The BYC Crazy Egg Chain- Please Read Pg 181 Post #1808

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Okay I looked and they don't seem to be the same thing....

 

[siz8003]

Ok this is my problem. I took the BRs and also the silkies. I was told that they have stopped laying.

so now I get no eggs. What should I do

 

[Msbear]

I've been creeping on this thread just waitinng

and saw your dilema...

sorry for laughing but that is something that would happen to me. Maybe you should get the next pic and then we start over

 

[arabookworm]

would anyone be interested in starting another egg chain where anything goes? as in you can put any kind of bird, mixed breed or pure breed? cuz those of us with (or soon to have) mixed breeds are starting to feel left out

or at least I am.

so... should we do it?

 

[perfectly_polish]

Quote:
That is how this thread started out, and it just got too confusing.
There is a mixed breed egg chain, and a waterfowl/other egg chain.

 

[ginasmarans]

I may be wrong,but aren't cinnamon queens a sex link chicken? If so,they will not breed true. Just wondering because this thread is supposed to be pure breeds only. It used to be "anything goes" but it got to where people snatched up pure breds and then offered mixed,and no one wanted to trade pure breeds for mixed breeds.

 

[siz8003]

I guess I am out 2 shipments

 

[thepetpaw]

they are a sex link but the cinnamon queen is a bit different from the red sex link here are the x-ings for the genes ---here is the lineges for all the sex links

Silver Laced Wyandotte crossed with New Hampshire gives the Cinnamon Queen. Two other crosses are obtained with Rhode Island White x Rhode Island Red, and Delaware x Production Red. These two crosses are simply called Red Sex-Links.

Black Sex-Links are produced using a Barred Rock as the mother. Both sexes hatch out black, but the males have a white dot on their heads. Pullets feather out black with some red in neck feathers. Males feather out with the Barred Rock pattern along with a few red feathers. Black Sex-Links are often referred to as Rock Reds.

Red Sex-Links are the result of various crosses. White Rocks with the silver factor (the dominant white gene would produce all white offspring) are crossed with a New Hampshire male to produce the Golden Comet. \\\\ Males hatch out white and, depending on the cross, feather out to pure white or with some black feathering. Females hatch out buff or red also depending on cross, and they feather out in one of three ways.

Buff with white or tinted undercolor (such as Golden Comet, Rhode Island Red x Rhode Island White)
Red with White or tinted undercolor (Cinnamon Queen)
Red with Red undercolor (Delaware x Production Red) (In this color pattern it is almost impossible to distinguish daughters' color from father's color.)


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[ginasmarans]

So if you breed two cinnamon queens to each other,will the resulting offspring yield 100% cinnamon Queen?

 

[thepetpaw]

The ones I have have been bred straight for almost ten years. I get them from an amish farm (my hatching eggs) the bred for cinnamon queens about 10 years ago and now they breed the cinnamon queen femles and males and have been doing this for about 10 years.
The family only continues to breed the hens that lay the xlarge eggs and the ones that lay the smaller eggs are dinner. It really is quite amazing how big these girls lay their eggs and how young. I guess if you have ten years to develope the line then you can get the biggest eggs.

They are personal friends of mine .... I wanted and got some RIR and various other breeds as you can see in my signature line but none of my chickens come close to laying eggs as big as these girls do on a regular basis...and the birds are not very big...not nearly as gib as my RIR or light brahmas but the eggs are super big - i would call them all jumbos....!