Incubators Anonymous

[Arielle]

haa haa yep My Hubby is the worst / best enabler ever!!! I haven't had my bator off for more than a few days since I made it this spring!! EE eggs in now and think I will set another batch when these are done to be sure I get enough hens. I found my Ball python loves to eat chicks so I can get rid of the roo babies and weak ones if I can get good at feather sexing anyways. I have a hard time giving them to him but I would rather them have a reason for dieing than just culling them. And its way cheaper than buying him food.

THe circle of life. You can work toward having sexlinks . . . .barred hens OR silver hens required to start with AND a correctly colored rooster.

 

[Nsampsel]

THe circle of life. You can work toward having sexlinks . . . .barred hens OR silver hens required to start with AND a correctly colored rooster.

SLW roo over BLRW hen also make sex-links. The roos are the darker chicks.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Is that the right combo? I was thinking that was a sex link mix, I just could not remember the right mix. I should have kept those not so great BLRW pullets.

I kept 1 for a project. She has a straight comb. I am sure I will hatch some.... even Foley has culls

 

[DMRippy]

I hope I get time today to candle eggs. We are having to go to a funeral so I have lost of prep to get the birds ready to fend for themselves for 2 day. I am not going to trust anyone to watch them this time. Just going to take my chances. Last time it was for 5 days and didn't go to well with help. I don't think there will be any issues with leaving the eggs in the boxes. I am going to put out plenty of water and feed should be ok.

 

[ki4got]

Quote: OOH! OOH! OOH!

that could give you some interesting possibilities. like silver laced and ... blue laced silver(?) hens, and gold laced and blue laced gold cocks (which could be bred back to slw or blrw, for pure colored hens and pure/gold roos) theoretically at least.

thanks for the idea. as if i don't have ENOUGH ideas... i'm just lacking some of the foundation breeding stock to play with these ideas.
and breeding pens. need more breeding pens. hm...

edit: OH YEAH!!! today's lockdown for donna's marans and the blrw i got.

the blrw might need more than that... of 30 eggs i think i've got 7 to go into lockdown. and 4-5 are a customer's, if they hatch. i was hoping for a couple for me too.

 

[Nsampsel]

OOH! OOH! OOH!

that could give you some interesting possibilities. like silver laced and ... blue laced silver(?) hens, and gold laced and blue laced gold cocks (which could be bred back to slw or blrw, for pure colored hens and pure/gold roos) theoretically at least.

thanks for the idea. as if i don't have ENOUGH ideas... i'm just lacking some of the foundation breeding stock to play with these ideas.
and breeding pens. need more breeding pens. hm...

edit: OH YEAH!!! today's lockdown for donna's marans and the blrw i got.

the blrw might need more than that... of 30 eggs i think i've got 7 to go into lockdown. and 4-5 are a customer's, if they hatch. i was hoping for a couple for me too.

Yup...SLW roo over BLRW hen will give you:
25% Pullets, blue patterned redshouldered/cream laced
25% Pullets, black patterned redshouldered/cream laced
25% Cockerels, blue patterned yellow/golden laced
25% Cockerels, black patterned yellow/golden laced

So your cockrels will be the darker chicks at hatch with 2 lacing possibilities for each sex.

AND the opposite of BLRW roo over SLW hen also gives you sex-links, but the pullets are the darker chicks with 2 lacing possibilities for each again.

25% Pullets, blue patterned red laced
25% Pullets, black patterned red laced
25% Cockerels, blue patterned yellow/golden laced
25% Cockerels, black patterned yellow/golden laced

 

[ki4got]

Quote: is the red shoulder/cream lace because of the mahogany in the blrw?

 

[Nsampsel]

is the red shoulder/cream lace because of the mahogany in the blrw?

Ummmmm...maybe

I cheated & used the chicken calculator

 

[ki4got]

Quote:
lol ok. well, there's been discussion on some genetics forums about red leakage like that being due to mahogany or autosomal red (i think it's one and same personally)...

guess i'm an oddball, in that i LOVE playing with genetics... then again, i also studied it in college, but more from a production standpoint (dairy cattle primarily), not poultry colors. LOL but it's the color genetics that fascinate me so much. i think i've actually got the 'flavors' figured out in the colored dorking mixture, just waiting on hens to lay so i can start hatching my "guinea pigs" to prove it. then comes the fun part. after tearing apart the mutations involved, then i'm going to rearrange them into what *I* want my colored dorkings to look like. which is somewhat of a cross between what's currently thought of as colored, and what's in the SOP as colored. (they are 2 separate things IMO).

but i digress...

and to bring it back on topic, i've got 27 of donna's (mostly marans) eggs in lockdown (out of 39 but i still can't see into the marans so they all went in) and 8 blrw (kind of disappointing, out of 30 eggs).

now it's time for

, prayers (to any and all deities, major or minor, who may or may not exist), voodoo rituals, or whatever floats your boat.

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

lol ok. well, there's been discussion on some genetics forums about red leakage like that being due to mahogany or autosomal red (i think it's one and same personally)...

guess i'm an oddball, in that i LOVE playing with genetics... then again, i also studied it in college, but more from a production standpoint (dairy cattle primarily), not poultry colors. LOL but it's the color genetics that fascinate me so much. i think i've actually got the 'flavors' figured out in the colored dorking mixture, just waiting on hens to lay so i can start hatching my "guinea pigs" to prove it. then comes the fun part. after tearing apart the mutations involved, then i'm going to rearrange them into what *I* want my colored dorkings to look like. which is somewhat of a cross between what's currently thought of as colored, and what's in the SOP as colored. (they are 2 separate things IMO).

but i digress...

and to bring it back on topic, i've got 27 of donna's (mostly marans) eggs in lockdown (out of 39 but i still can't see into the marans so they all went in) and 8 blrw (kind of disappointing, out of 30 eggs).

now it's time for

, prayers (to any and all deities, major or minor, who may or may not exist), voodoo rituals, or whatever floats your boat.

k-
lighting candles, saying prayers and meditating for you on a successful hatch! (Spiritual diversity begins at home!)
My broody is on Day 19, so believe me, I chat regularly with ALL of Them!