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The lovely pale chick in the previous post above is a male. I call him cotton candy. He’s really lovely.
I feel like there must be some kind of sex link activity going on with my snowies. Perhaps roux is messing everything up. I know my original snowie manchurian carries roux, plus many of my celadon hens are roux. I’m going to be crossing snowies only to non roux now to see if it helps, but I have 0 female snowies, several pearls and several dirty pearls, an Italian and 2 autumn ambers with fee and silver.
My oldest snowie carrier x celadons
sorry it’s raining)
They’re housed with my Tibetan hens, with a messy scarlet tux male and a pharaoh tux male, until I finish taking down the old pen and putting up the new one.
Here’s some of the younger group, a few nicer pearl hens, the lovely little snowie in the back center is the male, there were 4 snowie males to choose from, he was the prettiest, and I also kept cotton candy.
I have several eggs incubating now that are from this pen, normally I pair the carriers to my celadons, but these guys are still growing out, not everyone is laying so I didn’t move them around yet. With carrier to carrier, it’s only like a 25% chance a hen will lay blue in the next gen, but I hope at least one, maybe 2 lay blue. Once the males are big enough to handle the male jail, I’ll be moving Tiger Millionaire in there to make babies.
On to the rest of the project update, the carriers all lay lovely eggs. All are blue inside, some are blue or green speckled. Here are some I grabbed this morning:
I have about 14 hens from snowies x celadons so far. I feel like 3-4 lay blue based on the eggs I’m collecting. Since Snowflake the double silver only mates Baldi, I’ve been bringing in hens one at a time to live in that cage until I see them lay. Then I band them based on their egg color, and switch them with another unknown. I identified one definite blue layer so far. I have about 14 more snowie celadon carriers x celadon chicks that are almost 2 weeks. Of them, about 5 are really nice snowies so far, I’m hoping at least one will be a blue laying hen.
I feel like there must be some kind of sex link activity going on with my snowies. Perhaps roux is messing everything up. I know my original snowie manchurian carries roux, plus many of my celadon hens are roux. I’m going to be crossing snowies only to non roux now to see if it helps, but I have 0 female snowies, several pearls and several dirty pearls, an Italian and 2 autumn ambers with fee and silver.
My oldest snowie carrier x celadons
sorry it’s raining)They’re housed with my Tibetan hens, with a messy scarlet tux male and a pharaoh tux male, until I finish taking down the old pen and putting up the new one.
Here’s some of the younger group, a few nicer pearl hens, the lovely little snowie in the back center is the male, there were 4 snowie males to choose from, he was the prettiest, and I also kept cotton candy.
I have several eggs incubating now that are from this pen, normally I pair the carriers to my celadons, but these guys are still growing out, not everyone is laying so I didn’t move them around yet. With carrier to carrier, it’s only like a 25% chance a hen will lay blue in the next gen, but I hope at least one, maybe 2 lay blue. Once the males are big enough to handle the male jail, I’ll be moving Tiger Millionaire in there to make babies.
On to the rest of the project update, the carriers all lay lovely eggs. All are blue inside, some are blue or green speckled. Here are some I grabbed this morning:
I have about 14 hens from snowies x celadons so far. I feel like 3-4 lay blue based on the eggs I’m collecting. Since Snowflake the double silver only mates Baldi, I’ve been bringing in hens one at a time to live in that cage until I see them lay. Then I band them based on their egg color, and switch them with another unknown. I identified one definite blue layer so far. I have about 14 more snowie celadon carriers x celadon chicks that are almost 2 weeks. Of them, about 5 are really nice snowies so far, I’m hoping at least one will be a blue laying hen.
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is fave color u go fluffy ! Give birth to those green eyed celadon babies
