Show Off Your Games!

[centrarchid]

Problem I run into with brooder reared chicks is that when it gets cold and you have to many, they have a tendency to pile crushing those on bottom, particularly if they are in a nest or box of some sort. To prevent that make so groups less than 20 or so. Getting them to roost up helps a lot..

 

[miksmity]

What I do is that I have them with 3 brooding hens and they sit on 10 each and then I have 2 heat lamps and their brooding coop is elivated 3 ft off the ground and in a corner with insulated walls and a vent
So far I haven't lost any to the cold in 5 years
I hatch every 2 months and brood

 

[miksmity]

Usually I sit have to get a hen broody
I keep hens that automatically brood by them selves and then I put chicks with them and they accept them but it takes a couple days but only introduce like 7 at a time or the hens will get stressed with all the new babies and chirping
But it's fun to watch 3 hens walk around the property with 83 chicks and watching them protect them from rooster, other hens, and preditors( mostly our barn cats)

 

[JShubin]

Usually I sit have to get a hen broody
I keep hens that automatically brood by them selves and then I put chicks with them and they accept them but it takes a couple days but only introduce like 7 at a time or the hens will get stressed with all the new babies and chirping
But it's fun to watch 3 hens walk around the property with 83 chicks and watching them protect them from rooster, other hens, and preditors( mostly our barn cats)

In my experience mother game hens will not tolerate other mother hens or their chicks. I have seen mothers fight to the death and mutilate an entire clutch of chicks that are not their own. I have also had hens steal chicks from a lesser mother hen (chicks less than a week old).

I always seperate mother hens, unless there is plenty of room, like free range setup, but even then I make sure I have food and water spread out as to avoid confrontation.

I typically only let a hen have 4-8 chicks or else they loose track of them and they start disappearing. For some reason mine always end up with 4... I think its the magical number for survival.

 

[centrarchid]

Free-range I get anywhere from zero to 14 to survive through weaning with average about 6. Having hens in high density or otherwise close together does not work well for chicks. I make it a point to have hens with chicks at least 25 feet apart by night fall.

 

[centrarchid]

Anybody got pictures of Pumkin Hulseys at hatch. I am trying to work out a genetic problem with some of my birds in one of my lines. Some adults look kinda like Pumpkin Husleys except for details in the flight feathers, especially tail. Genetic mechanism behind pumpkin color may or may not be the same. To make proper comparison I need to know chick down and adult hen coloration to discern different loci. I will post pictures of chicks in project so far. Some interesting is popping out I never noticed before which may the result of the inbreeding taking place in the overall linebreeding effort.

 

[sdm111]

Find golden hulsey farms. Great people and can answer any question u have. They're a member here. And the finest hulseys I've ever seen!

 

[centrarchid]

I can rule those out based on cock coloration alone. Hens also outside range mine exhibit. I will still need to see what some are calling real Pumpkin Hulseys.

 

[Md Whitehackle]

14 high noon hatch/ leiper chicks I just got today from the man how made this blood Gary cooper. Gary is as first class breeder and a first class gentlemen. if his fowl are like there breeder they will be some top shelf fowl. I ordered 1 dozen chicks 6 leiper 6 high noons and he sent me 14 chicks not to mention he is a nice guy to deal with and he knows his birds and he can tell you there make up back to the first bird. if your looking for game fowl tack a look at high noon hatch game farm.

 

[centrarchid]

Here is a photograph of a brood where fourteen of 21 hatched from and by a pullet bred back to father as part of an experiment. Darn pullets early in season seem to lay too many eggs before incubation begins. If she would have stopped at 14 egg laid she probably would have hatched almost as many.

Three light colored chicks are homozygous for unkown allele of interest. Based number of adult female phenotypes and now variations in dorsal stripe another locus is also at play that interacts with the first allele.