NY chicken lover!!!!
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Chicks from GFF - that's even more fun! And less stress going eggs will hatch.
Yes, I have quite a few bantam Cochin mixes, but surprisingly they only account for 3 of the broodies currently. Lydia's a Partridge Chantecler & her daughter a cross thereof, but was raised by a broody herself. The others are a pure Bielefelder hen & a Biel/EE.
I'm sure because I'm getting lots of eggs, so the favorite nesting boxes contain at least 8-10 eggs, since I don't usually collect multiple times a day unless saving for hatching. Plus, many have been raised by broody hens themselves, so I think that makes them more likely to go broody. I may try to break a few of them, since I can only have so many with chicks at one time! Lol
Sure thing.
Thank you
I knew that they'd be different, but didn't know how..
Like I didn't know what breeds made it happen - are barred the only ones?
And I didn't know what the babies would look like - is dot/no dot the only way to tell?
And I still don't know the science behind it, but I likely won't for a while, as I'm better at learning by doing and not so much by reading, at least when it comes to complex things like genetics.
I'm still in the process of absorbing as much info as I can!
Right now I'm looking into playing music for the incubating eggs.. It's done for babies in utero, and plants, maybe it's good for eggs and chicks too?
Like I didn't know what breeds made it happen - are barred the only ones? NO THERE ARE OTHERS
Different breed mixes have different characteristics at hatch...
This link may help
http://countrysidenetwork.com/daily/poultry/chickens-101/understanding-sex-link-hybrid-chickens/
Barred sex linking, wherein the offspring are usually known as black sex links, are possible because barring in chickens is a sex linked gene. A basic explanation is that when you put a non barred rooster (and non white so you can see the head spot in the chick's down at hatch) over a barred hen, all the males will hatch single barred and will have a head spot, while the females will not be barred and not have a head spot. This works because a female always passes barring to her sons and never passes it to her daughters. A hen can only get barring from her father, and that's also why hens can only be single barred whereas males can be double barred and have two copies of the barring gene.
I could go deeper into this with an explanation of chicken chromosomes and how this works if you wanted. Unfortunately reading is the only way you'll understand the how of why it works, that part can't be learned just by doing
There are also red sex links, which you get when you cross a gold male to a silver female.
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Look what hatched today 
It's the cutest thing! And also a black sex link although the down color isn't great for seeing a head spot. I'm going with pullet for now based on what I can see.
It's the cutest thing! And also a black sex link although the down color isn't great for seeing a head spot. I'm going with pullet for now based on what I can see.
Chicken girl 15
Songster
what is that?? It's cute..Look what hatched today
It's the cutest thing! And also a black sex link although the down color isn't great for seeing a head spot. I'm going with pullet for now based on what I can see.
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