Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[tdhenson86]

Ok I am here getting ready to bring some chicks over to a lady who wants them. I am selling all my cochin chicks because they have vulture hocks

she is aware of that and doesn't care. As I was looking over the chicks, I found this one... Unsure if they are vulture hocks or not... Opinions? One is a rooster with what I think is obvious hocks... But I am unsure of the hen in the 2st picture.

I would say those are vulture hocks... At least, it looks like it to me. Vulture hocks are hard feathers that protrude out of the hock of the bird (upper leg) making it look like their knees extend.

 

[CluckyCharms]

How far down do chicks usually bury themselves in sand when they dustbathe?? O_O Right now we have an easter egger that has buried her entire belly in the sand...all that is visible is her backside, tail and of course her face...and part of her neck. She seems quite content half-buried.

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Vulture hocks are a fault on Cochins. Instead of the leg being full and feathered all the way down with fluffy feathers that are softer like the under feathers, they are stiff and gathered around the leg joint. Vulture hock feathers are stiff like wing feathers.

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: Oh wow, do I have the roo for you.

I bought some chicks from a good exhibition line. There was one chick in the box that I couldn't figure out what the heck it was, but clues didn't add up, wrong color/comb type/feathering based on what the guy had. Until I wrote to him. It's a SL Wyandotte from his exhibition lines, but it has a single comb. He said they pop up now and then in his lines and of course are just culled.

This bird is so handsome, I hadn't been able to bring myself to put him in the freezer. I was going to CL him for $20. This picture was when he was young, he is now huge and filled out.

I'll try to take a new picture of him today.

Deb

 

[tdhenson86]

Oh wow, do I have the roo for you.

I bought some chicks from a good exhibition line. There was one chick in the box that I couldn't figure out what the heck it was, but clues didn't add up, wrong color/comb type/feathering based on what the guy had. Until I wrote to him. It's a SL Wyandotte from his exhibition lines, but it has a single comb. He said they pop up now and then in his lines and of course are just culled.

This bird is so handsome, I hadn't been able to bring myself to put him in the freezer. I was going to CL him for $20. This picture was when he was young, he is now huge and filled out.

I'll try to take a new picture of him today.

Deb

Beautiful!!! That would be the perfect roo to start with too! That way you don't have to worry about the comb type in addition to coloration...

 

[DMRippy]

Quote:
Orps have white skin so you will have to contend with yellow legs if you do that..... but I don't know of another breed with SL that would work better. All the chicks from that firs cross will be carriers, Breed them back to the Orps and THEN test those chicks to see who is carrying the yellow leg genes by mating them with a yellow leg bird.... cull the carriers. That is a huge project, to cull yellow legs and keep the lacing. ( yellow legs are recessive and need 2 copies to express. )

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: The best Blue should be Silver based.....

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: They will, trust me. When it get really cold here, I will be removing the nipple waterers and be putting milk jugs in over night. It is just too hard to thaw the nipples, they will freeze and fall out of the bucket with the pressure of the ice.... just too much work when it gets really cold....

 

[Papa Brooder]

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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!!!

Get my a list of the color Orps you have and I'll see if I can come up with a "recipe"[/q

Hey there! I have BBS, Gl, Lav, jubilee, LC, and buff orps. Will have access to partridge orps in spring. Any recipes for me? I do also have a sl Wyandotte pair.

 

[mrheinz77]

Donna,
I was thinking Blue also. Birchen Orps would work too. The first generation GLO x Brr would not show Silver laced but the second generation would start to show some. The other color I thought about was Columbian but that is just as rare as the SLO. I do know Corancher is working on Birchen Orps. I have a cockerel hatched from her eggs but he is Gold Birchen. I have more of her Birchen eggs in the incubator nor.

Either way, creating the lacing is a hard project with tons of culls.

Personally, if I were going to cross to another breed, it would be Sussex (white slin, single comb)

Just my humble opinion.