The Moonshiner's Chick Chat

[Chookwagn]

Wtf is all this "leakage " I read about? Never heard that before until I started reading regular chicken folk. Can there not be a different word? Sounds like an old man's word

Any suggestions on what word to use?

Wet sprinkle?
Overflow?

 

[Chookwagn]

21 so farView attachment 3434683

Looks like I'm finished 27 hatched out of 28 fertile

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

Looks like I'm finished 27 hatched out of 28 fertile

All 18 of mine are still developing! Haven't lost a single one of the silkie eggs

 

[kurby22]

Now I don’t fuss with those colors anymoreView attachment 3435057

I fuss with a lot of brassiness though in my cuckoos.

Is that Queenie?

 

[kurby22]

Looks like I'm finished 27 hatched out of 28 fertile

That’s a really great hatching rate. I just put 35 eggs in for the Easter HAL and I would LOVE this hatch rate! However mine are all shipped from North Carolina, so I’m not holding my breath!

 

[troyer]

What do you mean "these things happen"

I was expecting solid black cockerels, but an unknown (to me) gene let the red through. In the 20+ years of breeding Cubalaya I have gotten colors that long time genetic pros told me were impossible.
This cockerel is part of a line that I had added to mine 4 years previous and I am still learning how it interacts with my genetics. Based on the breeder I got that line from, him and a buddy of his had gotten nothing but solid blacks for 30+ years. Hence "these things happen". Cause he "should have" come out solid black.
It seems like there are some genes that have been suppressed so much by selection that they eventually stayed hidden. It wasn't until two old lines were bred together and then the F1's were bred back to their parents that a whole slew of defects showed up. Feather color defects that would have disqualified the show birds.

 

[Painted Calls]

Any suggestions on what word to use?

Wet sprinkle?
Overflow?

wet sprinkle sounds fun!

 

[WallyG74]

wet sprinkle sounds fun!

Can’t take you anywhere!

 

[WallyG74]

Waiting on a chicken butt to get off some eggs and I’ll get the little one loaded up for Easter HAL!

 

[The Moonshiner]

So yesterday morning...

It ended up reaching 30°

This morning....

High supposed to be 40°

So for real is there any chance of s even being viable for hatching at these temps? I'm thinking not much.