The "Ask Anything" to Nicalandia Thread

[3KillerBs]

High 80s to low 100s, late May-eaely September

*nods* 95F is my summer norm from June through mid-September so that's within the range I need to consider.

They have a different mottling mutation which is allelic to the other mottling mutations found. There are several, some have been genetically sequenced, most remain in obscurity. The difference between exchequer Leghorns and Ancona is just that

Exchequer Leghorn vs Ancona
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How interesting.

Both lovely and quite different.

 

[I Like Turkeys]

@nicalandia
apologies if this is super late, but do you know of anything in particular that attributes to, or causes hens to grow spurs?
I just purchased 3 mottled houdans, and though I haven’t thoroughly checked them all, 2/3 seem have small spurs at this point. At least one definitely has spurs.

I ramble too much, but what i’m trying to ask is: should I expect their female offspring to have spurs as well? I assume it’s genetic, because 2/3 seem to have them, but do you know if it’s dominant or recessive for hens to grow spurs?

 

[drangle]

can you breed crooked toes out of a line? what the odds of having straight toes from a breeding pair with crooked toes?


Background, I had 6 legbars, 5 males. 1 female. they all have crooked toes to some degree. I have kept back the 2 best males for breeding,22 weeks old (1 crele, 1 cream) the female (cream with too much red) has a crooked toe and the males have slightly crooked toes. otherwise, they seem to be healthy birds.


I also have a single female chick from a breeder(I think she will be. a nicely colored cream), a single hatch from 22 shipped eggs. her toes are straight so far (10 weeks old)

I want to breed to the SOP. What should I expect and what would you recommend I do? I prefer the crele color, but cream seems to have more of a market. At this point, I would rather breed for body than color.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

can you breed crooked toes out of a line? what the odds of having straight toes from a breeding pair with crooked toes?


Background, I had 6 legbars, 5 males. 1 female. they all have crooked toes to some degree. I have kept back the 2 best males for breeding,22 weeks old (1 crele, 1 cream) the female (cream with too much red) has a crooked toe and the males have slightly crooked toes. otherwise, they seem to be healthy birds.


I also have a single female chick from a breeder(I think she will be. a nicely colored cream), a single hatch from 22 shipped eggs. her toes are straight so far (10 weeks old)

I want to breed to the SOP. What should I expect and what would you recommend I do? I prefer the crele color, but cr3eam seems to have more of a market. At this point, I would rather breed for body than color.

I have a hen with crooked toes. I have no idea what happened to make her foot the way it was, but as a chick she couldn't walk on one foot well and as she got older,the weight drove her down until the bones broke to support her. You wouldn't know now watching her move that anything was ever wrong. Of the 3 daughters and 4 sons I've hatched so far, none have replicated her issue.

 

[nicalandia]

I ramble too much, but what i’m trying to ask is: should I expect their female offspring to have spurs as well? I assume it’s genetic, because 2/3 seem to have them, but do you know if it’s dominant or recessive for hens to grow spurs?

It's a Dominant trait, very common in Game hens around here.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

@nicalandia
apologies if this is super late, but do you know of anything in particular that attributes to, or causes hens to grow spurs?
I just purchased 3 mottled houdans, and though I haven’t thoroughly checked them all, 2/3 seem have small spurs at this point. At least one definitely has spurs.

I ramble too much, but what i’m trying to ask is: should I expect their female offspring to have spurs as well? I assume it’s genetic, because 2/3 seem to have them, but do you know if it’s dominant or recessive for hens to grow spurs?

My experience so far is that it doesn't pass down very often to offspring. I have several spurred hens and I don't think any of their pullets, maybe 1, have gotten spurs

 

[MysteryChicken]

I have a hen with crooked toes. I have no idea what happened to make her foot the way it was, but as a chick she couldn't walk on one foot well and as she got older,the weight drove her down until the bones broke to support her. You wouldn't know now watching her move that anything was ever wrong. Of the 3 daughters and 4 sons I've hatched so far, none have replicated her issue.

There's several causes to crooked toes: Injury, Vitamin Deficiency, Incubator Mishap, & Genetics.

 

[MysteryChicken]

@nicalandia
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[nicalandia]

@nicalandia, Would my Blue mottled bantam hen be good to test for mottling, with Dino, the Chameleon hen's father?

I believe Dino is too large for such small hen

 

[MysteryChicken]

I believe Dino is too large for such small hen

I can do AI, I did some practicing last year.