The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[speckledhen]

I had the mod lock the article comments and leave the ones up there that already existed. People can get the information from it without commenting and if they want, they can PM me. There is a glitch in the article system where you can reply to the first comment someone makes, but if they reply with a second, you have no option to reply to it. She's asking Rob about that issue. I do not mind talking about it and my choices in a civil manner, but no one gets to tell me that I must do it their way or I'm a horrible person.


This troll followed me to my channel and harrassed me there, too. WTH?
It was on a video about euthanizing deformed, just-hatched chicks, as if that was the same thing at all. Said but I won't kill all my dwarf gene carriers. How is that relevant?

Guess I have my next video subject!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Strange how people have so much time on their hands these days, as well as the arrogance to think their way is the only way, or the right way. People like that exhaust me.

 

[speckledhen]

Strange how people have so much time on their hands these days, as well as the arrogance to think their way is the only way, or the right way. People like that exhaust me.

Oh, well, it gave me a video subject!

Breeding Ethics: Not Black & White

Uploading in a few minutes. Fodder for the YouTube channel!

Wish folks could just be respectful and not go all "stalker-y" on you. The dwarf gene is not as cut and dried as they seem to think. I can't even tell who the carriers are unless I breed two together and pop out a dwarf. MaryJo may or may not be one. If not, I am wasting a nice hen on Atlas when she could be with Hector, but I am not taking the chance. I'm not killing my sweet Atlas.

 

[speckledhen]

You know, little Xander had two side sprigs on his comb, one on each side at the back. He was a hatchery Cochin and he was never reproduced, but if I had lost my Belgian D'Anver males, I would have put him over the rose-combed girls in there where his sprig would not have mattered. I like that cross, did it with my lavender Cochin hen and the D'Anver roosters. So, should I have killed Xander? Heaven forbid! He was a great flock rooster for the big girls, kept the young large fowl cockerels in line. I'd get him all over again if I could. I realize the dwarf gene is a little different than a side sprig, but still. Dwarfs are healthy until they just die. Pooh-bear was adorable and feisty. Thea has wry tail. She can still lay eggs. I just don't hatch them.

 

[speckledhen]

 

[Leahs Mom]

Sounds like common sense to me.

BTW...I just found out that you can embed a YouTube without it listing a bunch of videos at the end. Wanna know how?

 

[speckledhen]

Sounds like common sense to me.

BTW...I just found out that you can embed a YouTube without it listing a bunch of videos at the end. Wanna know how?

Yes, tell me!

 

[MistyMountain]

Still following along as making pasture, building barns, picking wine berries and making memories with my boys will allow.

This dwarfism in your flock fascinates me. I wish there was an easy way for you to test your flock. It is crazy just how much is NOT known about this. It would seem you are the leading authority on it! I sent someone from our local chicken page to your thread a few months ago. They suspected they may have some sort of dwarfism going on in their own flock. I'll have to reach out to her to see how things turn out.

It is interesting how different types of dwarfism, even in different types of animals, are viewed so differently. Some dexter cattle carry a form of dwarfism, chondrodysplasia. The "long legged" are not carriers and the "shorties" are carriers of 1 gene only. The rule is, you do not breed two shorties together for risk of getting two genes passed on to the calf resulting in a fatal "bull dog" calf. One gene is OK and fully accepted, but two results in a dead calf and potentially dead dam. Like everywhere, some like talls, some like shorties, some like traditionally horned, some like polled.

 

[speckledhen]

@MistyMountain glad you checked in. Obviously, the Dexter gene is not the same type of dwarfism as this one. This one is only semi-lethal. Crazy stuff, these genes do.

 

[Leahs Mom]

First, let me test it out here on byc.

So far it doesn't seem to be working correctly on byc - though it works on other sites I've used it with.

When you get the embed code, scroll down in that window. There is a check box to uncheck that says, "Show suggested videos when the video finishes. They cc the embed code.

But...why not working on byc... hmmmm