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[KMHunter]

Ok, I have to ask.....when you guys say split, like Split Lavs.....what does that mean exactly?

Edited for spelling. Lol

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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It means they carry the gene for it. So typically in the lavender project, you work with blacks. When you breed a black and a lavender together, all the chicks will LOOK black, but will carry the lavender gene. If you breed a split black back to a lavender, you will have 50% lavender chicks/50% more split black chicks. If you breed split blacks together, you will get 25% black (no split), 50% split black (and no way to tell these two apart) and 25% lavender chicks.

You can do the same thing with some patterns, using blacks. Like if you have a black roo and a silver laced or mottled hen. If you breed the two together the babies will be split for silver laced or mottled and the breeding results will be the same as above.

Just reread your post. So you don't actually have Split Lav's. You would have Split Black, meaning split for the lavender gene, if you were working on the Lav project. Does that make sense?

 

[KMHunter]

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It means they carry the gene for it. So typically in the lavender project, you work with blacks. When you breed a black and a lavender together, all the chicks will LOOK black, but will carry the lavender gene. If you breed a split black back to a lavender, you will have 50% lavender chicks/50% more split black chicks. If you breed split blacks together, you will get 25% black (no split), 50% split black (and no way to tell these two apart) and 25% lavender chicks.

You can do the same thing with some patterns, using blacks. Like if you have a black roo and a silver laced or mottled hen. If you breed the two together the babies will be split for silver laced or mottled and the breeding results will be the same as above.

Just reread your post. So you don't actually have Split Lav's. You would have Split Black, meaning split for the lavender gene, if you were working on the Lav project. Does that make sense?

Yes! Thank you!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, no hired hand today: imagine her husband making plans to do something on her birthday! REALLY!

I'm trying to figure out a way to make progress on the Wyandotte coop with no help, but the answer is don't try, I think: I hurt more today than at any point after I fell, and if I have to make a chicken-wire and PVC tipi for the Hamburg baby, well: so be it. Better than pushing myself past the point of doing anything, no?

Of course I'm terrible at doing nothing; I'm sure I will, at some point, figure out a way to justify heavy lifting/ swinging a hammer while twisted at the waist/ other unwise occupation or activity.

 

[Chickielady]

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Hope it wasn't a brown recluse !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Gonna start callin ya the Bee Whisperer!

Or toe-mater.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

I just found my next project!!! Check out this BEEE U TEEE FULLLL bird!!!

I already have too many cuckoo Olive Egger roo's who are split for lavender to count!!!!

And I have black split for lav Ameraucana pullets in my grow out pen!

Breed them together, and I should have some of those lavender cuckoo babies hatch!!!!

Like I need another project like I need a hole in my head.....but I don't have to acquire any new birds to do it!!!

And they will be sex linked at hatch TOO!!!!

And lay pretty colored eggs TOO!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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I have the W Am cockerals..didn't you just get one ?

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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I have the W Am cockerals..didn't you just get one ?

She wanted a Wheaten or Blue Wheaten MARANS rooster. Try Zgoatlady?

 

[Chickielady]

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Yep, that is one of the outside rules...major rule. Don't touch me.

This brough back a childhood memory.
Lake fishing in CA with my granny. She would try to bank the boat by skimming under the scrubby trees that grow along the banks edge. It was always infested with the largest, hairiest spiders a little girls mind could imagine! And there was no where to go except into the lake! Horrible, trapped feeling! I still get the heebie geebies just thinking about it!

Sounds like Clear Lake, home to the biggest Daddy Longlegs, they are evrywhere, trees, bushes, houses are covered.
They do get the giant assortment of mosquiters though...