Incubating Golden and Silver Sebrights

[CSpeyrer]

I have heard that if you cross a silver roo with a gold hen, then their off spring will be sex linked. Such as the silver will all be girls and the gold will be all makes. Has anyone ever done this? does is mess with the colors? I am very successful with my Milli Fleur bantams when it comes to hatching, but very very bad when it comes to my sebrights.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I have heard that if you cross a silver roo with a gold hen, then their off spring will be sex linked. Such as the silver will all be girls and the gold will be all makes. Has anyone ever done this? does is mess with the colors? I am very successful with my Milli Fleur bantams when it comes to hatching, but very very bad when it comes to my sebrights. 

Yes, that is correct.

You mean *Mille Fleur d'Uccles. I had a few of those (and porcelain and golden neck) but ended up getting rid of them. They were basically candy to the foxes. I prefer my Mille Fleur Old English Game bantams

 

[james walker]

Just finished a sebright hatched. 8 for 8. First 17 day in a dry.incubator. humidity stayed around 35%. Lockdown I boosted humidity to 65 to ,70.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Just finished a sebright hatched. 8 for 8. First 17 day in a dry.incubator. humidity stayed around 35%. Lockdown I boosted humidity to 65 to ,70.

Were they shipped eggs or your own?

 

[james walker]

The were my own.

 

[S_Taylor]

The biggest causes of DIS after lockdown is temps and humidity. Temps, if low because they will still be alive and moving but developmentally behind and end up quitting before they finish and are ready to hatch. Humidity because if the humidity has been too high the first 17 days and the egg hasn't lost enough moisture the air cell will not grow and the chick will drown at hatch time in the excess fluid left in the egg. I would tend to think maybe the latter if you are not monitoring the humidity and the one that hatched hatched on time. I usually incubate at 30%, (and run a dry bator first 17 days) at least for my standard eggs. Now the silkie eggs I recieved I had to hatch at 40-45% because they lost moisture faster and the air cell grew rather quickly. Of course they were much smaller than my standards too.

I would highly suggest monitoring your humidity by both hygrometer and checking air cells to know that your eggs areloosing enough moisture. I use this method: http://letsraisechickens.weebly.com...anuals-understanding-and-controlling-humidity

And if you can handle them, I would do eggtopsies and try to pinpoint the problem as well. If you have eggs with significant excess fluid in them, very wet or very sticky chicks, overly large chicks, that points to too high humidity. Multiple shrink wrapped chicks, where the membrane is dry and literally pulling the chick down against the egg, dry sticky chicks, is a sign of too low humidity. not fully developed chicks is a sign of temps being low and delayed development.

Awesome info! Hope the two that my girl laid make it.