Remember My Splash Orp Pullet Chick? Weeeellll....

[Mrs MIA]

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I concur.


Especially since I have a blue with "to die for" lacing from Velvet and Suede...

And no... you can't have her back.

 

[Yogiman]

It's blantly obvious that I'm no poultry expert but everthing I read says that it is the hen that establishes the sex in the chicks. Have you thought about having a heart to heart girlie talk with Velvet and Skye? Just a thought, ya know. Poor old Suede is doing his best, I'm sure.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Totally uneducated theory...feel free to jump in and correct me as needed.

I wonder if the gene for color is somehow related to the gene for gender... Perhaps it is more likely that a splash will be male.

How many people on BYC have splash Orpingtons? How many of those are males or females that they hatched themselves?

 

[gumpsgirl]

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No you don't! I have eggs coming in the spring, rememer?!?! NO QUITTING! Sorry about your splash though.

 

[herechickchick]

Come on Cyn one more hatch from your flock won't kill you.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, I've hatched splashes from my eggs, from Julie's, from Jim Cox's and from Christina's. ALL splashes I hatched, one from each group, were male. The eggs I send to other people produce splash pullets many times! Ask Purple Chicken and Cara and a few I cant recall, LOL. So I know my girls are producing splash girls, just not for ME.

 

[speckledhen]

I just cant do it anymore for awhile, Adam. I'm bushed...and very tired of buying chick starter this year. My flock is complete for the time being. Suede will have to make do with just one more lady in a few months. And flaws or not, Delilah may have to stay.
Tori, that was awesome, what your breeder friend said about the pullet you hatched from Suede and Velvet. It really made my day!

 

[Tuffoldhen]

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I've never gotten a Splash cockeral, all that I have ever hatched out were pullets....now, from someone elses lines I have one of each...but mine have all been pullets...

 

[MissPrissy]

My splash from Cyn's eggs is a pullet

 

[Mrs MIA]

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I hear ya on the chick starter. I'm going to have to stockpile it, because our local feed store doesn't even CARRY it after this month.

I'll just be happy when I don't have to make the rounds to see if their heat-lamps are still on or not.

But I DO want more eggs in the Spring, too...

I've decided to dedicate one of the new breeder pens to the Orps.

And you're welcome... I just had to tell you!