The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[The Moonshiner]

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I'm liking that boy.
Girls are interesting. I've saw the mixed genes since you started posting. Agree completely with @Amer on them and have been secretly jealous that you've got the wheaten gene.
I have to get it pulled from buffs and that's not the easiest or quickest project. You're ahead of me by leaps.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

@Amer
What do you think this bird is?
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Brahma mix?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I don't work on every project every year.
I just pick what I want to work on and set up those groups. Usually then I switch some groups out for other groups mid season or so.
I can't go over board on how many projects I'm working on at any given time cause I can't hatch but a certain amount and I can't have too many different projects at once because I need to keep them separated in the hatchers.
Each project group gets a 2 or 3 letter code assigned to them. When I pull eggs I write that one the eggs as soon as I take them from the pen. Then off course each project gets a different toe punch or cut when coming out of the hatchers.

Okay. So if I had like say, 20 breeds/varieties, would you suggest picking 3-5 that could be told apart at hatch per incubator? If they were all seperated already, that is.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Brahma mix?

Just looking for color/pattern genes.

 

[Chookwagn]

Just looking for color/pattern genes.

Buff Colombian of sorts??

 

[The Moonshiner]

Okay. So if I had like say, 20 breeds/varieties, would you suggest picking 3-5 that could be told apart at hatch per incubator? If they were all seperated already, that is.

I'd figure out how many eggs I'd be comfortable setting and raising chicks from. Then figure out by how many eggs I could collect from each in 6 or 7 days.
That would tell me how many groups I could do at once.
Then ya if I could tell them all apart at hatch that would work. I have projects that can hatch several different looking chicks and projects that can hatch the same as other projects. I need to keep my physically separated most times in the hatchers. Sometimes I can put certain projects together.
That's what I have to watch. What can I hatch while not getting them mixed up.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Buff Colombian of sorts??

I can see some Columbian going on but not straight buff.

 

[WallyG74]

I was sending you some eggs @Chookwagn, but after that gut punch…

 

[Chookwagn]

I was sending you some eggs @Chookwagn, but after that gut punch…

 

[Chookwagn]

I'm liking that boy.
Girls are interesting. I've saw the mixed genes since you started posting. Agree completely with @Amer on them and have been secretly jealous that you've got the wheaten gene.
I have to get it pulled from buffs and that's not the easiest or quickest project. You're ahead of me by leaps.

Hit me with some ideas for future projects with them.... be glad of some ideas

Psst! Could do you a swap of some eggs