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[Ravynscroft]

I should be having a pullet or two laying soon, so I was just wondering.....
Yes, and I brought the article home. Tons of pics, from their massive brooders with hundreds of poults to a little old Italian lady, holding a turkey that's half her size! Lol. It says for turkey orders, choose from white, Bourbon Red, heritage or wild turkey. So you would go with heritage?

Hatching pullet eggs comes down to personal preferences... if you understand the difficulties and want to try, then go for it...

Have you gone to the sex-link information thread?  There's some real nice charts in the first post.  I love that thread!  I breed sex links from red EE roo x Dominique and SLW.  Beautiful hens it does produce!!

I'd rather hatch a pullet egg than an egg from an older hen at the end of her laying life.  Never had luck with the latter!

New thread?  We said they said???

Walnut, your birds are absolutely gorgeous!  I'm LOVING that Columbian pattern.  Those just might produce some nice sex links, except for the underlying crossing that made them!  

I have one little pullet who likes to spar with her 2 hatch mate cockrels at the same time.  The 3 of them were going at it for a good half hour yesterday.  If I wasn't convinced that she was a BSL, I'd be worried about her gender issues.   Hmmmm.... perhaps she does have gender issues!!!  She's a feisty one.  Perhaps I SHOULD name her Raven.  Normal???  I think I saw that.  It's a setting on my washer.

Ah, the light bulb goes off when I read your post here.  If you breed the second generation of sex links, you will not get sex links.  It has to be breeding from first generation, generally with a dark male over a light female, with specific gene patterns that affect feathering.  Read that sex linked information thread.  

And so she blows yet an other hole in the "they said" endless drivvel litany of truths.

I see a trend of troublemaking pullets named Raven...

Actually, I put no gender guesses weighed by how they are willing to chest bump... most of my pullets were the biggest chest bumpers... and my hens rule their flocks, they will smack down a younger cockerel acting hormonal faster than any of my roos will... the roos only intervene if the cockerels won't back down to the girls...

Here is my EE hen I hatched pullet eggs from...

The rooster she was with...

And this is their daughter who is now bigger than her mom... this was taken just as she started laying...

And her brother...

Not only were these from pullet eggs, but they were 2 of the 4 from my very first hatch... I set 4 eggs and all 4 hatched... the other 2 were all red cockerels and I gave them to a friend when they were still young...

 

[Ren2014]

Ug oh, the little guy has a problem with the leg that was wrapped in membrane. The toes are curling in length wise and he's not putting weight on it. It doesn't appear to be spraddle leg. As soon as I can get a picture I will post.

 

[meganhundley]

Dead serious... send it to me... I told him last night about your issues, he's chomping at the bit to give her what for...

It's Oink Inc Heritage, she raises pigs, too.

 

[Ren2014]

Ug oh, the little guy has a problem with the leg that was wrapped in membrane. The toes are curling in length wise and he's not putting weight on it. It doesn't appear to be spraddle leg. As soon as I can get a picture I will post.

I just found the issue on the chicken chick's web page. Here are pictures she has posted. Looks like I will be doing some splinting as soon as the other two eggs hatch.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Ug oh, the little guy has a problem with the leg that was wrapped in membrane.  The toes are curling in length wise and he's not putting weight on it. It doesn't appear to be spraddle leg. As soon as I can get a picture I will post.

Curled toes, make a boot for it... painters tape works really well... stick foot flat on one piece and put a second piece over top making sure all toes are spread out properly... I don't have a pic, but someone here does...

It's Oink Inc Heritage, she raises pigs, too.

Got it, thanks!

 

[Ren2014]

So basically, it doesn't really make sense what they wrote, since bourbon red is a type of heritage. I'd like something with white meat (I think most of the fam likes white). And to ask a completely naive question, is the bird based on a price per pound? I think it would be really neat to have a fresh turkey that was raised and killed humanely for thanksgiving.
Congrats on the baby!! Did only 3 eggs make it to lockdown? Shipped eggs are really hard! What kind of incubator do you have? You can drop the temps down. Mine usually drops a little just from all the humidity at hatch time. But I keep it around 99.5. I'm to worried about messing with it, while they are hatching.
My humidity spikes up to 90%+ when a couple are hatching together. I take a paper towel and open the bator quick to wipe down the condensation while I'm pulling out egg shells.

Yes, only 3 eggs made it to lock down I have a Little Giant 9300. Good to hear you wipe down the condensation. That's what I started doing but am so worried for the two that haven't hatched and what I'm going to do to them. One was active and chirping last night but nothing today. Not even a pip.

It is hard to say how high will kill them since it is a combination of heat and humidity--Definitely in the 90% plus range though. 84% is not good usually either. They will be sluggish because of the low O2 at that level. Usually if the humidity starts at 65% it will not go much above 75% during hatching. Of course incubators do vary in this.

My incubator humidity reading doesn't match the two hygrometers that I have at egg level. LG 9300 first timer

 

[lazy gardener]

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For some reason, I can't get any other pics to post well, but if you open this up, the sex link is the black one towards the back of the pic. The big buff chicken in the front center is my Pioneer. She's a great layer, and has made some awesome pullets.

 

[meganhundley]

Curled toes, make a boot for it... painters tape works really well... stick foot flat on one piece and put a second piece over top making sure all toes are spread out properly... I don't have a pic, but someone here does...
Got it, thanks!

Keep me posted on what's said, this should be good, lol

 

[Ravynscroft]

I just found the issue on the chicken chick's web page. Here are pictures she has posted. Looks like I will be doing some splinting as soon as the other two eggs hatch.

If done right away, I don't believe splints are necessary...

Keep me posted on what's said, this should be good, lol

Will do!

 

[Ren2014]

If done right away, I don't believe splints are necessary...

What do I need to do right away? Her one toe is curling under making it look like there's an extra toe.