getting to a delaware

[DuckBoy]

CAn you see LOL its there.

 

[tadkerson]

CAn you see LOL its there.

How many of the chicks did you hatch?

 

[DuckBoy]

Five total two are a week older then the other three and i have 24 in the incubator now why do you ask.

 

[nicalandia]

CAn you see LOL its there.

I told you so, oh its there, remember always breed the best male back to NH hens

 

[DuckBoy]

now just watch and grow

 

[DuckBoy]

Question of my two that hatched out on the same day the bigger one has grown feathers alot faster and has tail feather and litte barring, verse the other witch has barring and not tail feathers yet. Could the one thats growing feathers faster be a hen?

 

[Jake Levi]

Do a search here for 'Kathy in Mo'.

She has a many generation project of Delawares and is producing some beautiful ones. Color, type, the whole chicken. She sells eggs and chicks.

 

[nicalandia]

Question of my two that hatched out on the same day the bigger one has grown feathers alot faster and has tail feather and litte barring, verse the other witch has barring and not tail feathers yet. Could the one thats growing feathers faster be a hen?

this is the case for me, the hens featherout much faster, BUT you will never know, let them grow..

 

[catdaddyfro]

this is the case for me, the hens featherout much faster, BUT you will never know, let them grow..

Even on hetero-barred birds? I could see this on a slow feathering type males, like the real old time Barred Rocks with the male having the more crisp, lighter, finer barring, but these darker more cuckoo colored/patterned, heterozygous barred half breeds, I've never noticed a difference in feather rates (m/f) with the exception of just slower maturing ones late bloomers or non thrifty types which were either sex, more than likely.

Jeff

 

[nicalandia]

Even on hetero-barred birds?

Jeff

yes