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[ellymayRans]

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[COLOR=8B4513]So hatchery choice is like a surprise to see what it turns out to be?[/COLOR]
[COLOR=8B4513]That will be fun![/COLOR]
[rule][COLOR=8B4513]@pipdzipdnreadytogo
[/COLOR]   [COLOR=8B4513]Re my two larger black cochins with some of their poufy tail feathers missing ~ I saw Tweedy pick a feather of one of them again today because she was in Tweedy's way of a food bowl, but then I saw each of them peck each other's poufs! They are very competitive, but that seems weird that they pull out a feather instead of pecking on the head. Must be pouf-envy.[/COLOR]

I have the pair separated for breeding now as I don't trust otherwise! I will get some good pics of them tomorrow to post so you can see Monday looks just like her momma!

Now don't forget me if you decide to rehome the other two girls. I want them please! I'll pair them back to my Olive Eggers since I have only hatched roos! Of course the only two girls were an accident! Go figure!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Ooo gotta another external pip all the sudden! This is the one major struggle when hatching! I can't get myself to stop checking on them and of course just as I decide to go to bed, one last peek and Boom there it is! Now I don't wanna go to bed! But I have to! Just have to! DS has baseball at 6am and I have to go workout! Have to! Sigh!

ROFL I am watching too, I have an EE out, and several eggs to go! I keep running into the garage to see who else is hatched. I have a MG pipped!!!!!!

 

[ellymayRans]

There are so many causes for a "sticky" chick its not necessarily anything you are doing either. I dry incubate, and not by choice but due to our dry house. I only see this happen in shipped eggs when it does. I don't know if shipping has an effect? I have read so many different opinions on it. My best luck is to up my humidity as high as I can the last 3 days. Fill the reservoir with hot water, and surround the eggs with wet sponges. Once I get my coolerbater back up and running it will help, I can add a lot more humidity and the new fan I am adding is less output. I currently have a 120 electric AC fan in there and its WAY too much air moving. Going with an 80mm dc fan with an adapter for it for ac. I am adding a window too! Hoping it will improve hatches without shrink wrapping from our humidity issues. The sportsman is awesome for incubation, stable temps but using the hatching tray is difficult with a dry house during the winter.

I wondered if it had to do with the funky air cells. I pretty much dry incubated. Just havING very little water in only 1 medicine cap. That kept humidity at about 25%. I waited til yesterday to bump humidity but by the time I got home today it was down from 60% to 50% so I added a paper towel torn into 3 pieces so I could wet them then roll them up dropping them into the bator via the vent holes. Now it's at 70%.

 

[ellymayRans]

ROFL I am watching too, I have an EE out, and several eggs to go! I keep running into the garage to see who else is hatched. I have a MG pipped!!!!!!

Woohoo! If only my garage were heated! I had a chicken room in my office but my DS hated living in the basement so I let him move back upstairs into that room. It's right off the great room. He's a social bug and hates being away from all the action! Lol! I would have given anything at 15 to have my own 1400 Sq ft "apartment"! Kids these days!haha

 

[ellymayRans]

I just need to setup down there. It's just so far away! Lol!!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

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Quote: Oh thats great! I do roll eggs up in wet paper towel when its this cold so they get that extra boost of humidity. Especially if its an assisted hatch, I get the airway open and put them back.
LOL, its kinda like a heated garage. DH has a duct running in but its still studs and insulation right now! Someday my house will be finished out. The house with our addition is like 3000 some sq ft, but its a long way from done. We built on here and sold our house when my parents health went down hill.

 

[ksrygler]

from Avoca Indiana I am looking for somewhere local to find any of these breeds

PLYMOUTH ROCK, DOMINIQUE, FAVORELLO, DORKING, BLACK SEX LINK, BUFF ORPINGTON, FRIZZLE, SIZZLE

IF YOU HAVE OR KNOW ANYONE CLOSE TO BEDFORD OR BLOOMINGTIN INDIANA WITH ANY OF THESE BREEDS PLEASE PM ME!

Thanks so much
Kristi

 

[bradselig]

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It may still be NN but recessive if I understand correctly. I am just learning all the stuff with genetics and its not my best subject! Quote]

I thought NN to NN would breed true but I guess not. I understand if NN to NonNN would give split but I didn't realize they would even if bred to each other. The one that had a late death on or about day 13 was a NN but I just hope the others hatch. I'm worried now seeing how sticky the one that did hatch. The air cells on several of them were pretty off in that they were on top but then on one side extend almost all the way down one side. The babe's are alive when I candled yesterday checking for internal pips before bumping humidity. I can't see my mark from the egg that hatched so I'm not sure if it was one of them or not. I'm hatching upright in a modified styrofoam carton too which I've never done before. After having none hatch from some shipped AM eggs last time I thought I'd do it differently as some of the reading I did suggested it for shipped eggs. Time will tell!

From my understanding, the nn gene is dominate. If they carry the gene they will express it visiually. However they can have a single copy or double copy of the gene. You can tell the difference by the bow tie on the neck. If the neck is completely bare then that chick is homozygous for nn (carrying two copies of the gene). If they have the bowtie, then they are heterozygous for nn (only carrying one copy of the gene). So if you breed bow tie to bow tie, approx 50% of chicks will be bow tied, 25% will be completely bare necked, and 25% will be normal. Breed bare necked to bare neck and 100% of chicks will be bare necked. Bare necked to normal chicken, 100% will be bow tied. Bow tied to normal chicken; 50% now tied and 50% normal. Bare neck to bowtie, another 50%/50% split of bow tied and bared neck.

 

[ellymayRans]

From my understanding, the nn gene is dominate. If they carry the gene they will express it visiually. However they can have a single copy or double copy of the gene. You can tell the difference by the bow tie on the neck. If the neck is completely bare then that chick is homozygous for nn (carrying two copies of the gene). If they have the bowtie, then they are heterozygous for nn (only carrying one copy of the gene). So if you breed bow tie to bow tie, approx 50% of chicks will be bow tied, 25% will be completely bare necked, and 25% will be normal. Breed bare necked to bare neck and 100% of chicks will be bare necked. Bare necked to normal chicken, 100% will be bow tied. Bow tied to normal chicken; 50% now tied and 50% normal. Bare neck to bowtie, another 50%/50% split of bow tied and bared neck.

Thanks for the rundown brad!

 

[ellymayRans]

Well finally the second chick hatched and is again marked blue and came out yellow And NonNN!