Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[bt2000]

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Maybe we're all "gluttons for punishment" for choosing to work with Delawares.. or could we be just a little mentally unstable??..

 

[kstaven]

We just like a challenge!!!

 

[bt2000]

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It's the voices, really.. it's the voices..

Anyways.. back on topic.

Kathy, if you do note any differences in chick phenotype, that might be able to be used as a predictor to the outcomes of future breeding and genetics. If any can be noted that is.

 

[kstaven]

You hear them too?

 

[bt2000]

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OMG.. there goes one keyboard... so much for that coke.

 

[kstaven]

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It's the voices, really.. it's the voices..

Anyways.. back on topic.

Kathy, if you do note any differences in chick phenotype, that might be able to be used as a predictor to the outcomes of future breeding and genetics. If any can be noted that is.

Technically I would think it will be the F2 test breedings where the real visible signs and noteworthy points will be obvious.

 

[kathyinmo]

I could take weekly pictures of the F1 chicks I have, though I don't really see anything of significance in the older ones. I will begin hatching F2s soon, and will take weekly pictures of them.

 

[bt2000]

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Agreed for the most part, but I have read that amount/size/configuration of "patches" ie: on the head and such can be an indicator of things. that's only in the "fuzzy stage", once feathering begins then that difference won't be noted.

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example being, although not what Kathy is going to see. I'm pretty sure now I can tell what chicks are going to turn out to be dark in the tail and which are not reasonably on chick down. My lighter ones were almost "white", where as the more yellow ones turned out darker. Again I haven't bred to test that theory, just going off what I've been able to note from the ones that I'm working with.

 

[kstaven]

If you have subtle differences that seem to be pointing to an outcome it is always worth noting. Even when it doesn't work out you may find down the road that subtle difference you thought meant X now proves out to be an indicator of Y.

 

[bt2000]

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my thoughts exactly