Michigan

[Nigellas]

If you do use poison you better make sure you bury really, really deep or burn the body because you don't want your dog or someone else's getting to it and have a snack for one last time.

I wasn't going to get in on this conversation, because I felt Olive covered the anti-poison side pretty well, but just in case you need another person saying this... Poison is REALLY a terrible death for an animal. As much as I hate raccoons, I'd *never* wish a death by poising on one or any animal, for that matter. A death by firing squad may seem violent to because you have to watch it, but trust me, as someone who has seen (at the Humane Society I worked at) animals dying from poison, it's a really violent, awful way to go.

 

[Mom 2em All]

No, I didn't (if I read it correctly). But if the FM gene was on the roo and crossed with the barred. That would be fasinating.

"The eggs marked Tx are from a pen with splash Naked Neck frizzle green-egger rooster with splash Naked Neck fibromelanotic green-egger hens and a barred Naked Neck green-egger hen"

translate that into English for me.

 

[Mom 2em All]

VANESSA!!!!!!!!!!!

You posted this on May 3rd...

"I'm going to dive in head first and commit to hauling my family on an adventure to meet chicken people I've only talked to online.

So the Wilmoth family will be there and will NOT be leaving with chickens...or anything else alive that didn't come with us. lol"

Can't wait to see you tomorrow and give you your three chickens...

 

[1muttsfan]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/629207/how-to-make-cukoo-silkies

Scroll down to post # 9 for an expanation of Fm gene

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

MEEEEEEEE.
and p.s,,,,now every time I see your bf I am going to think, "man boobs"..thanks. My husband must have sniffed ALOT of lavender.

I will make some up then!
And

This is the reply I got from Lisa, regarding the eggs she sent me.
Ive read it three times and my brain starts going "

" when I get to about the second sentence. So, I am going to copy it here and perhaps Robin or Olive can make sense of what they read. I understood BLUE, Black skinned, and the fact that all of them will probably hatch with yellow spots on their head. And zebra striped which I dont like.

"Oh, I meant to tell you about that one marked Tx ?.
It could be from a pen that has a blue barred Naked Neck green-egger rooster and barred green-egger hens. The last 2 pens I had been in were the Tx and that pen and marked the egg Tx, but then I couldn't remember for sure which pen it came from.

The eggs marked #2 are from a pen with splash Naked Neck frizzle green-egger rooster with black and blue Naked Neck green-egger hens.
The eggs marked Tx are from a pen with splash Naked Neck frizzle green-egger rooster with splash Naked Neck fibromelanotic green-egger hens and a barred Naked Neck green-egger hen.

Usually, if any Tx chicks hatch with a yellow head-spot, they will be blue barred and male. But if that egg marked Tx ? hatches with a yellow head-spot it could be male or female IF it came from that other pen."

I am not up-to-snuff on chicken breed/color terms, so this just makes me want to vomit if I have to figure it out...

 

[Mom 2em All]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/629207/how-to-make-cukoo-silkies

Scroll down to post # 9 for an expanation of Fm gene

Scroll down to post number nine for an explanation, she says...

" your problem will be birds with white skin, instead of birds with black skin. you see sex link barring(B) is tightly linked to sex link Dermal Inhibitor Id, and what makes silkies to have black skin is Fibromelanotic(Fm) Fm needs id+(wild type counterpart of Id, id+ is recessive and Id is dominant)... your first cross will be Id/id+ males and Id/- Females(if you used a cuckoo/barred roo over a silkie hen) or Id/id+ roosters and id+ none barred hens(if you use a cuckoo/barred hen mated to a silkie roo)...

if I had access to cuckoo silkies I would get them, instead of trying to breed them again from scratch, its realy hard you would need to breed in the hundreds to get recombinants(id+ B) "...


hahahahahahahahahaha!

clear as mud.


I got it figured out. Or, I will, once they hatch and I say OHHH LOOK...that one has black skin, and that one has zebra stripes, and that one OOOOHHHH that ONE..thats the one I want, but look! Its a roo....

 

[1muttsfan]

I like the last line - Just buy them from someone else

 

[gladahmae]

Glad, I know what you mean about being obsessed. I only wanted 10 or so hens right now I have 28 plus 4 that are my sons so thats 32 chicks, needless to say I am bringing some of the 6 week or is it 7 week old chicks to CS to sell because I am getting 4 Marans there. I know I know I should bring any other dog carrier with me so I won't be tempted but.......

Kimmie

I'm just REALLY wyandotte obsessed right now. I thought getting *one* gold laced and *one* silver laced would pacify me. Nope. NOW, I want a few blue laced reds, maybe a partridge, and a blue.

The problem is, only one hatchery has any blr available, and I have to get 25 chicks for an order, and by the time I get everything picked out, finagle it around for the shipping dates/availability to line up, I'm spending over $100. Soooo......maybe I need to wait until next spring and get some from a place that has a LOWER chick minimum. Or find someone to split an order with me. I also made the mistake of peeking through the olive egger thread. And someone about 20min from me has an ameraucana cockeral and maran chicks for sale right now (and a bunch of other kinds that could easily tempt me.)

Best of luck with the willpower at CS. I think it's probably a good thing that I have to work and it's a 4+hr drive for me

 

[Opa]

Quote:
Explaining the end result of all the above listed genetic mumbo jumbo is really quite easy and can be summed up with only two words.


UGLY BIRDS

 

[Mom 2em All]

Explaining the end result of all the above listed genetic mumbo jumbo is really quite easy and can be summed up with only two words.


UGLY BIRDS