Larkwell Valley (2023)

[NatJ]

Okay, that makes sense, thanks. I have two pullets with polydactyl, and their brother doesn't, so I know he's from a different male. I want to try and keep the polydactyl trait, but the father of those two pullets is absolutely not staying

If polydactyl is a dominant trait, those pullets should give it to about half of their chicks even if the father of the chicks does not have it.

On the other hand, if the father had just one polydactyl gene, he would give it to half of his chicks--so he could have produced a cockerel without it. If you know the father has two genes for the trait, then I agree the cockerel would have to be from a different father.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

The half Brother also looks way more phoenix than the polydactyl hens, but that is a good point that he might have just not gotten it. The daddy of those pullets has a lot of heterozygous dominant traits on him

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Well, Luna is done being a mama. The little has decided my Buff and the other mallard derived pack are her parents now, I guess. She's definitely happy with them and the older pack doesn't seem to really care she's tagging along. The younger ones aren't very nice, but they're all a separate pack for the most part. My poor Magpie hen is terrified of this little one, she runs away from her whej she gets near

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Well, Luna is done being a mama. The little has decided my Buff and the other mallard derived pack are her parents now, I guess. She's definitely happy with them and the older pack doesn't seem to really care she's tagging along. The younger ones aren't very nice, but they're all a separate pack for the most part. My poor Magpie hen is terrified of this little one, she runs away from her whej she gets near

Pekin hen is keeping the younger adults from getting close to baby when she's with her. So interesting watching this group considering that only one of them has even gone broody at all this year, and she left the nest when it failed.

Definitely way happier being the only baby in the flock than being with the older babies inside though.

 

[fuzzi]

Pekin hen is keeping the younger adults from getting close to baby when she's with her. So interesting watching this group considering that only one of them has even gone broody at all this year, and she left the nest when it failed.
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Definitely way happier being the only baby in the flock than being with the older babies inside though.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

@Canadian Wind @Miss Lydia @The Moonshiner @WVduckchick

Do you guys think cattle panel coops would work for ducks? Like if I wanted to do one for each group of birds?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Like using panels for hoop coops? Or?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Like using panels for hoop coops? Or?

Yeah, that's the word, hoop coop

 

[The Moonshiner]

Yeah, that's the word, hoop coop

Isadora kept her runner ducks in one.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Okay. I really like their look, and I think I might just do a handful of those when I move instead of building another minibarn