Maine

[hoppy]

I know you don't eat your birds but would the soup kitchen take them? maybe there would be a local butcher willing to donate their services to finish them for the soup kitchen.

Sadly, today is rooster cull day. We don't eat them so it is such a waste

. I feel better though knowing they go humanely, dh talks to them and pets them on the way over, he is such a good guy. He doesn't like to do it but does for me. I think the only roo I won't be able to cull is the cream legbar, so pretty and nice.... will have to find a home for him. The silver laced Brahma boys are so laid back, but loud.....so I know dh feels really bad for them because he has delayed them for over a week now. Now we are down to the wire. Gotta figure out where these last hens will be going so we can deconstruct the coops and get the remaining residents moved.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Wow! Uh.... I'm a monster I guess. I was told by a guy at the fair twice that turkens were hybrids, Odd. You bring up some great points about their values. Hmmm.

I was thinking he thought they were a cross between a turkey and a chicken (hybrid). I wanted to dispel that myth. Sorry if I misunderstood. They're a chicken as much as a rhode island red is. The naked neck gene is dominant (meaning one copy of the gene is all that's needed to make a turken) so you could cross a turken to another non-turken and get a turken (or even a non-turken if the gene isn't passed on) out of it. So yes, in that sense, they can be hybrids because they don't breed "true." There are some types of turkens that breed true and the standard recognizes a certain type of comb and color for the turken. All others are considered cross bred.

Here's some of my turken cross breeds for you to ogle, monster PS I have some 8-ish week old turkens for sale, both male and female, if anyone is interested. I have some that lay brown eggs and some that lay olive green. Mine are all 'hybrids' in that sense!

 

[klf73]

I am going to sell one of my bantam choc orp boys. The way this gene works is the first cross to black will give you black cockerals that carry the chocolate gene (which will produce choc pullets if bred to regular black) and chocolate pullets (will have to double check that).

If someone wants to work on a chocolate project this is the way to do it. I will part with the cockeral for $50

 

[klf73]

This is the oegb trio I was talking about. I would keep them but the roo gets the other roos going :/ . I will send them free if picked up local



eta- the hens are from Andy Barnes bbr cock, if anyone knows oegb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

This is the oegb trio I was talking about. I would keep them but the roo gets the other roos going

. I will send them free if picked up local

I know you're not trying to get sympathy, but I do feel very sorry for you and your situation.

Is there a swap coming up this weekend where you could find some good homes?

 

[klf73]

I know you're not trying to get sympathy, but I do feel very sorry for you and your situation.

Is there a swap coming up this weekend where you could find some good homes?

thanks

I don't have time for a swap with all the stuff we need to get done this weekend. I know I can unload everything on craigslist but wanted to see if my "chicken friends" wanted them first.

 

[klf73]

ok, another group that I have been putting off...
I have a tailed lavender araucana, came from a nice blue egg. he has a tiny tuft on one side. he has with him 3 girls...a splash andalusian, a silver spangled hamburg, and an ameraucana x araucana (rumpless and bearded). These are just under 2 years old. They are well trained (lol) so when we open their box they walk to their pen (dh never made a door) and at night they roost in their run so we have to carry them back to their coop. They are really nice and the roo is not aggressive at all and is pretty quiet. I will keep him as long as I can but can't put it off forever. I will let his girls go with him, they all lay regularly. free to good home...

 

[hoppy]

are you sure the chocolate is sexlinked? I know of recessive chocolate too.

I am going to sell one of my bantam choc orp boys. The way this gene works is the first cross to black will give you black cockerals that carry the chocolate gene (which will produce choc pullets if bred to regular black) and chocolate pullets (will have to double check that).

If someone wants to work on a chocolate project this is the way to do it. I will part with the cockeral for $50

 

[klf73]

are you sure the chocolate is sexlinked? I know of recessive chocolate too.

I got these from Jean (pips&peeps) and got the low down on these.
I know if I cross a choc to a black I will get choc pullets and black cockerals that carry chocolate...
and if you take the black cockeral that carries chocolate and breed to a black hen you will get 25% chocolate pullets. and this is the part I am not sure of, will have to check my notes
the roosters need two copies of this gene to express it, the hens only need one...which is why the chocolate rooster is more valuable than the chocolate hen if you want to introduce the color. The chocolate rooster produces chocolate pullets on first cross
chocolate roo x black = 50% chocolate pullets and 50% black cockerals carrying gene
F1 roo x unrelated black = 25% chocolate pullets, 25% black pullets, 25% black cockerals and 25% black cockerals carrying the chocolate gene

the difficult part of the F2 is knowing which roos are black and which are carrying the chocolate gene...which can be discovered when test mated because they will produce chocolate pullets....

 

[annabananaandfamily]

I have the strangest german shepherd ever. When she was younger and I left the house, I used to just let her have run of the house. She would open up the dryer, pull out the clean clothes and stuff them into her water dish, making sure no part of the clothing article she had chosen was left hanging out of the dish. We used to give her our pizza crust to munch on....until we started finding them stuffed INSIDE our pillow cases and actually tucked under our covers when we crawled into bed. She knows how to open doors using her front paws like hands. And now she has decided that instead, of doing her business in the lush, open grass or even in the woods available to her, she will poop instead in the middle of the driveway right in the path of my daycare clients every morning.