NY chicken lover!!!!

[Chicken girl 15]

my broody has 2 little fluff balls. 1 hatched Friday am one Saturday am. She has them tucked under her at the first sight of another chicken. She has them eating and drinking and playing already.

 

[boskelli1571]

FROM CENTER OF DISEASE -
isnt linked to a single hatchery...random outbreak
http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/live-poultry-05-16/

I really think people need to be more careful in handling their chickens. First priority after handling has to be - WASH YOUR HANDS. Sadly salmonella isn't the only disease that can pass from chooks to humans...so take the necessary steps to keep you and your family safe.
Ok - nursey lecture over

. Welcome to all the newbies.
Chicken girl 15 - glad to know I'm not the only one with broody hens still. My Millies are determined to sit. If they hatch, I will have another 3 - hoping for girls as I already have too many boys...

 

[rancher hicks]

I really think people need to be more careful in handling their chickens. First priority after handling has to be - WASH YOUR HANDS. Sadly salmonella isn't the only disease that can pass from chooks to humans...so take the necessary steps to keep you and your family safe.
Ok - nursey lecture over

. Welcome to all the newbies.
Chicken girl 15 - glad to know I'm not the only one with broody hens still. My Millies are determined to sit. If they hatch, I will have another 3 - hoping for girls as I already have too many boys...

Another thing we can do it try to keep rodents away from our birds. Many hatchery problems are due to rodent infestations.

I've been setting traps loaded with everything I can think of. I even bought bottle of "bait". Which by the way did nothing.

So I've switched to Blue cheese. I told DW to get me some stinky cheese. I've even consider getting a cat.

I've been working on eliminating places mice can build a nest or tunnel. Not easy I assure you.

I did catch one last evening and the evening before a big fatty. I still think there are others.

Ground hogs are rodents and I've blocked it' entrance under the coop so I think it has take off. I hope so, but I've set a couple of traps for it as well.

Has anyone used "Stay Away"? I just stumbled on it's advertisement.



We can only do the best we can.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I really think people need to be more careful in handling their chickens. First priority after handling has to be - WASH YOUR HANDS. Sadly salmonella isn't the only disease that can pass from chooks to humans...so take the necessary steps to keep you and your family safe.
 Ok - nursey lecture over .  Welcome to all the newbies.
Chicken girl 15 - glad to know I'm not the only one with broody hens still. My Millies are determined to sit. If they hatch, I will have another 3 - hoping for girls as I already have too many boys...

I have a second broody just starting Thursday so I'm excited. Broody 1 has 6 chicks and 4 more eggs. I'm not sure if I should keep giving her the chicks as they hatch from the incubator but I guess as long as she will take them I will keep giving.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

So yet another genetics question. I have rir hens and black austrolorp hens, mated to 2 gold spitzhauben and 1 silver spitzhauben roo . All eggs under my broody and in my incubator are brownish. Why do I have yellow chicks??

 

[Beer can]

So yet another genetics question. I have rir hens and black austrolorp hens, mated to 2 gold spitzhauben and 1 silver spitzhauben roo . All eggs under my broody and in my incubator are brownish. Why do I have yellow chicks??

Probably from the cross, I don't know anyone on this thread that has the vast wealth of info on color genetics (maybe Pyxis has a chart/input?) that I've seen on some other threads, I don't usually pay much attention to the XYZ cross genes for color or other, all Greek to me, only one I get is the black blue splash on pure breeds, that's easy. Then there's white, dominate white, recessive white, barred, uhqe3rui1o2fhui, lost me, Lol!

How's your corny X's doing? Have any pullets, a couple maybe three, that you'd be willing to part with?

 

[PhoredaBurds]

So yet another genetics question. I have rir hens and black austrolorp hens, mated to 2 gold spitzhauben and 1 silver spitzhauben roo . All eggs under my broody and in my incubator are brownish. Why do I have yellow chicks??

Color of the egg is determined by the laying hen. Color of the chick is determined by the hen x roo cross. Silver is dominant over gold, so any chicks sired by that silver roo will hatch out yellow or silver. Black (Australorp) covers other colors, so those hens could be silver based rather than gold based, so their chicks would be yellow or silver too.

 

[Gramma Chick]

chicks sitting at the table

Cowboy is a little sweetie !
he peeps at me till I pet him ..then he settles down under my hand at night ..making happy sounds ...he is alone..his mama released him ..she had another chick but it died .
So I am his Mama now ..while I was doing this a larger chick jumped on my arm ...He sat right up and pecked her feet ..like he was protecting me ..
till she pecked him back ..LOL
He stopped when she pecked him back

 

[Gramma Chick]

So yet another genetics question. I have rir hens and black austrolorp hens, mated to 2 gold spitzhauben and 1 silver spitzhauben roo . All eggs under my broody and in my incubator are brownish. Why do I have yellow chicks??

my yellow chicks turned out white

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Probably from the cross, I don't know anyone on this thread that has the vast wealth of info on color genetics (maybe Pyxis has a chart/input?)  that I've seen on some other threads, I don't usually pay much attention to the XYZ cross genes for color or other, all Greek to me, only one I get is the black blue splash on pure breeds, that's easy. Then there's white, dominate white, recessive white, barred, uhqe3rui1o2fhui, lost me, Lol!
How's your corny X's doing? Have any pullets, a couple maybe three, that you'd be willing to part with?

you can come take a look but I would suggest waiting about 2 weeks so my Cackle order is in and growing. I'm not sure about this set.