My project chicks

[NewbieChickieMama]

Eggs due the 6 and I just realized the turner wasnt plugged in....

You'll likely have a reduced hatch rate, but the odds are you'll be presently surprised at how many DO hatch. Chicken eggs are tough survivors! In my cabinet incubator, I've taken a group of eggs out to put in the hatcher and forgotten to turn back on the turner for several days twice now. Reduced the hatch slightly. Now yours was for more days, looks like, but keep your fingers crossed!!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Shoot. Are they still alive?

Allot of them werent fertile to start with but the ones that are are going fine...until monday when power prolly will go out from the wind.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

You'll likely have a reduced hatch rate, but the odds are you'll be presently surprised at how many DO hatch. Chicken eggs are tough survivors! In my cabinet incubator, I've taken a group of eggs out to put in the hatcher and forgotten to turn back on the turner for several days twice now. Reduced the hatch slightly. Now yours was for more days, looks like, but keep your fingers crossed!!

This isnt the first time i forgot to turn the turner on lol happened quite a few years ago it was off the entire time and still hatched fine

 

[Yard Farmer]

Allot of them werent fertile to start with but the ones that are are going fine...until monday when power prolly will go out from the wind.

That's good. Hopefully you have a decent hatch.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Well down to two eggs so these males gonna get culled imma need a new male....
Someone refresh my memory ...
Silver laced rooster over black laced would give both silver and gold/black right?

 

[NagemTX]

Take with a grain of salt but the calculator says gold males and silver females.

 

[Yard Farmer]

Well down to two eggs so these males gonna get culled imma need a new male....
Someone refresh my memory ...
Silver laced rooster over black laced would give both silver and gold/black right?

What males are you using now?

 

[NatJ]

Someone refresh my memory ...
Silver laced rooster over black laced would give both silver and gold/black right?

A "Silver Laced" chicken actually has black lacing on silver.
So does your "Black Laced" have black lacing on some shade of red/gold?

If yes, then the cross will probably give "silver laced" chicks. The lacing will be black, all chicks will show silver (but maybe not good quality silver) and the males will carry gold. Crossing one of those males to a gold hen will give some sons and some daughters that show gold, and some of each that show silver (males carrying gold.) Or, crossing one of the gold/silver split males to a silver hen will give some gold daughters and some silver daughters, with males looking silver (some carrying gold and some not.)

Take with a grain of salt but the calculator says gold males and silver females.

With a Silver rooster, it should not say that.

It probably says "yellow/golden" for the males, or something of the sort, and it really means they have both the silver and the gold genes. They tend to look just silver as young chicks, and grow up to have their "silver" color a bit yellowish, sometimes with red leakage. They are not the same as actual gold males. I wish the calculator would change the way it describes that, because people keep thinking they can get color-sexable chicks that way, but it doesn't work (all chicks look silver when they are young enough that color-sexing would be useful.)

 

[NagemTX]

A "Silver Laced" chicken actually has black lacing on silver.
So does your "Black Laced" have black lacing on some shade of red/gold?

If yes, then the cross will probably give "silver laced" chicks. The lacing will be black, all chicks will show silver (but maybe not good quality silver) and the males will carry gold. Crossing one of those males to a gold hen will give some sons and some daughters that show gold, and some of each that show silver (males carrying gold.) Or, crossing one of the gold/silver split males to a silver hen will give some gold daughters and some silver daughters, with males looking silver (some carrying gold and some not.)


With a Silver rooster, it should not say that.

It probably says "yellow/golden" for the males, or something of the sort, and it really means they have both the silver and the gold genes. They tend to look just silver as young chicks, and grow up to have their "silver" color a bit yellowish, sometimes with red leakage. They are not the same as actual gold males. I wish the calculator would change the way it describes that, because people keep thinking they can get color-sexable chicks that way, but it doesn't work (all chicks look silver when they are young enough that color-sexing would be useful.)

That is what I ment. Was supposed to be Golden not gold.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

What males are you using now?

These two. I started with the male on the right had bad fertility then switched him with his brother on the left had way better fertility but am getting chicks with leg issues had 4 so far that was culled because of leg issues and one that had eye issues or something.