show quality speckled sussex ??

[Arielle]

THanks Don. Good to know. Don, why is a large female key to increaseing the weights??

One of the reasons weights interest me is that I have noticed small birds are difficult for me to dress. Width in the body cavity can solve that issue. ANd because it takes a bit of time, I would like to get a fair amount of meat for my effort. (Probably why I am liking the turkeys. lol)

THe buckeye project comes to mind. I don't know how many years, or how many birds DOn Schrider hatched to reach the 1# gain by 16 weeks.

 

[woodside]

Hello new to this forum (based in aberdeenshire, scotland) but just wondering if you could help me please. I've ended up with 1 chick it's friend died the other day. But I was wondering if anyone could help me sex the chick and if possible any advice on the quality of it. Although please don't be to mean. It's 6 weeks old.very sweet and my daughters pride and joy! On the first picture it's only around a day old with the go faster stripes

Thank you in advance

 

[snowbird]

THanks Don. Good to know. Don, why is a large female key to increaseing the weights??

One of the reasons weights interest me is that I have noticed small birds are difficult for me to dress. Width in the body cavity can solve that issue. ANd because it takes a bit of time, I would like to get a fair amount of meat for my effort. (Probably why I am liking the turkeys. lol)

THe buckeye project comes to mind. I don't know how many years, or how many birds DOn Schrider hatched to reach the 1# gain by 16 weeks.

To increase the weight on the fowl we first must have a good structure and type. There is no way we can put #7 on a little narrow body hatchery SS. Increase the size and the weight will follow. The female is the most important thing when setting up breeding pens and wanting SOP type large fowl.

 

[Arielle]

welcome to byc!! I can't critique so I won't try. But welcome.

Hello new to this forum (based in aberdeenshire, scotland) but just wondering if you could help me please. I've ended up with 1 chick it's friend died the other day. But I was wondering if anyone could help me sex the chick and if possible any advice on the quality of it. Although please don't be to mean. It's 6 weeks old.very sweet and my daughters pride and joy! On the first picture it's only around a day old with the go faster stripes







Thank you in advance

 

[woodside]

Thank you, I know not the best pictures but they don't stay still for long enough!

 

[math ace]

Hello new to this forum (based in aberdeenshire, scotland) but just wondering if you could help me please. I've ended up with 1 chick it's friend died the other day. But I was wondering if anyone could help me sex the chick and if possible any advice on the quality of it. Although please don't be to mean. It's 6 weeks old.very sweet and my daughters pride and joy! On the first picture it's only around a day old with the go faster stripes







Thank you in advance

WELCOME ABOARD....

I will take a guess here... I am leaning towards cockerel...
As far as color goes, it is way too early to tell anything. The chick is going to go through several molts and the chick color will change each time.
Look at how much the color changed from the first picture to the second. Your daughter is going to want to watch the white on the chest. When the bird finishes it juvenile molts, the white should be at the tips of each feather, not whole feather or part of the feather... just the tips should be spotted with a white spangle.

 

[math ace]

THanks Don. Good to know. Don, why is a large female key to increaseing the weights??

Bigger size has to come into the picture somewhere...

If you take a 30% undersized roo and mate it to a 30% undersized hen, nothing will change.
If you take a 30% undersized roo and mate it to an on-target or slightly undersized hen, then some of the offspring will gain size.
If you take a 30% undersized roo and mate it to a heavy hen, then MORE of the offspring will gain size. Some will still be small, but those that gain size will gain more.

I've seen this already with my marans. I started with an oversized male and undersized hens. The young were BIG, OK, or small. I had the full range. Very few were as big as daddy, but most were bigger than their moms. I kept only the biggest. I mated the bigger daughters back to the oversized male and produced some tanks for hens.

Of the sons, I kept a male that lost several faults the daddy had. The downside was that he weighed in at the low end of the SOP... I mated him to those "tanks" of hens... Lordy, I have some big chicks...

 

[math ace]

Law of Averages...

 

[snowbird]

Law of Averages...

Lisa, I believe in all Show type fowl in the breeding of them is all averages.

It might be time to go over the type and body of the SS again as it seem there are a few new SS people here. We can do it with pictures or just what to look for in selecting fowl.

 

[cracrzy4chicks]

Lisa, I believe in all Show type fowl in the breeding of them is all averages.

It might be time to go over the type and body of the SS again as it seem there are a few new SS people here. We can do it with pictures or just what to look for in selecting fowl.

That would be awesome, I'm one of the new people ! I don't now about anyone else here, but I'm a " show me " type of person. Don't know why

, my brain digests descriptions with pictures much better