Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[SusanRenee]

ALmost ALL of those chicks have vulture hocks!

Do vulture hocks breed down? If a hen and roo have them will all of the chicks have them?

 

[madamwlf]

Do vulture hocks breed down? If a hen and roo have them will all of the chicks have them?

I do believe so. It is something you want to cull out of brahmas, not continue to breed.

 

[caj1985]

Since I am just starting with calico cochin bantams would someone give me the definition of vulture hocks because I want to make sure my breeders on my cochins (which are very heavily feathered) do not have this. Or instead of a definition a reference as to where to find it would work. TIA

 

[madamwlf]

Since I am just starting with calico cochin bantams would someone give me the definition of vulture hocks because I want to make sure my breeders on my cochins (which are very heavily feathered) do not have this. Or instead of a definition a reference as to where to find it would work. TIA

Look at the link I posted and check out the last picture. Notice the feathers on the legs that look like extra wings? Those are vulture hocks. The area is suppose to contain soft fluffy feathers sort of like their back side, not the hard feathers that make up their wings.

 

[madamwlf]

I am in turkey heaven. Just unpacked 15 beautiful Midget White Turkey eggs from flocksalot!!!

 

[caj1985]

Look at the link I posted and check out the last picture. Notice the feathers on the legs that look like extra wings? Those are vulture hocks. The area is suppose to contain soft fluffy feathers sort of like their back side, not the hard feathers that make up their wings.

No basically it should be like silky fluff instead of having shafts and actual feathers attached?

 

[mzstre]

I have to say my last swap I added my Tolbunts as a claim for much later because the swap is very slow and people love Tolbunts. After I offered them I wanted to go back to edit because I felt very uneasy about doing so- considering I have lost chickens to hawks, fox, and raccoons you just never know what will happen by then...

Besides, Murphy's law says if I owe you Tolbunt eggs something will surely happen to my Tolbunts

From now on I will only offer what is laying and that is for my own piece of mind

x2. I'll only offer what I have laying because you just never know what will happen. We've never had any problems with predators other than hawks, but I live next to the Mississippi River and the water is on the rise and must be displacing animals. Something took one of my Cayugas out of a welded wire and hardware cloth pen last week. First, all my pens are inside a 6 ft wooden fence that is very solidly built. Every pen is covered on all sides and the top. Whatever took my little drake pulled up 8 inch stakes and bent the wire up like it wasn't even there.

My Partridge Bart quad is still in a quarantine pen. I have them near my outside dog's house because I figured that nothing would bother them there. The silly birds, instead of sleeping inside their house, roost on TOP of it. Maybe not anymore though. Something (must have been a coon) climbed up and yanked out all the cockerel's tail feathers last night through 1/2 inch welded fencing! Thankfully my dog woke me up and I let them loose after it and the birds are all okay. I would have been in trouble if I had offered future eggs and lost the cockerel.

 

[madamwlf]

No basically it should be like silky fluff instead of having shafts and actual feathers attached?

yes, exactly what it's suppose to be. No hard feathers at all. Cull hard since there are some out there who have no issue breeding vulture hocks even though it's a DQ for showing.

 

[madamwlf]

x2. I'll only offer what I have laying because you just never know what will happen. We've never had any problems with predators other than hawks, but I live next to the Mississippi River and the water is on the rise and must be displacing animals. Something took one of my Cayugas out of a welded wire and hardware cloth pen last week. First, all my pens are inside a 6 ft wooden fence that is very solidly built. Every pen is covered on all sides and the top. Whatever took my little drake pulled up 8 inch stakes and bent the wire up like it wasn't even there.

My Partridge Bart quad is still in a quarantine pen. I have them near my outside dog's house because I figured that nothing would bother them there. The silly birds, instead of sleeping inside their house, roost on TOP of it. Maybe not anymore though. Something (must have been a coon) climbed up and yanked out all the cockerel's tail feathers last night through 1/2 inch welded fencing! Thankfully my dog woke me up and I let them loose after it and the birds are all okay. I would have been in trouble if I had offered future eggs and lost the cockerel.

I could have sent another.

I have a few running around here. If you want a back up just pay for shipping and I can send you one.

 

[mzstre]

e  I am in turkey heaven.  Just unpacked 15 beautiful Midget White Turkey eggs from flocksalot!!!  

You're going to love the poults!