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[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yup, I just ran it through the handy-dandy Chicken Calculator and silver Sebright over recessive white produces 100% black split to recessive white offspring. Such a cutie, congrats!

 

[julie0477]

I was hoping for a pure silkie but kind of hard to be disappointed with this adorable little thing. . And thanks! That calculator is handy!

 

[pbirdhaven]

Anyone going to the White River poultry show at spencer Fair Grounds Saturday ??

Looking forward to chatting with you again, Sally--and to getting some more silkies!

 

[kabhyper1]

Thanks for all of the snack ideas for the chickies everyone! So any thoughts on mineral blocks? We feed Dumor Sheep and Goat minerals to our alpacas, and the chickens found them. They now go into the barn once a day to eat the mineral block. Here are the ingredients...
Wheat Middlings, Corn Gluten Feed, Corn Gluten Feed, Cottonseed meal, Wheat Flour, Salt, Molasses, Calcium Carbonate, Corn Distillers Dried Grains, Bentonite, Monocalcium Phosphate, Dicalcium Phosphate,Cobalt Carbonate, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin A supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Sodium Molybdate, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Ferrous Carbonate, Sodium Selenite.
Guaranteed Analysis:
CrudeProtein (min.) 18.00%, CrudeFat (min.) 2.00%, CrudeFiber (max.) 8.00%, Calcium(Ca) (min.) 3.30%, Calcium(Ca) (max.) 3.80%, Phosphorus(P) (min.) 1.00%, Salt(NaCl) (min.) 10.00%, Salt(NaCl) (max.) 12.00%, Sodium(Na) (min.) 4.50%, Sodium(Na) (max.) 5.50%, Iodine(I) (min.) 10.00ppm, Selenium(Se) (min.) 1.00ppm, Selenium(Se) (max.) 1.10ppm, Zinc(Zn) (min.) 170.00ppm, VitaminA (min.) 20,000IU/lb, VitaminD-3 (min.) 1,000IU/lb, Ruminant meat and bone meal free.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: Mine learned really fast not to peck at my toes even if food falls on them. I don't react well to sudden unplanned and shockingly annoying pain. Lots of screaming, kicking and tossing hard objects at the birds as fast as I can. I think each group has tried it once. Even the pan fry meanies did not go for a second round. I'm very much a flip flop person so I'm glad my chickens adjusted.

Yup, I just ran it through the handy-dandy Chicken Calculator and silver Sebright over recessive white produces 100% black split to recessive white offspring.

Such a cutie, congrats!

Is there a link to this calculator? i would love to see what a few of my upcoming barnyard mixes would look like.

 

[bradselig]

I've officially gone crazy and won the lavender cuckoo Cochin bantam eggs. Now I need o find some lavender Cochin bantams to breed them to to diversify the lines. But then again, think I will be waiting to see if they actually hatch! Lol

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

I've officially gone crazy and won the lavender cuckoo Cochin bantam eggs. Now I need o find some lavender Cochin bantams to breed them to to diversify the lines. But then again, think I will be waiting to see if they actually hatch! Lol

I think you can now officially join the hatchaholic club

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I've officially gone crazy and won the lavender cuckoo Cochin bantam eggs. Now I need o find some lavender Cochin bantams to breed them to to diversify the lines. But then again, think I will be waiting to see if they actually hatch! Lol

congrats on winning.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Here, Sally: http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html You can input the different loci for your birds, or click on 'Help, pick color from list' to select specific colors and bring them back to the calculator with 'To Chicken Calculator'. There's all sorts of other things on there, too! Have fun! I have since I found it. Now I've got all sorts of projects in mind...

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

And I took some pictures today, mainly of my little girls and Margie. Nothing makes ya feel better than time with the girls.

Rangi the Ancona, of course, who was practically standing on my head while I took Po's picture.

What a girl.

Huka the Silver Lakenvelder, who apparently did not want her picture taken:

Ihi the Golden Campine--she looks like a relative of racinchickens' Hamburg!

Roha the Exchequer Leghorn:

Whiri the Light Brown Leghorn--she is so, so pretty!

Marama the Egyptian Fayoumi, having a rest:

Po boy the black Cochin bantam:

Here's Roha again. She's always sticking her face in the camera.

And Whiri hiding her face while Frou-Frou, my beloved splash Marans, tries to get in on her dust bath.