Treebeard's offspring

[aliciaplus3]

No I don't think so

 

[aliciaplus3]

it will be interesting to follow this batch of babies as there are only 3 black Nn and 5 that are either buff or white{i cant tell yet}..... I am curious to know if they are Sexlinked??? some of the moms are black australorps

 

[aliciaplus3]

a little blurry but here are a couple of the white Nn babies

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I am curious to know if they are Sexlinked???

Cute babies!

Why would they be sex linked?

 

[aliciaplus3]

I was just figuring with Murphy's law all 3 of the black ones my dd adores would be roos...... sigh

 

[aliciaplus3]

update on jan babies.... hatched 3 black and 5 white Nn.... there are several Lilac? roos that I believe to be his also but for the purpose of my DDs 4-h project we are only tracking the Nn.
Sunday we put on wing bands and recorded weights, at 4 weeks most of the babies are over 11 oz... not bad. we plan to take weights probably every 2 weeks till they hit 16 weeks so we can see the growth curve and help decide on breeders for the next part of the project.

 

[aliciaplus3]

I currently have 4 roosters that are direct descends of treebeard.

Big boy shown here with one of my Delaware

blue foot, looking ready to molt

this hunky fella that has not found a name.

and white tail.... looking rough

I have several grand children of treebeard's

i call these 2 the blue boys

they hatched this spring out of blue boy

this beautiful blue Nn girl

this one is going to fair with my daughter he is out of blue foot
I have been setting every egg I can get out of big boys pen

he has 5 girls but I am only getting 1 to 3 eggs a day..... I have one of his babies in the brooder that is 2x as big as his hatch mates at 2 weeks old... just set a few more eggs so we will see what happens in 3 weeks

 

[aliciaplus3]

Moved the 3 and 4 week old babies outside today. Banded and weighed the ones I want to track. Here is a (bad) pic of 2 of Big Boys babies. The white one weighed in at 14.5 oz at 4 weeks and the blue one at 13 oz also 4 weeks old. Not bad and close to where their daddy was around the same age.

my next batch is due next weekend, and weekly for a while, I have set every egg I got from Big Boy and his ladies for the last 3 weeks. I am hopeful to get more of their offspring on the ground. My plan is to be able to consistently hatch babies that can hit close to 5 pounds live weight at 12 weeks. Big Boy did just that now I want to see if I can make that my standard not an oddity.