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fisherlady said:
Would need a close up of the back of his neck and his back, under where his wing ends to be sure....but I think it is a rooster.

Pointy feathers in either of those two places I mentioned are classic signs.
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I'm so nervous about that.

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The pullet is dealt with. Can I freeze her whole, then dissect her when I am ready? I don't want to waste the experience, but I don't have the stomach for it right now. If defrosting her would make a mess, I will just bury her.
 
MotorcycleChick said:
The pullet is dealt with. Can I freeze her whole, then dissect her when I am ready? I don't want to waste the experience, but I don't have the stomach for it right now. If defrosting her would make a mess, I will just bury her.
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Never tried dissecting a frozen or thawed bird before.
 
My new Dickey incubator arrived today!
I'm just too exhausted to set it up tonight. I took a truck and my nephew to go pick up a coop and some pullets from a customer that was told by his landlord they had to go. The pullets are 4 Welsummers and a Rhodebar I sold him back in Jan. They should be coming into lay soon so I will have even more eggs to put in that new incubator.
 
MotorcycleChick said:
The pullet is dealt with. Can I freeze her whole, then dissect her when I am ready? I don't want to waste the experience, but I don't have the stomach for it right now. If defrosting her would make a mess, I will just bury her.
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She can be wrapped and fridged for 3 or 4 days, I have never froze/ defrosted for necropsy so can't say much other than there shouldn't be much degradation to the ligament/tendon and bone tissue. Internal organs would be most affected by the freeze/thaw cycle.
 
Would anyone be interested in an Ameraucana roo? I have 5 extra ones that are too special to free range without at least offering them to my friends. They are all black, split for lavender, and silkied. If you put these with black hens, all the resulting chicks will look like normal blacks, but they will all carry the silkied gene and half will carry the lavender gene.

I think they would also make good pets. The silkied gene was not derived from crossing them to silkies, but they have much of the personality of silkie bantams. They are not weatherproof and can't fly very high to roost.
 

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