WA 4-H Might your dominant white looking, from black split for lav chick be a mottled through back? I've been reading a lot about the lav gene recently. Seems like several breeds have had issues with "hidden" mottled genes.
So it is snowing like crazy here now. The truck is white, the coop is white, and the road is white. I think the only things that are not white are the faster moving black and red calves, the yearlings, and the healer!
By the way I think I remember reading somewhere that sheep and chicken semen does not freeze or defrost well. Comparatively I get semen for the cows from all over, including Canada! I order, pay, they ship, I receive, put it in my tank and watch for heat in the girls and breed 12 hours later. I do like the part where you can just kind of give the semen to the hen and she takes it in. Almost as easy as breeding a pig!
