Virginia

[choptank330]

@ki4got Do you have any easter egger girls that you want to sell or get rid of? I am not sure where you are, I am in Thaxton/Bedford area. PM me and maybe we can work something out!!

 

[ki4got]

@ki4got Do you have any easter egger girls that you want to sell or get rid of? I am not sure where you are, I am in Thaxton/Bedford area. PM me and maybe we can work something out!!

pm sent. 8) but the answer's not yet. I've got 3 girls but with them free ranging i'm finding eggs only now and then. and half the time frozen when I do. got 2 in the incubator growing.

I REALLY need to finish these coops... but need help and when hubby's home, the weather's icky, when it's nice, he's not. LOL

 

[choptank330]

I agree same here. We are building a new coop and it seems the same way. When he's home it's nasty out.

 

[braden38351]

Got anyone interested I just saw that there is a chicken swap on the 18th at the tractor supply in Smithfield

 

[bowen012]

Southwest Virginia

Looking for LF Salmon Faverolles, Naked Neck, Barred Rock, Black Ameraucana, Buff Brahma. Prefer marek's vaccinated birds. Looking for small quantities, only a couple birds of each and could live with a single Naked Neck and Brahma. Maybe an Easter Egger if it's an interesting enough color/pattern.

 

[ki4got]

Southwest Virginia

Looking for LF Salmon Faverolles, Naked Neck, Barred Rock, Black Ameraucana, Buff Brahma. Prefer marek's vaccinated birds. Looking for small quantities, only a couple birds of each and could live with a single Naked Neck and Brahma. Maybe an Easter Egger if it's an interesting enough color/pattern.

I don't vaccinate for mareks, but haven't had any issues with it in anything but shipped chicks in the last few years... my own stock seems immune.

as for chicks, I've got at least 2 ee's due to hatch in the next week or so. i'll know for sure when they hatch. 2 blue eggs for sure, but my other girls were free ranging prior to being penned, so it depends how long the 'roo juice' lasted.

 

[MontanaDolphin]

Hey ya'll...my hatch from NYD produced 4 roos...one of them I'm keeping, but need to find homes for the other 3. They are 2 weeks old, Barred Rock over Barred Rock or Commercial Black (hatchery BR cross). If you need a roo, or want to raise them for freezer camp, shoot me a pm...I'm located in the northwestern corner of Goochland County (2 miles off I-64 at exit 148). I'd really like to find homes for them asap...means more room for me to hatch more!

Pics of the chicks (the colors on their heads is food coloring so I can identify who's who:






Here's a pic of the daddy:


The possible moms:

 

[Maggiesdad]

Hmmm... the first two kinda look like girls! Maybe they're hetero barred from the com black cross?

 

[MontanaDolphin]

Hmmm... the first two kinda look like girls! Maybe they're hetero barred from the com black cross?

I wish I knew! I was told on another thread that I couldn't feather sex by length of feathers, but speed of growth. All chicks but the one I'm sure is a pullet still had fuzz on their wings, but the pullet had wing feathers long enough to see the two separate lengths on day 1. I didn't take pics of the feathers until day 3. On that day, all chicks had two different lengths of feathers. Here, I'll post pics of their wing feathers at day 3:

Chick 1:


Chick 2:


Chick 3:


Chick 4:


Chick 5:



So I just don't know. Since I'm not sure if these babies are from my Barred Rock girls or my Commercial Black girls, I can't be sure they will show the normal signs of boy/girl like BR's do.

 

[Maggiesdad]

I wish I knew! I was told on another thread that I couldn't feather sex by length of feathers, but speed of growth. All chicks but the one I'm sure is a pullet still had fuzz on their wings, but the pullet had wing feathers long enough to see the two separate lengths on day 1. I didn't take pics of the feathers until day 3. On that day, all chicks had two different lengths of feathers. Here, I'll post pics of their wing feathers at day 3:


So I just don't know. Since I'm not sure if these babies are from my Barred Rock girls or my Commercial Black girls, I can't be sure they will show the normal signs of boy/girl like BR's do.

It will be fun to watch them grow out!

I was looking at the width of the white band on the wing feathers. With the the barring gene being sexlinked, the males from the black(hen) cross will only have one copy of barring, same as the girls. So the boys from that cross will be dark like a BR pullet.

The third chick in the first set definitely has two copies, so that's a BRxBR chick. The nibs on his comb are already lengthening, too. I can't see the teeth on the first two dark chicks.
If they are boys, their combs will be right with his or maybe even a little bit bigger. You'll know for sure in two more weeks!

Here's an example of a hetero barred cockerel (barred red sire over a black hen)... the girls are reminiscent of BRs with red leakage, and the boys are darker than BR roosters. They tatse really good - don be so quick to give them away!