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Self-Blue Count update.
While not an exact tally, the Self-Blue count to date is right around 25-30 birds. Last week produced 5 and this week I hatched 2, so the numbers are getting closer to my goal of 50, but I don't think I'll make it. I've stopped saving eggs from all but one pullet and I am breeding the f2 SB male (white feet) that I kept to her. She has excellent type, and yellow legs. While I don't expect any yellow legged chicks from this mating, they will at least carry the genes, so when bred to a yellow legged f4 SB male, I should see a good number of yellow legs from that, assuming that this f2 SB x f3 split breeding produces the kind of type that I am hoping it will.
I pullet the 8 oldest chicks out of a group pen last night and separated them by ckls and pullets. 5 cockerels, 3 pullets. Once ckl and one pullet (pen 1) have white feet. All the others have bright yellow feet! White feet on the Pen 1 chicks is what I expected (Ref: previous posts). I'll try to take a few pics. They aren't much to look at yet. Also as I've experienced before, the males are extremely slow feathering and have pin feathers on their shoulders and backs. Pullets are fast feathering. So far the color looks pretty good. Stay tuned.
While not an exact tally, the Self-Blue count to date is right around 25-30 birds. Last week produced 5 and this week I hatched 2, so the numbers are getting closer to my goal of 50, but I don't think I'll make it. I've stopped saving eggs from all but one pullet and I am breeding the f2 SB male (white feet) that I kept to her. She has excellent type, and yellow legs. While I don't expect any yellow legged chicks from this mating, they will at least carry the genes, so when bred to a yellow legged f4 SB male, I should see a good number of yellow legs from that, assuming that this f2 SB x f3 split breeding produces the kind of type that I am hoping it will.
I pullet the 8 oldest chicks out of a group pen last night and separated them by ckls and pullets. 5 cockerels, 3 pullets. Once ckl and one pullet (pen 1) have white feet. All the others have bright yellow feet! White feet on the Pen 1 chicks is what I expected (Ref: previous posts). I'll try to take a few pics. They aren't much to look at yet. Also as I've experienced before, the males are extremely slow feathering and have pin feathers on their shoulders and backs. Pullets are fast feathering. So far the color looks pretty good. Stay tuned.
