Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[debs_flock]

Here are one of the paint showgirls that hatched yesterday, of course she moved in all the pictures of her spots

I'll try for a better photo shoot tomorrow with the whole group. I've had 7 (I think) SG's hatch out so far in the last few days.

Deb

 

[babymakes6]

Redbrush, I am sorry about your daughter. With 5 children, I cannot imagine losing any one of them. So glad you got some new babies on your daughter's "new birthday."

 

[cluckitall]

Oh, she's beautiful! So... wait. Is that what showgirls are? Naked-neck silkies? I always wondered!

 

[debs_flock]

Oh, she's beautiful! So... wait. Is that what showgirls are? Naked-neck silkies? I always wondered!

Yup!

This was Mom when she was a youngster.

Deb

 

[debs_flock]

Don't they look like a Vegas showgirl with a big headpiece and fluffy costume?

Deb

 

[cluckitall]

Oh my gosh, that is just delightful! My friend Melanie kept telling me "You have to get some showgirls!" because she's always loved them. Now I see why

 

[Dahlisgrams]

Don't they look like a Vegas showgirl with a big headpiece and fluffy costume?

Deb

Yes!

You guys have been chatty!

Still have CCL eggs on the road.. will be 5 days in transit if they arrive on Monday. I'm so bummed. Darned postal service..

 

[birdnbeast]

yes!

You guys have been chatty!

Still have CCL eggs on the road.. will be 5 days in transit if they arrive on Monday. I'm so bummed. Darned postal service..

Best shipped hatch rate I ever had was lost for five "extra" days from one coast to the other. And, using the LG plain no turner, etc. 11 out 13 dUccle I swear it must have been the 'resting' time .....

 

[kraftyladies]

If one wanted to start a silver laced project, where would you begin? Yes, I'm very challenged when it comes to genetics and colors. I bought a book, made no sense to me so i swapped it!!!

 

[Overoberyl]

If one wanted to start a silver laced project, where would you begin? Yes, I'm very challenged when it comes to genetics and colors. I bought a book, made no sense to me so i swapped it!!!

I haven't read the book or anything but in general terms I think you just pick a breed that has the trait you're looking for and do a first generation cross. Then from there you breed the crosses together and keep the offspring that have the traits you want. Depending on the mode of inheritance you then breed back to your original breed over multiple generations to get back to the original breed type, while only keeping those offspring that have inherited the desired trait and culling those that didn't or have obvious traits from the crossed breed. I would think for silver laced orps you would probably use silver laced Wyandottes, at least then you don't have things like muffs/beards/crests/feathered legs that you have to breed back out of your project birds.