England. Ermine or columbian is close to the mottled gene. I feel you need to get a mottled bird like a mille fleur and breed it to your black hen. It would be a start.
Dick
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It's very expensive to get birds from England. I had some eggs sent to me years ago and the only one that hatched was the Ermine pullet. I wouldn't attempt it now. I think you could end up paying a $10,000 fine. Rose Isgrigg went to France and brought some eggs home. Its sad what they do to them. She had all the legal papers which cost her a pretty penny. I believe at the airport in France they washed every egg that she was bringing home. I think she had about 40 eggs. When she got back to the states they washed every egg again. I believe she said only 2 hatched one was a bantam salmon male where one of his legs wasn't right and the other was a silver gray Dorking hen. She told me it was to expensive to try again.
Dick
It's very expensive to get birds from England. I had some eggs sent to me years ago and the only one that hatched was the Ermine pullet. I wouldn't attempt it now. I think you could end up paying a $10,000 fine. Rose Isgrigg went to France and brought some eggs home. Its sad what they do to them. She had all the legal papers which cost her a pretty penny. I believe at the airport in France they washed every egg that she was bringing home. I think she had about 40 eggs. When she got back to the states they washed every egg again. I believe she said only 2 hatched one was a bantam salmon male where one of his legs wasn't right and the other was a silver gray Dorking hen. She told me it was to expensive to try again.
Dick
Yes it was sad that Rose had to go the expense to do that. I thought she only got a pullet out of that lot.
Great looking pics, Dick and I love the colors....a rainbow of all sorts!
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It's very expensive to get birds from England. I had some eggs sent to me years ago and the only one that hatched was the Ermine pullet. I wouldn't attempt it now. I think you could end up paying a $10,000 fine. Rose Isgrigg went to France and brought some eggs home. Its sad what they do to them. She had all the legal papers which cost her a pretty penny. I believe at the airport in France they washed every egg that she was bringing home. I think she had about 40 eggs. When she got back to the states they washed every egg again. I believe she said only 2 hatched one was a bantam salmon male where one of his legs wasn't right and the other was a silver gray Dorking hen. She told me it was to expensive to try again.
Dick
That's horrible! Boy, the ignorance of some paranoid people! Like those who shut down the hatching program in our school after 20 years, because all the kids were going to get bird flu. Anyway, I asked because the orpingtons seemed to have been invaded by "English" style birds, s o I was wondering how people were getting them.
It's very expensive to get birds from England. I had some eggs sent to me years ago and the only one that hatched was the Ermine pullet. I wouldn't attempt it now. I think you could end up paying a $10,000 fine. Rose Isgrigg went to France and brought some eggs home. Its sad what they do to them. She had all the legal papers which cost her a pretty penny. I believe at the airport in France they washed every egg that she was bringing home. I think she had about 40 eggs. When she got back to the states they washed every egg again. I believe she said only 2 hatched one was a bantam salmon male where one of his legs wasn't right and the other was a silver gray Dorking hen. She told me it was to expensive to try again.
Dick
That's horrible! Boy, the ignorance of some paranoid people! Like those who shut down the hatching program in our school after 20 years, because all the kids were going to get bird flu. Anyway, I asked because the orpingtons seemed to have been invaded by "English" style birds, s o I was wondering how people were getting them.
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It's very expensive to get birds from England. I had some eggs sent to me years ago and the only one that hatched was the Ermine pullet. I wouldn't attempt it now. I think you could end up paying a $10,000 fine. Rose Isgrigg went to France and brought some eggs home. Its sad what they do to them. She had all the legal papers which cost her a pretty penny. I believe at the airport in France they washed every egg that she was bringing home. I think she had about 40 eggs. When she got back to the states they washed every egg again. I believe she said only 2 hatched one was a bantam salmon male where one of his legs wasn't right and the other was a silver gray Dorking hen. She told me it was to expensive to try again.
Dick
That's horrible! Boy, the ignorance of some paranoid people! Like those who shut down the hatching program in our school after 20 years, because all the kids were going to get bird flu. Anyway, I asked because the orpingtons seemed to have been invaded by "English" style birds, s o I was wondering how people were getting them.
It would be interesting to find out who imported them and what the cost was. I wonder how many birds were imported.
Dick
It's very expensive to get birds from England. I had some eggs sent to me years ago and the only one that hatched was the Ermine pullet. I wouldn't attempt it now. I think you could end up paying a $10,000 fine. Rose Isgrigg went to France and brought some eggs home. Its sad what they do to them. She had all the legal papers which cost her a pretty penny. I believe at the airport in France they washed every egg that she was bringing home. I think she had about 40 eggs. When she got back to the states they washed every egg again. I believe she said only 2 hatched one was a bantam salmon male where one of his legs wasn't right and the other was a silver gray Dorking hen. She told me it was to expensive to try again.
Dick
That's horrible! Boy, the ignorance of some paranoid people! Like those who shut down the hatching program in our school after 20 years, because all the kids were going to get bird flu. Anyway, I asked because the orpingtons seemed to have been invaded by "English" style birds, s o I was wondering how people were getting them.
It would be interesting to find out who imported them and what the cost was. I wonder how many birds were imported.
Dick
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No snow yet in Burlington which is weird it flurried last night though while I was down at the barn. Hopefully some cows should be calving out tonight and tomorrow and I want to go down and learn how so I should be busy for a while.
Henry
Well, you've likely got your work cut out for you Henry! The last calf that I dealt with was one that when my friend and I were supposed to go have a "girls night out", we thought we'd better check "just one more time" on the heifer that was due...ended up spending the next 4 hours pulling her calf! In "go out" clothes! Yuck. It was much better than going out though!!
Have fun!
Yep we pulled him today a fregin 116 Holstein calf inside a heifer. The calving ease of the sire sucks all the bulls from this breeding have had to be pulled.
No snow yet in Burlington which is weird it flurried last night though while I was down at the barn. Hopefully some cows should be calving out tonight and tomorrow and I want to go down and learn how so I should be busy for a while.
Henry
Well, you've likely got your work cut out for you Henry! The last calf that I dealt with was one that when my friend and I were supposed to go have a "girls night out", we thought we'd better check "just one more time" on the heifer that was due...ended up spending the next 4 hours pulling her calf! In "go out" clothes! Yuck. It was much better than going out though!!
Yep we pulled him today a fregin 116 Holstein calf inside a heifer. The calving ease of the sire sucks all the bulls from this breeding have had to be pulled.
I recently subscribed to the Poultry Press myself. I enjoy the articles and love looking at the many pics. It also is great to see who breeds what and where they are located. Its also nice to now actually recognize a few of the names that I see there.
I have a question about breeding pens as I am planning to build some over the winter months. What size of pens do you use for breeding purposes? Do you follow the 10 square foot per bird rule or should they be larger?
I have a question about breeding pens as I am planning to build some over the winter months. What size of pens do you use for breeding purposes? Do you follow the 10 square foot per bird rule or should they be larger?
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