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[DMRippy]

Yay! Thank you for all that information! That's exactly what I wanted to know. I think I am going to get work my bantams towards silver laced blues and do barred LF Cochins. What would a barred roo over black hen breed? its funny because with my birchen all the roos where hatching birchen i assume its the same sex link reasoning? though, they are sex link at hatch, since the birchen takes time to feather out. Could I work towards blue barred? Would that kind of work the same way as silver laced, with working for several generations to get the color pattern and coloring!

A barred roo (2 copies of the barring gene) x solid hens will give you 100% barred chicks BUT the roos from that cross would not be barred correctly since roos should have 2 copies of the barring gene. I don't use roos from that kind of cross unless I need that kind of roo.

I don't really know much about birchen other than my marans. It can express the first generation in my Olive eggers and it work in both roos and pullets. I am working on blue barred rocks..... so yeah you can. Some crosses are harder to get, like a penciled look or lacing. My blue barred rocks are taking several generations to get the barring correct on the pullets. roos seem to bar nice but the pullet are not... I don't know if that has to do with the blue doing something to the barring. I have crossed reg BR to EE and those pullets look correctly barred the first generation.

 

[DMRippy]

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Myth.... sorry.

 

[WVstruttin]

Myth.... sorry.

Not myth. corn is full of carbs but very little protein

 

[animalsRawesome]

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Myth.... sorry.
Wait. Which are you saying is a myth? I'm confused...

 

[SleepyOwl]

Hmmmm, isn't corn the first ingredient in most chicken feed?

 

[DMRippy]

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That is true, the fact that it keeps them warm is a myth. My birds are not cold in the winter and they don't get corn.

WELL other than what is in their feed.... and I am sure that is PLENTY.

 

[DMRippy]

Hmmmm, isn't corn the first ingredient in most chicken feed?

Another reason they don't NEED MORE.

 

[SleepyOwl]

Right, but you said that it is like candy, ect, but yet that is the bulk of what they are getting if that is all that you feed them.

I am sure this can be debated all day and not get us anywhere, so I will stop now.

 

[WVstruttin]

Right, but you said that it is like candy, ect, but yet that is the bulk of what they are getting if that is all that you feed them.

I am sure this can be debated all day and not get us anywhere, so I will stop now.

nothing to debate really, proven fact that carbs produce fat and fat helps keep animals warm

 

[chiqita]

Right, but you said that it is like candy, etc, but yet that is the bulk of what they are getting if that is all that you feed them.

I am sure this can be debated all day and not get us anywhere, so I will stop now.

Corn is more like bread. It give you fiber and carbs, but that is mostly filler. And, like bread, if you eat too much of it you get fat. IIRC chickens can digest corn, but it doesn't have enough other stuff in it to be a good diet supplement. The tricky part in birds is getting them to get enough protein. In the wild they have access to bugs that have micros and protein. they get few in captivity and supplementing that with grain can be tricky.

I'm not a diet expert, however, so take what I say with a grain of salt ( assuming you can eat salt!)