The Quack Shack

[Trimurtisan]

My fever is going downwards each day 99.6 today. Getting there!

That's good you're getting better. Hopefully you can kick it here soon.

 

[Tooshay89]

I'm not feeling too good today. It started with a head ache but now I've got bad body aches and feel feverish. Ughh... no temperature but it sure feels like there should be.

Oh no! Hopefully you guys aren't coming down with something. I know pollen in the area is awful right now, but those symptoms don't seem allergy-ish.

 

[Tooshay89]

My fever is going downwards each day 99.6 today. Getting there!

Hooray! You'll be better before you know it! The flu sucks.

 

[Trimurtisan]

Oh no! Hopefully you guys aren't coming down with something. I know pollen in the area is awful right now, but those symptoms don't seem allergy-ish.

That's what I was thinking this morning. It felt a lot like a sinus headache, but it doesn't anymore.

 

[Trimurtisan]

My current saving grace is that this boy loves to snuggle.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

So blue bibbed, it looks like That color, luckily, isn't hard. The blue dilution gene is incompletely dominant. Blue bred to blue will yield 50% blue, 25% black, and 25% silver. Blue to black is 50% blue and 50% black. Silver to black is 100% blue.

So since it's a dominant gene, as long as you have any of them that are blue (or silver) you'll get blue ducklings from them, and won't lose the color.

Are you wanting to keep the white or were you trying for solid blue?

I was wanting to keep the white. Right now these are Pekin/Runner mixes which I like a lot. They have good hybrid vigor and are exceptional egg layers, very calm and large enough to be good meat birds. Sweet enough to be good with children and as pets. So I am interested in keeping that kind of mix. If someone had sold them to me as blue Swedish not sure I would know th e difference but seem a little better egg layers and more friendly.
not sure I would know a silver, don't think I've every seen on e, but sounds like it I had a silver drake and a black Swedish hen I would get all gray babies.

 

[Trimurtisan]

@duluthralphie did you say you have Dom chickens? I'd love to see some pictures if so

 

[Trimurtisan]

@007Sean is this an average price for these eggs?

 

[Miss Lydia]

The Brahma abd Polish chicks are enjoying shine freedom! I'll let them free range with the bantams four about the next month. Let them get done size on them and learn to deal with adult birds before integrating them with the large fowls.

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They are so cute

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

@007Sean is this an average price for these eggs?
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ok I try hard not to be that guy, but these birds, if they are really prairie chickens are e ndangered. I wouldn't think you could buy eggs. I would love to have some on my land to keep TXDOT from taking it, but I suspect this might be a sting of some sort.