Possible Guinea Eggs in "Quail" Batch?

[subhanalah]

I have only bought one click from the feedstore, now I'm hatching all my new ones lol.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Congrats on the sale of all the chicks. You are about even tho in chicken math right ??? sold 25 you hatched and brought/bought about that many from the stores back home with you. Sill question I know but were any of the chicks pure bred or just mutts?? Also if you don't mind me asking what do chicks go for at one of these chicken swaps?? We have no such thing up here. I have been to runnings (our version of TSC) 3 times in the past couple weeks and managed to stay out of the baby chick section. Will power , I name thee Twisted. Also have no place to keeps chicks at the moment.

will power? who is that? a cartoon i bet. most of my chicks were mutts from 2 full bloods. i had a few full that went for 10 dollars but the mutts i let go for 5.seemed like a lot of roosters this go around. i am still getting babies. wednesday i will get bantam phoenix and seremas mom is about the same, thank you for asking. they wont let her walk and she thinks she is coming home tomorrow. her blood is like water now. and they wont transfuse. her count is very low.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

sold 25 bought 26. so far.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Lockdown in just a couple of days, lol. Patience, granny! I can't blame you, though. I wanna crack 'em out of those eggs myself!

define the word patience, i always thought it meant hurry up and wait.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

whats better, black or blue seramas??? if i get the blue(a color im not crazy about) and breed them, wont i get black and white?

 

[Cheyen]

I'm not sure about seramas.I think the colors you get depend on the breed. For instance, the blue gene in orpingtons is an incomplete dominance. That means if I bred a blue and a blue, I'd get 25% splash chicks, 50% blue chicks, and 25% black chicks. But if I bred a black and a splash, 100% of the chicks would be blue! It might not be that way for seramas.

I can try and find a color chart for you.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

thats too confusing i just need someone to tell me what to get. lol

 

[Cheyen]

Granny, I was wrong. Looks like color genetics is the same for every bird! Here's a visual:



If you want the easiest color to breed, black is the way to go. Black+black= black
But if you want the fancier blue, you'll need a black and a splash, and you'd have to keep replacing the f1 generation because their kids wouldn't make 100% blue babies.

 

[subhanalah]

Cheyenne, what's the lighter colored circle mean when combining the splash and splash? Is that a lethal gene or a different variant?

 

[Cheyen]

That's just a different variant. It's not unique to splash/splash pairings, either. It's just the negative washing out effect you get from over-breeding one line of color. Basically, the more you breed it, the lighter/duller that color will get.