NY chicken lover!!!!

[Chicken girl 15]

It is a sex linked naked neck EE from my rooster Rye and my CCL hen

very cute. I get to turn on my bator Saturday. It's going to be a bunch of brown eggs going in with no idea what to expect. All the boys in the main group are spitzhauben and the bcm lives with my green layers as someone asked for olive Eggers if possible. So I mixed my green hens with my really dark roo and hope it works.

 

[tao chick]

So many bators and chickies! I've changed my plans a bit and will be waiting until at least May before I start my incubator. There is a squirrel, mouse, chipmunk, or rat that has developed a series of tunnels under and through the concrete floor of my coop. The weather won't allow me to repair it until May. Whatever it is, it has not gone after the adult chickens. It's stolen food and maybe eggs. I keep filling and covering the holes and they just find a new spot to come through. My deep litter has been destroyed.

Because my coop is in the barn I will probably have to move the whole flock out to a temporary coop this spring and rebuild the whole floor with some hardware cloth embedded. Ugh.

 

[cutipatooti]

So many bators and chickies! I've changed my plans a bit and will be waiting until at least May before I start my incubator. There is a squirrel, mouse, chipmunk, or rat that has developed a series of tunnels under and through the concrete floor of my coop. The weather won't allow me to repair it until May. Whatever it is, it has not gone after the adult chickens. It's stolen food and maybe eggs. I keep filling and covering the holes and they just find a new spot to come through. My deep litter has been destroyed.

Because my coop is in the barn I will probably have to move the whole flock out to a temporary coop this spring and rebuild the whole floor with some hardware cloth embedded. Ugh.

Sorry to hear this. What a pain in the butt.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

So many bators and chickies! I've changed my plans a bit and will be waiting until at least May before I start my incubator. There is a squirrel, mouse, chipmunk, or rat that has developed a series of tunnels under and through the concrete floor of my coop. The weather won't allow me to repair it until May. Whatever it is, it has not gone after the adult chickens. It's stolen food and maybe eggs. I keep filling and covering the holes and they just find a new spot to come through. My deep litter has been destroyed.

Because my coop is in the barn I will probably have to move the whole flock out to a temporary coop this spring and rebuild the whole floor with some hardware cloth embedded. Ugh.

Grrrr!!! All critters are good for nothing but cat food. I have 3 you can barrow. They are 7 months old and very cheap to feed as they prefer a live diet. I finally had to start buying food on a regular basis last month. They are super sweet and a bit upset I have no more critters.

 

[mittens4chickns]

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.

Thanks! Very helpful. Got more reading to do!

 

[myfivegirls]

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.

Adorable!

 

[Gramma Chick]

I had a little whipper snapper Cockerel ( 3- 4 months ) think Mama was his Inferior ..
I picked up some empty dishes ...he gave me a peck ...I swung at him ..I tried to do my ninja thing to him ..he danced away .
The next day he was the first one out of the coop ...another peck ..
This time I was ready... smacked him right away ...then did my ninja thing kicking .
He learned his lesson he now respects his mama ...The Boy on the right ..Daddy calls him Gone ...I call him Pistol
Newbys - Discipline Your Cockerels at the first sign of Aggression -

 

[Gramma Chick]

 

[Gramma Chick]

So many bators and chickies! I've changed my plans a bit and will be waiting until at least May before I start my incubator. There is a squirrel, mouse, chipmunk, or rat that has developed a series of tunnels under and through the concrete floor of my coop. The weather won't allow me to repair it until May. Whatever it is, it has not gone after the adult chickens. It's stolen food and maybe eggs. I keep filling and covering the holes and they just find a new spot to come through. My deep litter has been destroyed.

Because my coop is in the barn I will probably have to move the whole flock out to a temporary coop this spring and rebuild the whole floor with some hardware cloth embedded. Ugh.

So Sorry
Could be a rat ...Got a Rat trap ? Remove all food at night ..
When the chickens got to bed ..Put the trap in the coop ..
Check it before you go to bed and the chickens get up..
You may have a surprise

 

[tao chick]

So Sorry

Could be a rat ...Got a Rat trap ? Remove all food at night ..
When the chickens got to bed ..Put the trap in the coop ..
Check it before you go to bed and the chickens get up..
You may have a surprise

I have the sticky rat traps. I know one of the frequent burrows. I can try it.