Lavender patterned Isabel duckwing barred - lavender brown cuckoo barred - project and genetic dis

[cjwaldon]

Well I've got to grow Line B chicks out to confirm that they are indeed autosexing. So far Line A I've only missed on one.

 

[ChicKat]

Well I've got to grow Line B chicks out to confirm that they are indeed autosexing. So far Line A I've only missed on one.

That is fabulous. -- I'm so spoiled by autosexing -- it's aggravating to not have it.


Don't know how well this picture shows it -- but in my line - it seems that the girls have dark pigment right up to the eye, and the boys have a light ring around the eye. This I grabbed befire these two were gone this morning. Hatch was Sunday -

They look uncomfortable, don't they? - the dorsal stripe, head V and chipmunk stripes are sooooo very slightly different - it would be really difficult to tell.... The pairing was split male over Isabel female - so of these two chicks, both could lack barring gene -- Dad could have passed along his one barring gene to neither one of the chicks - and mom didn't have a barring gene to pass to chicks --
ETA if you open that top picture in a new tab or window, you can even see the tiniest start of a comb on the chick in front. Confirms my "boy' theory to a degree.

 

[Kiki]

Wow, I agree - that is an amazing hatch -- And that is a lot of chicks.

It is so cool that you have autosexing! Are your males double barred? I guess that would have to be for headspot. I am so excited for you, I think I will turn cartwheels down the hallway in celebration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

STOP....Do not try cartwheels.
I just tried doing one the other day and almost ended up in the hospital.

(not really but ...just saying)

 

[ChicKat]

STOP....Do not try cartwheels.
I just tried doing one the other day and almost ended up in the hospital.

(not really but ...just saying)

Good advice.

 

[campingshaws]

Light pink is def a boy. Faint head spot?

 

[Kiki]

Light pink is def a boy. Faint head spot?

YES Kiki wins!!
(one for me...so far)
LOL

 

[ChicKat]

Light pink is def a boy. Faint head spot?

How amazing these pictures ARE can only be appreciated if you open it in another tab (or window depending on your OS I'm sure)--- I can see every little dot of down on that top pict around the eye. And the color is so appealing too.

Yes, I think that there is a lighter area on the back of the head...and if it IS that is an indicator of barring, then you have a single barred Isabel male.

Was digging in the yard today -- planted daylilies and in one spot dug up a Beauty berry bush. - For those of you in the south who have them...- Did you know chickens LOVE Beauty Berries -- and that humans can eat them too? They have a very mild flavor - like banana custard or something. So now I don't hate them as much as I once did. They would take over every inch of this land if I let them I think -- it must be a perfect paradise for them. The digging up to a solid hour -- and at one point the tap root the depth of the shovel blade was as big around as my forearm -- not to mention the side roots. Did that instead of anything chicken-related for the thread.

Love your pictures!
Everyone who is contributing -- thanks a million!

 

[Kiki]

I've been spending two days trying to dig up some ginger something or other from in my yard...ARGH....so I know how you feel.


(It's called shell ginger...pretty flowers and smells great...it's just become a pain in the rear.)

 

[ChicKat]

I've been spending two days trying to dig up some ginger something or other from in my yard...ARGH....so I know how you feel.


(It's called shell ginger...pretty flowers and smells great...it's just become a pain in the rear.)

Interesting -- can you use it for cooking? I know that there is a wild ginger that is a good 'ground cover'. Sometimes that turns out to be 'everything cover'.

 

[Kiki]

I'm not sure..I tried asking my friend Mr. Google real quick but he isn't giving me a good answer yet.




found this: https://herbpathy.com/Uses-and-Benefits-of-Shell-Ginger-Cid3271

I don't believe everything I read on the internet so...I'd have to do way more research before I believe this but....hmm..