Idaho?

[Daloorashens]

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

hey Mesha! What is happening in your neck of the woods? How is the hatching?

 

[thebirdguy]

hey Mesha! What is happening in your neck of the woods? How is the hatching?

our neck of the woods is sunny but chilly today....

How are your eggs cooking Lisa? I highly doubt you will be quitting anytime soon, nor will you leave chickenstock without eggs and chicks (and poults!!) Better bring a bunch to sell so you can play the chicken substitionary math game!!

 

[BackYardChknLvr]

so the chicken thing that is gona be goin on may 4th up there in idahoFalls is anybody here from boise gona look at going??? cause if so wanting to see if some want to do some car pooling if i'm able to get work off for it.. cause i want to go to my first chicken show and possibly show my babies and learn a few more things if so get ahold of me let me know. this will be a Bday gift to my self since May 4th is my Bday and i want to spend it with feathery friends and fellow chicken lover :3

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Ya ya Oh how I know that game....eggs are doing good so far, going to candle tomorrow, but the bator is holding steady with the sunny/overcast days and the house temps going all over the place, so far so good! No poults at chickenstock...and if there are surprise mini turkey eggs in this batch I know who is next on my list to "rooster" in the night....

There was one egg with an A on it...a brown one, you know what that is? I also was going to ask what you put with the Dellies to make the sex links. I am excited...cross fingers for more gold than silver!

 

[thebirdguy]

Ya ya Oh how I know that game....eggs are doing good so far, going to candle tomorrow, but the bator is holding steady with the sunny/overcast days and the house temps going all over the place, so far so good! No poults at chickenstock...and if there are surprise mini turkey eggs in this batch I know who is next on my list to "rooster" in the night....

There was one egg with an A on it...a brown one, you know what that is? I also was going to ask what you put with the Dellies to make the sex links. I am excited...cross fingers for more gold than silver!

the one with an A on it is from an EE and my splash BW amer roo

I have RIR over the Delawares to make the sexlinks.. You want all red babies no white ones...

Here's the info from another thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information

Red Sex Linked Crosses

If the sex-linked trait is dominant in the mother and recessive in the father (the father carries two recessive alleles) then the sons will express the dominant trait inherited from the mother, while the daughters will express the recessive trait inherited from the father. This is the key to sex linked crosses; the male offspring can be separated from the female offspring when they hatch from the egg.


An example of this is the inheritance of the silver and gold alleles (genes) that are used in a red sex linked cross. In this case, the father has two recessive gold alleles (s+/s+) and the mother has one dominant silver allele (S). An example of a gold bird is a rhode island red and an example of a silver bird is a delaware.

A gold male Silver female




When the cross is made, the male offspring will inherit a gold allele (s+) from the father and a silver allele (S) from the mother. The males will inherit two different alleles, one silver and one gold; silver is dominant therefore the male chicks will have white down due to the dominant silver gene.



The mother can only give her silver allele to her sons; the mother does not determine the down color of the daughters. Only the father determines the down color of the daughters. The father will give one gold allele to each daughter causing the down of the daughters to be reddish in color.

The diagram below illustrates how offspring inherit alleles.

The down color of red sex linked chicks can vary depending on the breed of bird used to make the red sex linked cross. Different breeds of chickens carry different kinds of genes and it is the genes that cause the different colors in the chick down.

The chick on the right is the perfect example of the red down color and the chick on the left is the perfect example of silver or white down color. As can be seen, the female (red) is easily distinguished from the male (silver or white).

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[La Casa de Pollo]

Awesome Thanks!

 

[Daloorashens]

yes it was chilly today, kind of breezy... more chicks hatching today, but a smaller hatch, so DH isn't so stressed over it, lol... next eggs in lockdown on Thursday, sheesh!!

 

[IcyOldHen]

I have 40 quail eggs going on lock down today! I set 54 but looks like 14 failed to develop.

It was really hard to get them before they got too chilled in the cold! They're so tiny they chill fast.

Hoping for a better hatch rate on the next batch... now that spring may actually be on the horizon!

 

[pawtraitart]

I have 40 quail eggs going on lock down today! I set 54 but looks like 14 failed to develop.

It was really hard to get them before they got too chilled in the cold! They're so tiny they chill fast.

Hoping for a better hatch rate on the next batch... now that spring may actually be on the horizon!

I have snowflake bobwhite quail incubating. Their eggs are tiny! I thought my jumbo brown coturnix quail eggs were small until these. So cute.