Sumatra Thread!

[championsumatra]

I only have large fowl.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I started out with a splash rooster and a light blue hen a black and a very even color blue hen. don't worry you will one day breed out a splash.

oh yes, they've made tons of them, it's just always on eggs I have sold out of my line, just havent had the luck on ones I kept back for my breeding program here. Got a bunch of them now so it wont be long, will make them this spring. Cant wait for the duns to get here from FMP now to get started on them and platinum.

also have them breeding out in a number of other colors, but still in project phase on them

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

We had a similar thing with our duns this year. We bred 2 duns together and had some blacks in the pen too. Loads of duns and blacks (more dun than black) and got 2 khaki chicks which were weak and died within the first few days. I figure I'll wait until he grows up some before I post a pic of the khaki cockerel I got from the trader.

That's been my recent luck too Michael,

over the past several years, when I did manage to get one out of mine that I kept back. I always seemed to loose it. Dont help having 400-500 chicks growing out I guess, hard to keep up with them one by one that way. Next year I'm setting up a brooder only for sumatras though, especially with the duns. That way I can keep a better eye on them. Got 8 of them now 3 x 8 foot, but I always end up with too many chicks..haha wouldnt hurt to slow it down a bit I guess..... naa

 

[ramirezframing]

sounds like my dad and me. we always do ours together, this year they ended up at my parents house. My dad couldn't believe when he would lose one that seemed in great shape. Than I would point out something he missed or the fact that it was now a pancake, so it was on the bottom of a dog pile. Which drove him up a wall, since they had plenty of heat. I ended up with more duns than blacks this year also.

on a side step why would as hen not produce a fertile egg no matter what roo she is with?

 

[zach N houdan]

on of my pairs of bantam sumatras

 

[championsumatra]

I have 19 sumatras right now but I will only be keeping 5 at the end.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

sounds like my dad and me. we always do ours together, this year they ended up at my parents house. My dad couldn't believe when he would lose one that seemed in great shape. Than I would point out something he missed or the fact that it was now a pancake, so it was on the bottom of a dog pile. Which drove him up a wall, since they had plenty of heat. I ended up with more duns than blacks this year also.

on a side step why would as hen not produce a fertile egg no matter what roo she is with?

on the hens thing, sometimes, regardless of the breed you will get sterile hens. I've run into that from time to time over the years. You know good and well you have a solid rooster in , but she still only throws sterile eggs. If you have tried multiple roos on her, it's her then. More than likely just sterile

 

[ramirezframing]

oo didn't know a hen could be, I knew they could reject sperm from a roo they don't like but didn't know they could be sterile. Go figure, just my luck

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

oo didn't know a hen could be, I knew they could reject sperm from a roo they don't like but didn't know they could be sterile. Go figure, just my luck

If a hen is laying eggs, she is not "sterile", by definition. There may be something else in her anatomy, or in her reproductive tract that does not allow for the sperm to reach the yolk for fertilization to take place, but it's not sterility.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

haha yes techincally, that's just what I call it, southern thing I guess. I call the lack of egg production totally (real sterility) barren.

But yes, basically for some reason she is not excepting the sperm into her productive cycle and producing fertile eggs, so for whatever techincal reason it is, she's a "sterile" hen, just meaning she will not produce fertile eggs when mated.