Shark snipers Wine dots NEW HATCHES and puppies 1/24/2011 update

[sonew123]

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I'll try and help

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

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My argument would be for the barred rock or "plymouth barred rock" it's an older, dual purpose heavier breed of chicken that is good for meat and lays good sized eggs on a consistant basis.

Yah, deferring the rest of the info to Nat.

 

[Phage]

Thanks Nat, paradise and lovins that is wonderful.
I was thinking RJF as well for the standard as there are so many varieties. Most "chicken science" not on meat producers is done using leghorns.
And paradise -the grant is a joint NIH-NIFA adventure and has to have elements that interest both agencies. I have the NIH covered, just trying to figure out what useful thing could be done for the NIFA part.

I am sure I will have a heap of more Qs

 

[sonew123]

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ask away

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

Brought in "little yellow" tonight. The cochins are gone her heat strategy used to be to bury herself between the cochins. It's going to be 38 here tonight, a little to cold for my runt. Here's my 1 pound 15 week old chicken hiding in my coat.

 

[sonew123]

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oh how PATHETIC! LOL Id do the same haha

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

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oh how PATHETIC! LOL Id do the same haha

Cant help it, the little girl is tenacious!! Everything tells me she shouldnt have lived and short of some polyvisol once in a while she is treated like all of the others. Nat I am still going to take that silkie chick for her. She'll be SO lonely this winter. She cries when I seperate her from the big girls.

 

[seminolewind]

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Yea, rather than buy a new bator, I am really happy with it otherwise. I've never had breech babies before this bator.

Phage, you too? I didn't realize that there were more that have had this problem .

Yes it is has been a problem with chickens and peas for myself and a friend of mine who is using one. The bators are meant to be good for pea eggs, being on their sides, but it definitely produces more breech. He noticed a higher breech rate than with a sportsman. I really only saw it was such a problem when I was also using a hand tipped brinsea, and that produced less breaches.

I have to say though, the "turn on and walk away" ease of use is amazing. I left mine on when I went to Europe. Also I have had some truly superb hatch rates in the r-com (hoppy and onthespots eggs and some peafowl eggs). The very good hatch rates for eggs that start to develop I am sure makes up for the odd breech.
Still a total r-com fan.

Turned it on and went to Europe??? I don't think I could ever do that-I must stare at the eggs every day!

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

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Yes it is has been a problem with chickens and peas for myself and a friend of mine who is using one. The bators are meant to be good for pea eggs, being on their sides, but it definitely produces more breech. He noticed a higher breech rate than with a sportsman. I really only saw it was such a problem when I was also using a hand tipped brinsea, and that produced less breaches.

I have to say though, the "turn on and walk away" ease of use is amazing. I left mine on when I went to Europe. Also I have had some truly superb hatch rates in the r-com (hoppy and onthespots eggs and some peafowl eggs). The very good hatch rates for eggs that start to develop I am sure makes up for the odd breech.
Still a total r-com fan.

Turned it on and went to Europe??? I don't think I could ever do that-I must stare at the eggs every day!

LOL I was thinking that, but I'm a bator pug nose...

 

[seminolewind]

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Oh yes to both big hobby(used to be into pigeons- not racers though) and (small)possibility of the lost one being worth lots. Sometimes a bought racer will escape and not rehome to right location, or bird is from a particular bloodline, so even if it "homed wrong"...... not so uncommon for bird from particular lines to sell 500-2K. I've heard of a bird worth upwards of 1K rehoming to a chicken coop and hanging out there for a week until the coop owners call the number on the leg band..

another possibility is the local lofts are for another breed bred for tumbling and rolling in the air- there are a LOT of fanciers of this kind and many build elaborate setups for them because they need a fair amount of training and keeping groups separate. They don't get same prices as racers but they 'get lost' fairly often. If the birds have a lot of white or seem uncommonly colored, those are a good bet or you also happen to see flocks flying around a yard in a tight group.

Often I see these groups go flying round and round. I like watching. The two are not unusual colored, but do have leg bands, one has a red one. Maybe I'll catch one and see if it has a number on it. I have not seen the rolling ones here. Elaborate setups? Yes, indeed.