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[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Was browsing around and found some very good info on feeding your chickens.... thought I would pass it along.

http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/avian/feedingchickens.pdf

Thanks BHep.....good info

 

[dutchbunny83]

What color eggs do Royal Palm turkeys lay?
Because I just got this egg that's biggest I've ever seen & my chickens are pretty small! I assumed they laid white, and this is the exact color of my Red Sex Link's eggs, but she just laid yesterday & even though her eggs are big this one is at least double. Here's a picture of her egg from yesterday & the mystery egg today. The pic doesn't even show the full size difference, it's huge holding them both.



Edit: I opened the egg & it was a double yolk. But I've never had a double yolk chicken egg THAT much bigger! Other odd thing-- both yolks have the fertilized bulls eye on it. I do have a tom that's walking around all strut up all the time, but I've never seen him mate with the turkey. I also had roosters up until Saturday, though I don't know that they were mature enough nor did I see them trying to get with the chickens (12 week old exchequer leghorn, & 20 week old Breda). Sooooo I don't really know. Been googling Royal Palm egg color, but can't find anything...

 

[dutchbunny83]

Assuming this is my red sex link's egg & assuming the fertilizer would be the leghorn I just gave away, can you incubate the eggs? In the back of my mind I remember something about not breeding sex links, or maybe that the offspring just wouldn't be as productive since it's a hybrid?

I think I might have to break out the incubator & find out, just opened an egg from earlier in the week & it has the fertile mark as well.....

 

[doubleatraining]

Assuming this is my red sex link's egg & assuming the fertilizer would be the leghorn I just gave away, can you incubate the eggs? In the back of my mind I remember something about not breeding sex links, or maybe that the offspring just wouldn't be as productive since it's a hybrid?

I think I might have to break out the incubator & find out, just opened an egg from earlier in the week & it has the fertile mark as well.....

Once a sex link is made the offspring can't be used to make a sex link.

 

[dutchbunny83]

Okay, thank you, so the mutt baby would be Leghorn, RIR, White Rock mix (since the latter two are what makes up the RSL at least I think?)

 

[ramirezframing]

Turkey eggs are speckled. And when it comes to sex links and breeding, you can't take a sex-link hen and put her with a sex link rooster to get more sex-links. Thus any baby from a sex-link (whether the sex-link is a hen or rooster) would just be a mutt. And if your leghorn was only 12 weeks old but the bredas were 20 weeks old, any fertilized eggs would be from the breda roosters not the leghorn.

 

[dutchbunny83]

Okay, thank you so much for all the info.
I'm not usually a fan of the barnyard mix type chickens, but I've never gotten a fertile egg before!!! Haha I was so excited, I just have to try to incubate it.
The reason I was thinking it was the leghorn was because he was crowing already& the Breda were really slow to develop, no sign of crowing, still pretty small wattles.
But it would make more sense with the age.
Actually now that I think about it, the leghorn might be more like 16 weeks. I don't know I hatched too many eggs this fall I can't keep any of them straight without looking at my calendar of hatch dates.
But I do know the Breda were first, so they're at least 4 weeks apart.

Fingers crossed I can get something to hatch!

This is a pointless question now because I opened the double egg, but out of curiousity has anyone ever hatched a double yolk egg? If you got the twins to develop they'd probably have a hard time getting out of the shell?

 

[ramirezframing]

Yup, there's threads on hatching twins.....

 

[Tikkijane]

This post has a link to a twin hatching video.

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/01/how-hen-makes-egg-egg-oddities.html?m=1

 

[FVRM]

IT FINALLY HAPEPENED.

I broke an egg in my hoodie's pocket. This must mean I am a real homesteader now.