INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[lozerface79]

I dont know sweets without seeing candles air cell lines etc.     positions were good?  

you skeered me with that too...    what do you suggest, the bleach alone I guess?

Sally i have a question, do mind answering or are you too busy? Because i can wait, it aint urgent

 

[Chaos18]

I dont know sweets without seeing candles air cell lines etc.     positions were good?  

you skeered me with that too...    what do you suggest, the bleach alone I guess?

Sally what would be the point of an antibiotic dip if the eggs were previously washed off with your bleach solution?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

What breed are you hatching?

Cream Legbars

 

[shahtir101]

I dont know sweets without seeing candles air cell lines etc.     positions were good?  

you skeered me with that too...    what do you suggest, the bleach alone I guess?

Ya I didn't take pics (whoops) the position seemed good. I think it just was a stroke of bad luck.

 

[lozerface79]

Cream Legbars

Those are pretty birds.
Are cream legbars sex link?

 

[lazy gardener]

No, they are auto-sexing. The difference being: Sex link occurs when you breed specific birds together. For example, a dark roo over a barred hen produces black sex link chicks. They will not breed true in the next generation. Auto sexing breeds true in each generation, as long as you don't introduce an other breed. A good strain of barred or cuckoo patterned birds will be auto sexing. There are some other breeds that are auto sexing, some of them require a practiced eye.

 

[lozerface79]

No, they are auto-sexing.  The difference being:  Sex link occurs when you breed specific birds together.  For example, a dark roo over a barred hen produces black sex link chicks.  They will not breed true in the next generation.  Auto sexing breeds true in each generation, as long as you don't introduce an other breed.  A good strain of barred or cuckoo patterned birds will be auto sexing.  There are some other breeds that are auto sexing, some of them require a practiced eye.  

Interesting. Im learning more and more every day
So is your favorite breed cream legbars?

 

[daxigait]

Too badc

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Yes I am, yeah have 5  hens but no roo. :/
[/quote you are not here I know someone who has one he is going to get rid of(too many)
@Sally Sunshine well the first time 48 of 52. The second hatch we got eggs elsewhere and she tossed a bunch of infertile eggs, this time there were 66 eggs, and she tossed 18 on day 9 when she candled. I don't like that number, but as sick as my roos were up until the week before I collected and some were a week old who knows

 

[casportpony]

Quote: This does interest me... Can both these drugs be heated, cooled and heated again?

-Kathy

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Spent a little more time this evening on the new pen. Got the three doors so they will latch shut. Just need to cut some pop doors and install ramps up to the coop(s). I want to get through soon, because as soon as the nights get above freezing (upper 30's and low 40's), the chicks are moving out of the basement. I would move them sooner, but the basement remains a steady 58F-60F and I don't want to risk losing them to hypothermia.

I know I've shown them before, but here are the coop doors today:



I didn't realize just how big the 9 week old BR's were getting until I (attempted to) measured them. I also noticed they can stand flat-footed and peck the wire at the top of the brooder... which is 24" from the floor. Here is a pic of them standing normally behind the end of an 18" zip tie (camera level with top end):