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[debilorrah]

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Your cochins are due Monday.....

Oh.... I'd not realized so soon... (i've been attempting pacience). I'll set up the brooder in the playroom.

I'll be gettin ahold of you as soon as they pop out!

 

[Southernbelle]

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Oh my goodness! It's on You Tube

It makes me more tired just listening to it!

No more running around, I just need to lie down and sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

 

[saddina]

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Oh.... I'd not realized so soon... (i've been attempting pacience). I'll set up the brooder in the playroom.

I'll be gettin ahold of you as soon as they pop out!

Wonder where the box went?

 

[debilorrah]

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I'll be gettin ahold of you as soon as they pop out!

Wonder where the box went?

Box?

 

[saddina]

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Wonder where the box went?

Box?

We have one of those plastic hampster-type boxes, we used it to pick up chicks and quarentne hurt quail.... mr saddi unpacked it.... somewhere.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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Are you keeping the babies or selling them?

I'll probably sell at least some of this batch. I want to grow out some of the sex-links to make sure they really are sex-links, but I don't want to keep them forever.

I'll keep a few to replace my laying flock (who are slacking off in the laying arena). I'll sell all the roos and possibly some of the pullets. I have a couple of people asking for some. I really just wanted to see how they would hatch before I started mailing them off and sending them to people. So far so good. I've been very impressed with the number of developing eggs from these boys. I do want to grow some out to see what color the EE eggs are. Just to know, you know?

So can you get a barred female from a cross when the roo is the non-barred bird or are the barreds always male in that case? What should happen with your sex link mix?

 

[Southernbelle]

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Are you keeping the babies or selling them?

I'll probably sell at least some of this batch. I want to grow out some of the sex-links to make sure they really are sex-links, but I don't want to keep them forever.

I'll keep a few to replace my laying flock (who are slacking off in the laying arena). I'll sell all the roos and possibly some of the pullets. I have a couple of people asking for some. I really just wanted to see how they would hatch before I started mailing them off and sending them to people. So far so good. I've been very impressed with the number of developing eggs from these boys. I do want to grow some out to see what color the EE eggs are. Just to know, you know?

So can you get a barred female from a cross when the roo is the non-barred bird or are the barreds always male in that case? What should happen with your sex link mix?

In a Black sex-link, the boy offspring will grow up barred, the girls are that solid black with some reddish in the chest area. It only works with a red roo over barred hens, so I think Cuckoo marans hens would work, too, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Most people use a RIR roo for sex-link crosses, but I've heard a Welsummer roo works, too, but I need to see for myself.

I also have one Delaware pullet in that pen and her female offspring should be red and the males white. I've had one reddish chick pop out of a brown egg, so here's to hoping

Take pictures of your babies and let me know where to look for them! I can't wait to see what those EE crosses look like. I have to wait to post pictures until my husband comes home with our camera.

 

[Southernbelle]

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All I know about sex-links, I learned on here. SL offspring doesn't breed true, so you'll have to wait it out. Sorry, darlin.

Edited to fix my smiley

 

[debilorrah]

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What is with that guy and leeks???

 

[saddina]

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What is with that guy and leeks???

They're in season, and potato-leek soup is his favorite.