The Middle Tennessee Thread

[DMRippy]

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No, Never got into the Lavender Orps.

 

[Peach2u]

I lost my last hatched chick I helped out last night. It wouldn't drink or eat. So my first attempt at incubating my own wasn't so great. 19 chicks out of 48 eggs. I will change the humidity next time. I will not add water for the first 18 days then I'll fill all the trays up. I lost 6 in the shell 2 where zipped but couldn't get out the other 4 had their little beaks out of the shell. Then I helped the last 4 out. 3 of 4 of them are doing well. If I hadn't marked them I wouldn't know which ones where last.

 

[jc12551]

We had four mutt bantam chicks hatch on Saturday! I was not expecting anything to hatch from this hen. They are all cochin and sikie mixed (two pure cochin hens, a silkie mixed hen with two cochin roos and two cochin x silkie roos). Only one has black skin, two have straight combs, two have smooth combs, all have four toes and the legs are feathered like a cochin. They are adorable! Three eggs didn't hatch: two were quitters, and one (the LF Olive Egger) would have hatched given a day or two

I have a BA hen that usually hatches turkeys for me sitting on seven eggs. Due in two weeks!!!

Is it miserably hot for everyone today?

 

[Peach2u]

Yes, it's going to hit 90 here today and no A/C it's broken ;-{ Capasitor is to blame I think. It was replaced last Jan as well as a blower for the same reason. Hope it isn't the blower motor again. It's hard to find for this unit and expencive.

 

[elorraine52]

thanks anyway, Donna

 

[Raven1]

BIN
I have eggs gathered over the weekend available by the egg price includes shipping.
11 Sex-Link chocolate eggers BCM Roo over Cuckoo Hens (males will have white head spot at hatch) $2.00 an egg
8 Copper Marans BCM Roo over Blue Copper Hens (eggs have lightened up they have been laying since Jan.) $2.00 an egg
18 White Marans (not as dark as I would like but this years hatch should lay darker) $2.00 an egg
35 Birchen Marans (starting to lighten up a bit) $3.00





Just let me know which and how many you want and I will try to keep this updated.
Thanks

I have these listed in the Just in time hatching thread in case any of you are interested.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/754077/just-in-time-hatching-egg-auction-and-bin-thread/2850

 

[msmeower]

Raven- are Marans sex linked if you do it the other way? I have a Cuckoo Roo over BCM hens. Some of the offspring have white spots, some don't.

 

[Raven1]

No I don't think it works that way. Donna will chime in and tell us in a minute she knows more than me on the sex-links but, I am pretty sure if your roo is the cuckoo you can get either or on the chicks. With the hens being cuckoo they can only pass the barring to the roos.

 

[DMRippy]

A cuckoo or barred roo has 2 copies of the gene and will pass it off to 100% of the chicks. Hens can only pass it off to roos since it is sex linked.

 

[msmeower]

Is it that way with any barred breed? Or just Marans?