Sex link broilers...and why?

[nicalandia]

well my friends, some time ago I had a sex link project for production type layers, why? for production cost savings, but I wanted a 100% sexable chicks from hatch(even with wet down) I wanted a NO mistake sex link trait...I started with what I have close at hand, production type leghorn females and native Araucana rooster, the sex link trait(or polygenic traits to be more precise..

)had to be precise and acurate so the rooster had to be a FibroMelanotic necked neck all black eb gold base black and id+ ....the results?....the females had very dark skin and the boys didn´t......

BINGO something I could work with, and since the leghorn layed white shelled eggs if you candle them after 12 days you could see that some of the embryos were darker than usual...
all things were doing fine till they got stolen...

ok to the sex link broilers and why??.. well for a small family run home grown broiler breeding program, in my case my market will be directed to the nicaraguan local people, this people pay good money for live home grown mutts, usualy 3 times more than a cornishX..why? they don´t think they taste good and are raise unnaturally..my broilers can´t be white feathered birds, because the local people when they see a big white bird they all say: ah.. its a broiler and move on to buy something more colorfull, as my broilers will be home bred they can not be expected to grow as fast as CornishX but will get close, and for that fact females will be even smaller, and will be culled at hatch, so an ALL cockerel grow out plan is necesary, I expect to sell a colorful live 12 weeks old cockerel at 8 pounds.....

thats my plan, but my current project is not like that..my current porject uses a super large broiler Sire roosters over a good layer RIR female, the chicks are not sexable, but will show some red coloring on their feathers,(enough to convince their future owners they are NOT broilers...

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I kow the idea of an sex link broiler is an interesting idea, and may work for some niches, but its alot of work, to find a productive breed with those genes(FM,eb,gold all black,id+, necked neck) and then introduce them to the SIRE line, make enough breedings to find that Productive SIRE its lots of work...

you may ask your self? why not colored rangers?...well we dont have them here...

well thank for your time my friends, I hope I didn´t let all of you down with my guessing games..

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Cool. Are you NicaMarvin from the-coop? The idea of a sexlinked broiler is a good idea since the males grow faster and all. I know up here there is a market for colored chickens beause some people dont like the huge white chickens.

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Sounds very interesting!

 

[Krys109uk]

That sounds really good. All fits into place. How amazing that you can see the females as darker in the white shelled eggs.

 

[nicalandia]

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why yes Moo my friend...!!!

yes people here don´t like white chickens at all, they think they are not natural, check this out, for a dressed 4 pound white broiler they pay 75 cordobas, but for a 4 pound live colored hen they pay 130 and in christmas
the price is 160, because here in nicaragua whe don´t have christmas turkey in christmas eve, we have hen´s or rooster´s soup...

so on that basis I think a older(12weeks) colored broiler type is a must, and since bringing such a big chicken in short order its cheaper I will sell them at a more fair price than what they pay for a small colored bird..

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yes friend I was shocked to, but that was for leghorns eggs, they are white and very thin, and a very bright light goes right through the shell and in light skin colored chicks...........as for broilers? well I plan on using production type RIR, as they show the most sexual dimorphism out of the hens I have at hand, and you know how hard is to candle brown shell eggs.....