Incubators Anonymous

[DMRippy]

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My roo guy does not butcher ANYTHING!

He sells them after he grows them out. He is going to be busy in the spring huh?

I do have a question, NH and BR make Black Sexlinks right? What if I use BLUE BR? Blue Sexlinks????????

 

[ChickSter99]

When I put the girls in the coop tonight & did my routine head count, I have 3 missing My daughter is so upset about her silver cockoo maran & turken. We haven't had any problem with any predators even though I know they are there (obviously). We have searched for them & figured they would have been with their sisters if they were her. We haven't even found feathers but there are also 46 acres to search. We're hoping they are roosting in a tree which will be a first because they are on such a predictable time schedule 8:25pm on the dot.

 

[WinklerFarms]

If anyone can offer a suggestion for making Sexlinks of some kind for the spring let me know.  I know I can use Barred hens to make sexlinks, but maybe I am missing something else. 


This is what I have

Blue and Black Copper marans

BR's

EE


Leghorns (I don't think I can use them to make sexlinks)

Black Ams

Lav Ams

Wheatens

New Hampshires

Cuckoo Marans

Blue Rocks


I also have a STRAY straight combe BLRW pullet.... could I use her with anything to make sexlinks?


I was thinking of using my Barred EE to make sexlink EE

BR with the NH to make sexlinks

and the Cuckoos with the Marans to make sexlinks


I don't think I will use my SLW and BLRW this year for sexlinks.


 

Your new Hampshires wold work fine over a br hens, and the cockerels would be good for butcher roosters. I am sure your roo guy would appreciate that.

  My roo guy does not butcher ANYTHING!   He sells them after he grows them out.  He is going to be busy in the spring huh? 

I do have a question, NH and BR make Black Sexlinks right?  What if I use BLUE BR?  Blue Sexlinks????????

Not sure on that but it would fun to try. Being they are actually a cross it may not work.

 

[ChickSter99]

When I put the girls in the coop tonight & did my routine head count, I have 3 missing My daughter is so upset about her silver cockoo maran & turken. We haven't had any problem with any predators even though I know they are there (obviously). We have searched for them & figured they would have been with their sisters if they were her. We haven't even found feathers but there are also 46 acres to search. We're hoping they are roosting in a tree which will be a first because they are on such a predictable time schedule 8:25pm on the dot.

Cookie, our silver cockoo maran made it home this morning. Her feathers were ruffled & shuffled. I only found one boo boo on her toe. My fingers are crossed for the other two.

 

[ki4got]

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My roo guy does not butcher ANYTHING!

He sells them after he grows them out. He is going to be busy in the spring huh?

I do have a question, NH and BR make Black Sexlinks right? What if I use BLUE BR? Blue Sexlinks????????
i'd use a splash barred/cuckoo, then you have 100% blues & blue/barred

 

[DMRippy]

Quote:

My roo guy does not butcher ANYTHING!

He sells them after he grows them out. He is going to be busy in the spring huh?

I do have a question, NH and BR make Black Sexlinks right? What if I use BLUE BR? Blue Sexlinks????????
i'd use a splash barred/cuckoo, then you have 100% blues & blue/barred
I don't have any splash cuckoo pullets .... unless I just hatched some, I will keep that in mind.

 

[Arielle]

I have lived on the sex linked thread a while--have it on my fav list!

THe latest discussion lead me to understand:

Hen must carry silver or barred.Select which hen to use.

Then select a rooster to allow the hens genes to be visible on the chicks.

A silver gene (hen) with a red rooster = silver boys and red girls THe selection of the rooster is to have white chicks and brown or yellow chicks. I"m betting yeloow and silver chicks can be hard for a newbie to distinguish. Pick the red male based on a dark red chick coloring.

Barred hens --blue roosters are actually double black with a blue gene that washes out the black making it look blue. A dark chick like a black allows the white head spot to be visible on the boys. A white chick is useless here. The discussion centered on using roosters and hens that did not carry double black, like cross breds. for example I have an EE hen black came from black sexlink dad and mom is a red partridge color. Carried black and red. My understanding is that as long as head spot can be distinguished any chick down color will work ( blue, black, brown down) Yellow down and white down doesn't let the white spot show up enough to see it.

 

[DMRippy]

Had 3 GNH chicks, 1 Wheaten Am, 4 ExL x WL ... Odd thing, I put them in the brooder and one chick had a dark place on her nose and they started pecking her. I too her out and put her back in the hatcher. A few hours later one of the ExL x's as all bloody under both sets of wings.... never had that happen. The chicks in the brooder are less than a week old. I put some antipick on them and put them back. There was one chick that had more feathers than the others, but not much bigger, so it got booted out to the next age up brooder box. Maybe that will fix the problem. I have never had an issue with little chicks.

 

[Nsampsel]

Had 3 GNH chicks, 1 Wheaten Am, 4 ExL x WL ... Odd thing, I put them in the brooder and one chick had a dark place on her nose and they started pecking her. I too her out and put her back in the hatcher. A few hours later one of the ExL x's as all bloody under both sets of wings.... never had that happen. The chicks in the brooder are less than a week old. I put some antipick on them and put them back. There was one chick that had more feathers than the others, but not much bigger, so it got booted out to the next age up brooder box. Maybe that will fix the problem. I have never had an issue with little chicks.

I hatched out 3 little silkies & si22les from Marie & 3 days later hatched a cochin from elieugene6 & those darn ornery silkies kept pecking it in the face. They were even all the same si2e. Once the little cochin had it's whits & could peck back they quit, but still...YESH!!!

 

[WinklerFarms]

Just finished up a set of cream legbars. Out of eight eggs shipped 7 hatched with 4 pullets and 3 cockerels. So now in total I have 7 pullets and six cockerels. Now the wait is on for them to start laying....it is going to be a long 5 months!