Sumatra Thread!

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

umm it is has nothing to do with my birds health. my birds are very healthy. they are in good shape for sumatras. I found out that the temp on my incubator was at 98 instead of 99 when I last checked it. that is too low for them to hatch well. I am sorry but it has nothing to do with their health. because if you look at my sumatra's in the photos they are not sick or unhealthy looking. sure I know you would think that because of the hatch rate that it must be my birds but that is not the truth.

I am sorry you misunderstood my post. I was not saying your birds are in poor health.
I am suggesting that you may want to improve the fertility rate of the eggs before offering
at those prices. I know I would be very upset to not get many chicks from the hatch. I am
sure you take care of your birds just fine. You may need fewer hens per roo to get good
hatch rates or if you think it is incubator temps then try again at different temp so
you can post better rates. Good luck

 

[stonykill]

umm it is has nothing to do with my birds health. my birds are very healthy. they are in good shape for sumatras. I found out that the temp on my incubator was at 98 instead of 99 when I last checked it. that is too low for them to hatch well. I am sorry but it has nothing to do with their health. because if you look at my sumatra's in the photos they are not sick or unhealthy looking. sure I know you would think that because of the hatch rate that it must be my birds but that is not the truth.

not really. Just takes a tad longer.

 

[troyer]

I think that it is possible to get blue out of black x black mating, especially in sumatras. Last summer I bred a black sumatra rooster to a splash hen and got two types of blue out of that cross, some of them were a darker blue and others were lighter blue with black feathers mixed in at random among the blue, the feathers that were mixed in were certainly black and NOT dark blue. I checked them specifically because it caught my attention that they weren't all the same color. Sadly I don't have those any more, but I am suspicious that if I would have bred those blues together I might have been able to isolate the blue that I saw. These are mostly thoughts that I'm having and in my limited experience I can't state it as fact. I might still be able to get the hen back and breed her again to see if I can get that gene to work like that. Again, I don't have enough experience myself, to state these things as fact, but would need to do more breeding to find out.

 

[ramirezframing]

the books I am refering to were written well before color photagraphy was invented. So I can only go by what they write, not what they looked like by pictures


I understand no colored pictures, I was hoping to see any picture at all. What do these books say as to the build of those sumatras back than and how they looked

someone, I think it was ChampionSumatra asked for a pic of my Blue laying Sumatra hen and her egg. I call her "Lil Blue" As she is tiny, blue and lays a blue egg. She is 6 years old now. Still an egg laying and egg hiding fool. She is very feral and camera shy so I got these through the living room window. Here is lil blue and her rooster.




and the 3 colors of eggs I get daily. Well almost daily. Lil Blue lays about 5 days a week.

the light reflecting off of alters the color of the blue egg some. It looks more olive in the pic but is a blue egg for sure.

it was me who asked for these pictures, thanks for posting them

 

[raph]

So any way how are your chicken people?
Mine are good I'm hoping to get more eggs as we bought some layers mash, when my warren see's layers mash she turns in to the terminator, she will do anything for layers mash.

 

[ramirezframing]

totally forgot I had an extra young dun rooster (in a grow out pen). As I don't see him very often, He keeps hiding on a old landing board at the top of the pen under the top netting. The only reason I seen him this time is because his tail was sticking out over the side of the board and he moved it. I hate when I forget about a extra bird!

 

[chickletteSarge]

 totally forgot I had an extra young dun rooster (in a grow out pen). As I don't see him very often, He keeps hiding on a old landing board at the top of the pen under the top netting. The only reason I seen him this time is because his tail was sticking out over the side of the board and he moved it. I hate when I forget about a extra bird!

pics or it didn't happen!!!

lol

 

[ramirezframing]

I'll have to try and remember that he's there and to have the camera, which don't happen often

 

[championsumatra]

that is ok coop scoop boogie I miss read the post.

 

[DuckLady]

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