The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG the bonus is that they are staying in SLC and will have to drive over an hour to get where we work. C'mon snow! ;-)

You're evil.

And they'll cancel even if it's just a threat of snow.

 

[Wisher1000]

Okay everybody, anyone want to venture a guess as to what this bird is? All I can tell you is I hatched it. I don't know for sure if she came from my birds or from Kowgurl's. I have not had any barred rocks or any other bird with that coloring. The only help I can give you is to name the breeds I had at the time and see if you can guess. I had SLW, BSL, RIR, BO, EE, G/SCampine, OEGB, WCBP, and BL. Anyone want to make a guess?



I also took some pics of some of my hens....


This is the hen that I think laid SCG's blue egg that hatched the white chicks.


A group shot

 

[gryeyes]

I like Fred a lot. BF got me his video when I was thinking about getting chickens. I must have watched it 10 times.

I have a couple compost piles going right now... I burned the shavings because those chickens had mites. It was a quarantine situation.

Oh, sorry. Yet another example of my not knowing everything. Silly me! I need to work on that...

 

[hemet dennis]

Oh, sorry. Yet another example of my not knowing everything. Silly me! I need to work on that...

Be careful I think when you finally know "everything" that's when you die.

That's why I try to stay a little uninformed.

 

[Bunnylady]

Blessed if I know.

It's absurd - I spend all this time on a chicken forum, and all I seem to learn is just how little I know about chickens.

I know very little about chicken color genetics, but I think I've heard that the barring gene is dominant. It sounds like one parent would probably have to be barred (could be something like Crele: doesn't have to be classic black-and-white). I'm not sure, maybe something like dominant white might be able to cover that up?

It looks to me like this bird has 2 patterns going on, though. What's happening on her head and neck isn't barring; that looks more like lacing.

 

[ronott1]

Okay everybody, anyone want to venture a guess as to what this bird is? All I can tell you is I hatched it. I don't know for sure if she came from my birds or from Kowgurl's. I have not had any barred rocks or any other bird with that coloring. The only help I can give you is to name the breeds I had at the time and see if you can guess. I had SLW, BSL, RIR, BO, EE, G/SCampine, OEGB, WCBP, and BL. Anyone want to make a guess?



I also took some pics of some of my hens....


This is the hen that I think laid SCG's blue egg that hatched the white chicks.


A group shot

A black sex link with an SLW. Has a wyendotte comb and when sex links reproduce, they break back to the parent stock, so the barring comes from the Barred rock used to make the BSL.

Beautiful Franken Chicken!

 

[Wisher1000]

See? That makes perfect sense, Ron! Yes, I have BSL hens and HAD a SLW roo back then. He has since been rehomed to a flock of SLW hens. Thank you, it seems simply obvious now, but I would likely never thought about that! Thanks! You so smart!

You may see some of the BCM hens in that group pic......

 

[ronott1]

See? That makes perfect sense, Ron! Yes, I have BSL hens and HAD a SLW roo back then. He has since been rehomed to a flock of SLW hens. Thank you, it seems simply obvious now, but I would likely never thought about that! Thanks! You so smart!

You may see some of the BCM hens in that group pic......

Your Welcome!

The Marans look very nice too!

 

[Cynthia12]

See? That makes perfect sense, Ron! Yes, I have BSL hens and HAD a SLW roo back then. He has since been rehomed to a flock of SLW hens. Thank you, it seems simply obvious now, but I would likely never thought about that! Thanks! You so smart!

You may see some of the BCM hens in that group pic......

I was going to guess there was some wyondotte in there..didn't know about the black sex link genetics..now I do.

Very interesting. I know more about how the red sex links are made...made? ha....

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Oh, sorry. Yet another example of my not knowing everything. Silly me! I need to work on that...

Yes, why aren't you clairvoyant yet?



Just went outside to do the biddies, and the snow we were supposed to get last night was rain. I forgot that when rain hits snow on the ground it makes ice. Ouch. And I'm covered in wet chicken feed from the fall, but most of it didn't spill!

I have spikes for the bottom of my shoes, but I spend more time picking them up off the ground after they fall off than I do actually using them to grip ice.