Idaho?

[Daloorashens]

Good luck on your hatch!! I would love to have some quail, if only I had another acre or 2 and no zoning restrictions, dagnabit!!

 

[SusanRenee]

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Time to move!!

 

[thebirdguy]

Good luck on your hatch!! I would love to have some quail, if only I had another acre or 2 and no zoning restrictions, dagnabit!!

Please come buy the house next to the farm so I have a neighbor with a brain!!!

 

[Mo5C]

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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How much are you going to charge for your Blue Wheaten chicks at Chicken Stock?

 

[thebirdguy]

How much are you going to charge for your Blue Wheaten chicks at Chicken Stock?

I'll have some that will be straight run and about 5-7 days old that will be $5 or $6 each.... I'll may have some 5-6 week old started pullets for $20..

 

[Daloorashens]

Please come buy the house next to the farm so I have a neighbor with a brain!!!

You've seen my mind??? I thought I lost it.........

Is it for sale?? in my wildest dreams!!

 

[thebirdguy]

You've seen my mind??? I thought I lost it.........

Is it for sale?? in my wildest dreams!!

I wish it was for sale!! These are the idiots that called the sheriff about our LGD being too loud and complained about the ducks and pigs making too much noise...

 

[Mo5C]

I wish it was for sale!! These are the idiots that called the sheriff about our LGD being too loud and complained about the ducks and pigs making too much noise...

Are they still giving you trouble?

 

[Mo5C]

Any ideas on how to sex 2 week old Cochin chicks? My great-nephew picked chickens for his and my growing project and I wanted to see if I could tell which were the boys and which were the girls. He got straight run chicks from the feedstore and most all of them have feathered feet/legs most are Cochin's but he got a couple Light Brahma and 2 or three others that I haven't figured out what they are yet. I researched it a little, and came across feather sexing and vent sexing but was wondering if there were any other ways to do it.

 

[joanie_maine]

Any ideas on how to sex 2 week old Cochin chicks? My great-nephew picked chickens for his and my growing project and I wanted to see if I could tell which were the boys and which were the girls. He got straight run chicks from the feedstore and most all of them have feathered feet/legs most are Cochin's but he got a couple Light Brahma and 2 or three others that I haven't figured out what they are yet. I researched it a little, and came across feather sexing and vent sexing but was wondering if there were any other ways to do it.