Got my 1st broody...put 12 eggs under her...

[TheJuan-n-Only]

So my olive egger, my youngest bird, was my 1st to go broody (she also laid the earliest)...today 1 put 3 Dominique roo RIR hen cross and 9 Dominique roo and silver laced wyndottes cross....wish me luck!!!!

Wonder what that mix is gonna look like....

 

[spartacus_63]

Good Luck!

 

[Ole rooster]

One of the pullets that hatched here Dec 12th is already laying. She is a Wyandotte/EE cross. Her eggs are about the size of quail eggs but she laying. She turned out to look like here mama other than a single comb. I thought to start with she was a sexlink cross. But she is so much larger than the sexlink. The others hatched are BO crosses. They look like mama. Except one has a single comb and two has the rose comb. The two cockerels I sold had a rose comb and a single. The single comb one was red where the rose was buff. A real mix.

 

[TheJuan-n-Only]

Very cool thx!

 

[nurse_turtle]

If you had a RIR rooster over a barred rock hen, you'd have black sex links and could tell their genders on the day of hatch. With a Barred rooster, you will have chicks that grow to be barred. Their color won't necessarily be black and white barred, but feather barring is a dominant gene.

 

[theoldchick]

12 eggs! Wow you are ambitious! Good luck!

 

[TheJuan-n-Only]

If you had a RIR rooster over a barred rock hen, you'd have black sex links and could tell their genders on the day of hatch. With a Barred rooster, you will have chicks that grow to be barred. Their color won't necessarily be black and white barred, but feather barring is a dominant gene.

Awesome, that's what I was hoping for!! Love them barring hens...

 

[TheJuan-n-Only]

12 eggs! Wow you are ambitious! Good luck!

I know, and the soon to be mama is not that big to start with! lol 12 sounded like a good number, lol..I put the RIR eggs towards the middle hope I get at least 1 hen there...the rest will be gravy (literally some will end up with gravy on them hehehe

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[Florida_country_boy]

good luck Juan! It is very fun hatching your first chicks. Post some pics when they hatch!