Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[Jules929]

Sex linked olive eggers would be something like a solid Ameraucana over a cuckoo marans hen but there is a few different combos to achieve sex linked chicks. Im getting some in my shippment off eggs but i think a Welsummer and barred/cuckoo Araucana were used
ETA might actually be a legbar hen, I'll need to confirm this lol

Thanks!

 

[aliciaplus3]

I'd sex link turkeys. They take forever to tell.

there are a couple of sex linked genes. chocolate is one of them... but it requieres a specific breeding to make it work. BRB out to porters turkey calculator!

 

[aliciaplus3]

it can be done with a chocolate tom over a bronze hen then all the boys will hatch barred black and the girls will be barred chocolates!

 

[aliciaplus3]

if you put a Narragansett tom over a bronze hen then the boys will be bronze and the girls will be narragansett although this one might be harder to distinguish at hatch. but the chocolate one would be pretty straight forward!
I do know by the second generation with the barred black and trying to get just Pure black not barred black that we still have some little chocolate hens popping up... so its a fun thing. I do like it when I can tell folks yup thats a girl before its 7 months old

 

[hysop]

I think my brown egg is not fertilized because it’s clear, but it does have an air cell. Debating on removing it now or until Day 18 or 14 if it’s for sure that obvious compared to the others. I took a picture of one egg on the same day as the brown in comparison. I’m on Day 11.

 

[aliciaplus3]

I've never had them. I'd get female ones no males. Maybe males some day when I want to incubate. I'll stick with incubating chickens and filling the freezer plus increasing people's flocks

I actually offered to take a friend's retired hens and give him a new flock, free of charge. Heck ya he will have the best flock around. This last hatch of barnyard mixes looks amazing with their coloring. Good solid breeding stock too.

you sound as bad as me always looking for an excuse to hatch something! lol
yes my incubator is full again. and the brooders.

 

[hysop]

I'm still getting some notifications but it's definitely not all of the threads I'm watching.

I don’t rely on the bell alerts. I just go straight to watched threads because I don’t always get notifications on some of the threads.

 

[gmjarvi]

Well I just turned my eggs and did a quick candle on one and......there's a lil bean in there! so excited to candle the rest of them later!!

 

[hysop]

Well I just turned my eggs and did a quick candle on one and......there's a lil bean in there! so excited to candle the rest of them later!!

The first time I saw the little bean I was so excited!!

Now I feel like when I was pregnant and wanted to see the babies in person and was tired of ultrasounds haha.

 

[Mylied]

I think my brown egg is not fertilized because it’s clear, but it does have an air cell. Debating on removing it now or until Day 18 or 14 if it’s for sure that obvious compared to the others. I took a picture of one egg on the same day as the brown in comparison. I’m on Day 11.
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Air cells always develop. It grows as moisture leaves the egg. Even in unfertilized eggs. That egg looks clear. At 11 days you should see veining. It won't hurt to keep it in but I toss them at that age.