Jacin's Poultry 2022

[NatJ]

My cornish bamtams had ugly stages too, but nothing quite like this. But the chick is acting just fine and dandy like her siblings. Just way uglier.

That look a lot like the chicks I've had with slow feathering. So if it's acting healthy, I would just provide heat as long as the chick needs it, but otherwise not treat it any differently than the others.

But for breeding purposes, remember it can pass on that gene to its offspring, and consider whether you care about that!

Recap of the genetics: slow feathering is on the Z sex chromosome and is dominant. So a female either has it or she doesn't, and a male shows it when he's got one copy of the gene or two. If you have a slow feathering female, and breed to a fast feathering rooster, you get feather-sexable chicks, with the daughters feathering fast and the sons slow but carrying fast.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

That look a lot like the chicks I've had with slow feathering. So if it's acting healthy, I would just provide heat as long as the chick needs it, but otherwise not treat it any differently than the others.

But for breeding purposes, remember it can pass on that gene to its offspring, and consider whether you care about that!

Recap of the genetics: slow feathering is on the Z sex chromosome and is dominant. So a female either has it or she doesn't, and a male shows it when he's got one copy of the gene or two. If you have a slow feathering female, and breed to a fast feathering rooster, you get feather-sexable chicks, with the daughters feathering fast and the sons slow but carrying fast.

Okay, cool
Thanks

 

[JacinLarkwell]

One of my Cornish may be culled tomorrow. Her toe is infected somehow and it's getting worse within a day.

We are starting to wonder if there is something in the dirt because this female never had frostbite or interacted with the flock that is usually having these problems

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Cleared out and replaced three dud eggs in the bator. 2 stopped developing and the 3rd didn't start at all (not surprised). One had just started forming a blood ring on day 7 and had finished forming it on day 8. The second only made it to day 2, maybe day 3

Spoiler: Eggtopsy

Obviously too early to look for defects on the one. The older one appeared fine externally, and as we all know, sometimes chicks just fail to develop. 19 out of 21 developing eggs so far isn't bad. We'll see if the new three (2 green eggs and a polish) improve the rate or not

 

[JacinLarkwell]

First order ships this Wednesday

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Had a feral cat spook the pheonix from the nest and eat a rabbit on the eggs.

So that bin is now trashed and that clutch was lost from contamination.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Moved the barred cochin pair up to the cochin pen, so now those eggs will all be fertile again

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Oml, it's too early, but I swear I just saw an egg shake

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Thinking my tiny sebright egg is gonna hatch early if it makes it. It's pretty full already and there still is a week to go give or take

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Calico Princess egg had a blood ring today. Not too surprised, but it still is a bit of a bummer.