Help With Broody

[Auntiejessi3]

She's broody again! That chicken is determined to hatch eggs. She's in another cardboard box now and I will move her to the little coop today before the chickens roost.
I wonder what type of chicken she is...

Looks like an easter egger

 

[Let There Be Light]

Looks like an easter egger

I hoped she was when we got her (and her sister)! They ended up being D'Anvers, but still happy for them nontheless! (Especially since none of the other hens care to be broody.)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-breed-are-these-sweet-bantams.1494222/#post-24931165

 

[Let There Be Light]

 

[Let There Be Light]

We have a baby!!!
I know the dad is Toots, and I think the mom is Lucky who looked exactly like the baby but lighter when she was a chick.

 

[Let There Be Light]

Hey, just a question. I was able to wing sex both the dad and the mom, will the baby also be wing sexable? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, lol.)

 

[NatJ]

Hey, just a question. I was able to wing sex both the dad and the mom, will the baby also be wing sexable? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, lol.)

Short answer: probably not.

Long answer:

Wing sexing usually means to tell fast feathering chicks from slow feathering chicks.
In many breeds, all chicks are fast feathering.
In some breeds, all chicks are slow feathering.
In some breeds, chicks are a random mix of fast and slow feathering that has nothing to do with gender.

If you cross a fast feathering male with a slow feathering female, you will get sons that feather slowly (like their mother) and daughters that feather quickly (like their father.) Hatcheries sometimes do it on purpose with certain strains of chickens, so they can sex the chicks by their at hatch instead of doing vent sexing.

But if you take chickens that were feather sexable as chicks (slow male, fast female) and breed them, you get a random mix of males & females of each feathering type.

It's because the feathering genes are on the Z sex chromosome.
A male has ZZ, one Z from his father and one from his mother. He passes a Z chromosome to each of his chicks.

A female has ZW. So a hen gets her W chromosome from her mother, with no affect on her feathering speed. She gets her Z chromosome from her father, and passes it to her sons.

All of the sexlink hybrids work the same basic way. The father must have the recessive gene (fast feathering, gold feather color, not-barred feathers) and the mother must have the dominant gene (slow feathering, silver feather color, barred feathers.) Because the mother's trait only goes to her sons and not her daughters, the sons will show that dominant trait. The daughters show the recessive trait from their father, and the sons carry that too but do not show it. This means those chicks do not have the right genetic makeup to produce sexlink chicks of their own.

 

[Let There Be Light]

Short answer: probably not.

Long answer:

Wing sexing usually means to tell fast feathering chicks from slow feathering chicks.
In many breeds, all chicks are fast feathering.
In some breeds, all chicks are slow feathering.
In some breeds, chicks are a random mix of fast and slow feathering that has nothing to do with gender.

If you cross a fast feathering male with a slow feathering female, you will get sons that feather slowly (like their mother) and daughters that feather quickly (like their father.) Hatcheries sometimes do it on purpose with certain strains of chickens, so they can sex the chicks by their at hatch instead of doing vent sexing.

But if you take chickens that were feather sexable as chicks (slow male, fast female) and breed them, you get a random mix of males & females of each feathering type.

It's because the feathering genes are on the Z sex chromosome.
A male has ZZ, one Z from his father and one from his mother. He passes a Z chromosome to each of his chicks.

A female has ZW. So a hen gets her W chromosome from her mother, with no affect on her feathering speed. She gets her Z chromosome from her father, and passes it to her sons.

All of the sexlink hybrids work the same basic way. The father must have the recessive gene (fast feathering, gold feather color, not-barred feathers) and the mother must have the dominant gene (slow feathering, silver feather color, barred feathers.) Because the mother's trait only goes to her sons and not her daughters, the sons will show that dominant trait. The daughters show the recessive trait from their father, and the sons carry that too but do not show it. This means those chicks do not have the right genetic makeup to produce sexlink chicks of their own.

That makes sense, thanks!

 

[Let There Be Light]

Picture updates! The lighting is pretty bad in the little coop so it's very difficult to get good photos, but here are a few anyway!

We got two guineas for her today and one is sleeping under her already!

You can kind of see it's head in the following picture.

 

[Let There Be Light]

More updates...
Buhk Buhk doesn't like it when the keets freak out and run all over the place but she lets them sleep on her. It's so cute when I locked the little coop up for the night both of the guineas were passed out on top of her.
I give my birds a banana every evening and I watched Buhk Buhk teach the chick how to eat banana. She's also already taught the chick how to wipe it's beak. All my other chicks (that weren't raised by a broody) never wiped their beak's as three day olds. This wee chick can already do it so rapidly it's like s/he's a professional! XD Absolutely adorable!

 

[Little Baby Bean]

Picture updates! The lighting is pretty bad in the little coop so it's very difficult to get good photos, but here are a few anyway!
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We got two guineas for her today and one is sleeping under her already!

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You can kind of see it's head in the following picture.

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So cute!Also for breed, she looks like some type of D'anver. Maybe a quail D'anver or something.