The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[The Moonshiner]

Moony, do some of your boys just take forever to grow tails?

I've had some like that but most have no trouble with it.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've had some like that but most have no trouble with it.

Okay. My little blue boy has nothing when it comes to his tail, and he just looks so goofy

 

[The Moonshiner]

Okay. My little blue boy has nothing when it comes to his tail, and he just looks so goofy

I had the twins last year. Two blue gold duckwing boys I was eyeing to keep. For a while one had no tail feathers and the other had like two. Pitiful, but they grew in and looked great eventually.

 

[NagemTX]

In my blue and lavenders the tails seem to grow slower. They are Ameraucana, Orpington and crosses of those or a cross of Ameraucana and Phoenix. They all have or had spars tails as juveniles.

 

[WallyG74]

Now just some Duckwings......
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All pullets

 

[The Moonshiner]

All pullets

Just my luck.
You're showing off nice roosters and all I'm getting is d@mnned ol pullets.

 

[WallyG74]

Just my luck.
You're showing off nice roosters and all I'm getting is d@mnned ol pullets.

You’re welcome

 

[Sofaking]

Given some eggs that are not fertile, some that do not develop, and a few that hatch weak chicks, a good hatch for me is 70%.

I have a GQF 1202 incubator that holds 6 trays or roughly 300 eggs. I try to put in 100 eggs per week usually from March to May. That gives me roughly 1000 chicks to select for desired traits.

I thought the 1202 only hold 180 eggs, what kind of incubator do you have,

 

[The Moonshiner]

Regular hatch 41
Maticoopx 26
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991
B 18th

 

[The Moonshiner]

I thought the 1202 only hold 180 eggs, what kind of incubator do you have,

I had an old sportsman once upon a time. It was back when they were made out of plywood and were painted red.
It had a hatching tray and 3 trays for setting eggs. Each tray held 2 plastic egg flats that held 45 eggs each so total of 270 eggs.