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Dont ask me about genetics lolOkay so here's my questions. What's up? What did I miss? Did runt lose more birds? Did he get corid?
Is that purple duck real or dyed? Where can I get one?
We picked up 64 hatching eggs from a new friend on Saturday and set them last night. So worth the hour drive there and back. We had a blast! I saw my first seramas(although I think they were a bit bigger that seramas normally are) @ Sally aren't the bigger ones C class?
I saw my first frizzles much cooler than I thought and cuter than I thought but I'm still not sure I would want them. I saw my first Sebastopol geese also cool but I didn't get too close. And they hand English shepherds! Awesome dogs! I told her she could move her whole operation to our house lol.
So we came home with 64 eggs like I mentioned and two young pullets. A buff Brahma and and blue silkie mix both sweet as sugar. I'm in love! Sally your Brahmas are on my want list now too. The more Brahmas we meet/get the more I like them. We now have two lights and a buff.
The eggs we got include silkie eggs for fun and to try to replace our lossed birds(mutters stupid fox and expletives under breath) from her mixed silkie flock which has been producing blues buffs partridge splash grey a few white black and porcelain. Super exited about these. I swear she also had a couple young chocolate silkie pullets which were beautiful and I would love one of those but I think she said they weren't laying yet.
There is also the possibility of some porcelain d'uccle eggs in the cartons with the silkie eggs as she also had a few of them. Although separate from the silkies. Her porcelain d'uccle roo seems to be some kind of silkie mix while her hens are pure. They're darling and the little roo was so comical with his silkie feathers. Despite his silkie feathering he seemed to be very much more d'uccle than silkie.
We also got lavender and black split American Orpington eggs. We love our orps and I'm super excited about them. Of every picture I've seen from people raising lavenders I think her stock had the least lemon(right?) leakage but one hen had pretty bad toes. We will keep an eye out for that of course.
Now for our resident genetics experts please....
The last eggs we got were silver pencilled rocks and mixed silver pencilled rock rooster over partridge hens. What will these chicks look like? If her and my knowledge of genetics is right and I used the chicken calculator correctly then the cockeral chicks from the mix should be sex linked and the pullets should be homozygous for the silver?
Silver pencilled rocks are something I've admired for quite a while so I can't wait to see them!!!!
Can you all tell I'm excited?
And you are so addicted I love it!!! you have pics of the newbies?
from Jerry, you have to weigh your birds we basically have only As and Bs. As are trouble with fertilization and seizures
In Table Top Competition, Traditional Serama are entered in Weight Classes
Cocks
-Class A, up to 13 ounces
-Class B, up to 16 ounces
-Class C, up to 19 ounces
Hens
-Class A, up to 12 ounces
-Class B, up to 15 ounces
-Class C, up to 17 ounces
Below is a group photo of A,B,C Class Champion Cocks at the recent CC
