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[chickengr]

The babies for this year, after these I don't thibk I'm allowed to have any more

but in this clutch I have two new colors, I think the greyish yellow is lavender, I don't say blue because it looks like it's an actual mix of grey and yellow, and then a white baby with the grey yellow color on its head, and a full chocolate! I love them all very much

The black one is Tulip, the I think lavender one is Orchid,The lavender pied is Gold, and the chocolate one is Pine

they are cute!

at what age can they have a bath?

 

[Buck Oakes]

I give them a shallow bath in the sink when they're 3 days old, but when thy are swimming you have to watch them the whole time and usually only get 10 minutes of bath time, and up until the time they get there juvenile feathers make sure they always have somewhere to stand up in the water oter out of it completly, when babies get too wet they tend to not be able to float obviously, so that's y you new to make sure they can always stand up, they're can be a deep end and a shallow end

 

[james420]

 

[dotporter]

i dont know i'm just a rookie in genetics, i know pretty much the basics if you want to know most things i would recommend talking to @dotporter

lol, Thanks Buck. I actually do have a picture of a silver with lavender.

 

[dotporter]

thank you. god knows what I will get as I put 6 eggs from 1 and 7 from the other one hen. I hope I didn't put males, lol. and I see I should take a good care of my girls as there will be no black and white ones, which are my favorite.

when I was buying a drake there was one very handsome, blue/white with some black on his head. but unfortunately was older. I chose a blue one hoping to get blue/black/white ducklings. if I keep 1 blue drake and cross him with a black hen will I get blue/black/white ducklings next year?

Yep, chickengr, black to blue will always give you black and blue. However, the hens with chocolate won't breed true unless bred to a drake which also carries chocolate. Bred to a black drake the chocolate hen will have babies as if she's black and the blue fawns will have babies as if they are just blue.

 

[Buck Oakes]

Dot is it possible like at all for two pied parents to have a white baby yet still have traces of the other in there dna? It's probably not possible since white is co dominant with other colors

 

[dotporter]

Hey Buck. I've actually had pied parents have solid white babies. The caps are the color of the parents, so I've had white ducks with blue caps. I'm not sure how it happens and it's pretty rare.

 

[Buck Oakes]

Cool, because I had a baby like that before but I gave him away like almost 3 weeks ago, along with 5 of his oter siblings, and those were my very first babies to ever give away I'm glad I got to keep those 4 though

 

[TherryChicken]

I'm trying to work with my broody hen, but still not much of a change. She still attacks me when I check for eggs, give eggs, or remove eggs.. my bruises are bumpy, extremely painful, and the bumps are kinda firm. Idk how much more I can take with trying to work with her this time. What do I do to stop it?

 

[Buck Oakes]

I'm sorry she's doing that therry but u have to admit, she's doing her job, imagine if a snake were to try and get to her nest, aren't you happy tht she would attack it rather than abandon the nest?