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Nice pics there Mrs. Kathy
Ok on the feather sexing deal, I'll do my best to explain how/why or why not is does/nt work in laymans terms more or less.
In order for this sexing method to work you have to know which of the parents were a fast featherer or slow featherer as it is a sex linkable and breed type trait.
So if you have a fast feathering male and breed him to a slow feathering female the female offspring of that cross will be fast feathering and the males will be slow feathering or vice versa as the male parent send their genes to female offspring and female parent send theirs to the male offspring in the wide world of bird genetics.
Theres a whole topic on tadkersons sex link thread on this ( I wish they'd left that alone where it was as a sticky so people would'nt have to search around for it but...anyway there's a little more detail ther about it in the thread.
I guess what Im trying to point out then is, if you don't know the feather growth of the parent stock then you'll only still have a 50/50 chance of guessing which is which by this method.
There I'm sure I missed something but if I did somebody will surely chime in and finish it up or correct me but that's my take and understanding on it, anyway. I do know for a fact it does'nt work on Barred Rocks, atleast the way the lady at the feed store did it about 3 years ago, if she did it that way to everybody that asked her for pullets then she made a small killing off that coup full of Barred Rock roosters I grant you. Oh joy, I love the learning lessons in life. LOL
catdaddy
PS those baby dells look like they are set and good to go, love the pics, speckledhen. I'm waiting impatiently for my batch I. will be recieving from my brother(biomistake) here soon, well as soon as I get his tiller fixed and he can plan a trip to come down and get it so I guess I better get busy and getter done by around hatching time, HUH?
