Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[QuackerJackFarms]

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they are pigs until they get full grown

Very True! They ate more than my LF's.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

FYI: When I was researching the sussex, ALL I found was terms like "gentle giants", "calm", "docile", "great with kids". If that helps.

I researched that pretty hard core what with having 3 small children. Aren't the BEAUTIFUL!!

 

[country_girl011]

our cochins are extremely friendly 2.
3 of them dont even get after you when you try to mess with their babies. they are just proud of them and show them off.
the other 2, are a lot more protective.
and we have 2 roosters who NEVER fight.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

2 each of what QJ?

I'll probably be getting them from idea poultry. They have the colors I want. I can only have one roo so I can hatch the ones I want

and I will be getting FL because the batams are STR.

 

[country_girl011]

if the girls were still laying.
or well let me refrase that .
laying where we could find the darn eggs.
i would ship you some.
but with winter they have pretty much quit.
their eggs are what i use for my egg blowing

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

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Hmmmm.. decisions, decisions.... I would go with the sussex, lavender orps and cochins. How many LO's do you have right now?

 

[70%cocoa]

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You get a duck that is chocolate all over when you have a black duck and you add the chocolate gene, which is recessive and sex linked. The recessive sex linked bit means that boy ducks can only have and only need one dose to make them chocolate. Girl ducks must have two doses of chocolate. Edit; I wrote that round the wrong way. Boys need two doses of chocolate. Girls can only have one.

What is the end result that you're after and what do you have to work with?

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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Your so nice. But I dont have money for eggs and shipping.

QJ, I have no lav orps left

1 blue 1 black lav split (will produce blacks and lavs) and 2 pure blacks.

 

[country_girl011]

^^ talk about aquward stage


back whenthey were cutee

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

70%cocoa :

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You get a duck that is chocolate all over when you have a black duck and you add the chocolate gene, which is recessive and sex linked. The recessive sex linked bit means that boy ducks can only have and only need one dose to make them chocolate. Girl ducks must have two doses of chocolate.

What is the end result that you're after and what do you have to work with?

Let's hypothetically move this over to chickens... hypothetically of course. I have a black hen right now, I'm trying to figure out how to get blue. I will have a lavender roo and hen. I'm trying to do research to see what I need to add to the flock to get what I want. Which is choc. But it seems I might need a black and a blue for that combo.

And I realize that was all put rather elementary-ish.

I have been doing tons of research on chicken genetics. I'm pretty excited that I understood everything you said, and actually read something on that earlier today. Woo Hoo!​