Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

I am not sure if that is a spot on it's head or just a reflection off the incubator from my flashlight.

I really do not see one when I look at it. BUT I am sure not going say there is one either.

I did not know they had a recessive white. That by itself could have some inherent weakness couldn't it? I know in a bb DD rr turkey that is double recessive black and double recessive red with a double dominant slate gene you can get a eye condition that comes in on the recessives and is expressed with the double slate.

I Would guess there could easily be genetic defects that come in on those allele also,

 

[duluthralphie]

Ivie it is just a Cream Legbar.


You have to resist the urge to hold a little chick.

By not formed I mean it looks to be open where the yolk sac should be.
It is moving around. but looking weak. I could move it to another hatcher and leave it by itself, but sometimes the other chicks can stimulate the weal ones too.

 

[Rhetts]

Well, if anything good can come from this it already has by you learning some more genetics about your birds.

 

[jerryse]

Well, if anything good can come from this it already has by you learning some more genetics about your birds.

You now know that your rooster and 1 hen carry recessive white .

 

[duluthralphie]

One of my roosters and one of my hens!! I have no idea which one laid the egg, or mated with the hen.

I had one rooster and 2 hens last year, these are kids of theirs. I am using the old rooster and one of the old hens.


I have them all in one coop and run together.


This year I have 7 hens and 2 roosters, I started with 10 hens and 2 rooster in the coop. BUT I decided to take a three hens out as I did not like their looks. They are now layers.

 

[KlopKlop]

All this hatching talk... i am thinking that I am going to set up my LG this coming week and see if i can get the temps to settle where they need to be. then if we do in fact get a warm up maybe try and see if i can pen off Buck and betty white and maybe my dark cornish to get a Buckeye Cornish cross. I am planning on getting some birds from Hoovers in march so if I plan right i could try to hatch some of my own for the same time.

 

[Cluckies]

One of my roosters and one of my hens!! I have no idea which one laid the egg, or mated with the hen.

I had one rooster and 2 hens last year, these are kids of theirs. I am using the old rooster and one of the old hens.


I have them all in one coop and run together.


This year I have 7 hens and 2 roosters, I started with 10 hens and 2 rooster in the coop. BUT I decided to take a three hens out as I did not like their looks. They are now layers.

Yeah, it would be really hard to ferret out which rooster and which hen it is

Unless you separate the roosters and give them their own hens, then whittle it down. if you don't see anymore of these, you could trade a hen between them. if you see more of these you could trade out a hen, and so on, and so on. It would be a very long process to try and figure out which ones carry the gene, wouldn't it?

 

[duluthralphie]

Yeah, it would be really hard to ferret out which rooster and which hen it is

Unless you separate the roosters and give them their own hens, then whittle it down. if you don't see anymore of these, you could trade a hen between them. if you see more of these you could trade out a hen, and so on, and so on. It would be a very long process to try and figure out which ones carry the gene, wouldn't it?

It would be a terrible chore. BUT I do know I am going to cross my fingers to get a couple more of these. I did not know there was such a thing as a white Cream Legbar! If I could get a hen and rooster in white, I would be into some major league chicken incest here next year.


I do know either my old hen or old rooster has to carry the white, so I am 50/50 there now to figure out which kid it is.

 

[KlopKlop]

It would be a terrible chore. BUT I do know I am going to cross my fingers to get a couple more of these. I did not know there was such a thing as a white Cream Legbar! If I could get a hen and rooster in white, I would be into some major league chicken incest here next year.

If you started with only one rooster, doesn't that mean that rooster must be carrying the recessive white gene?

 

[duluthralphie]

If you started with only one rooster, doesn't that mean that rooster must be carrying the recessive white gene?

Or the hen or the hen that died and passed it on to one of her offspring.


Actually I would think I could have a couple with it. If you Punnet Square it. 25% of the offspring should carry it. So 2 of last years hatch should have it. I am breeding 7 of last years hatch, plus one of the parents (or the dead one) have had it.


I would think I should get more, those two have bred once, That is good for 2-3 weeks. I think 25% of those eggs should be white...

maybe.....lol