IT WORKED!!! AI EXPLANATION PG. 2............

[Poulets De Cajun]

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I will try to briefly explain as best I can.

You basically take the roo and sit in a chair. I'm right handed, so I took the roo and placed his breast on my left lap, and held him by his legs (as close to the body as possible) with my right hand. Then I took my left hand and formed a "C" with my fingers and wrapped them over his back, placing my fingers behind, and under the wings. I then rubbed a few times briskly and putting slight pressure on each side by SLIGHTY pinching my fingers and thumb together. Rub in the direction of his rear, pushing your fingers from the wings to his vent. After a few brisk rubs applying slight pressure, take your left hand and with the backside of your hand lift his tail so that your index finger and thumb are close to the vent area. Then with your right hand grab a spoon, or have someone hold the spoon for you, and place it just under the vent. When the spoon is in place, take your left hand and with your index finger and thumb squeeze on each side of the vent. (the best way to explain is its kinda like trying to pop a zit, and the vent would be the zit) If you squeeze just right, the semen will come out of the vent just as if he were pooping. Catch the semen with the spoon.

At this point you'll either keep the semen in the spoon, or suck it up with a syringe with the needle taken off.

Then you grab a hen who is laying. You position her on your leg the same way you did the roo. You position your hands the same way on her body and you rub her the same way you do the roo. You also squeeze her vent the same way, except instead of semen coming out, she "pushes" her oviduct out, which resembles a the end of a tube. You either take the spoon, or the syringe and GENTLY place the semen on or slightly in the oviduct, taking care not to tear or injur her. Once the semen is deposited correctly, she will "wink" at you with her vent.

And your done! Wait a day or two and you should then start getting fertilized eggs.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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Unfortunately early on in the lavender breeding project, some breeders crossed lavenders with whites to improve type. This introduced all kinds of other colors, because as we all know white covers everything else.

Lavender works the same way as whites, takes two genes to produce the color, and it covers everything else. So not knowing what colors my lavender is hiding, i'll more than likely get mutts and blacks.

there is always the one in a million chance that he has black genes under his lavender coat, but the chances of that actually happening are slim to none.

 

[katrinag]

Very helpfull. Thank you. I can not wait to see those fuzzy butts.

 

[Missouri chick]

you learn something new every day. I've ai'd cows, horses, and dogs. Very interesting in chickens.

 

[cowman910]

how many fertile eggs can you get after you AI the hen?

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

My husband would think I'm crazy if he saw me, umm "stimulating," my rooster!

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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For optimum fertility, most people AI every third day or so.

 

[HayDiddlesHens]

First of all, its not what you THINK, and second of all it isn't anything like you picture.... get your mind out of the gutter....LOL Just to put your mind at ease, the roo more or less just poops in a spoon! Thats all that is involved.

And usually the only people that have to AI are the folks that raise birds for show. Because we strategically breed their birds for the extra "fluff" it gets in the way of natural breeding, so we have to AI. Trimming them also helps, but I refuse to trim my birds.

How do you do it? I have silkies too, but I don't know what i'm looking for when I AI. Is it white or clear?