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LingaB said:
Hey all! On the road headed to Cleveland, GA. Currently in Royston. Found a Rhodesian ridgeback that needs to be rehomed. I've been wanting one for so long! Fingers crossed him and my dog get along!
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Is your dog a male? Don't just bring the new dog into the yard, introduce in a neutral "fun relaxed environment". Even if they get along be careful about "resources" when bringing them into your home.

Consider baby steps as in crates and dogs see each other but don't have the opportunity to fight. Hate to be paranoid here but I have integrated MANY aggressive breed dogs and it isn't something to take lightly. If they seem to get along (two males, or two females if they are both of the same gender) be EXTREMELY careful regarding food and treats for at least 3 weeks.

I am probably talking to the wall here but I am a dog lover and have done rescue for many years, Rhodesian Ridgebacks can be aggressive and folks need to be prepared when introducing a dog.
 
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JennaLynn122 said:
I have a question for someone that knows a bit about genetics...
What causes barring?
And what does barring look like in a juvenile?
I have GLW over RIR crosses (2 weeks old) and they look like the might become barred or partially barred. Would the gene from the lacing possibly be the cause of this. The primary flight wings are red with gold lacing but the secondaries compared to my pure GLWs are more striped/barred.
Not sure if this would be barring or just a coincidental pattern.
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This little one will be a gold-laced. I can tell by the longer wing feathers on the outside that are exactly that - gold laced.

The barring you see right now is part of their "chick feathering". It's something a lot of chicks get when they first develop feathers, and is thought to help them camouflage into their surroundings as they are still growing. After a while, they will lose this coloration and get their adult colors by about 4-6 months of age. So it's perfectly normal for a baby to appear barred at first.

But I can tell yours doesn't have the barred gene, because it has a very odd side effect that I'm NOT seeing on yours. The barring gene, for some reason, will result in a white dot on the top of a baby chick's head (while they still have down on their head, before feathering). Yours doesn't seem to have a white dot. If anything, it has a brown splotch, which sometimes resembles, or is seen as more of a brown triangle on some breeds (like a Phoenix chick). The barring gene only produces white dots though, not brown or black.

Also, the barring gene and lacing gene are two different genes. So one wouldn't cause the other.
 
ChickDancer said:
This little one will be a gold-laced. I can tell by the longer wing feathers on the outside that are exactly that - gold laced.

The barring you see right now is part of their "chick feathering". It's something a lot of chicks get when they first develop feathers, and is thought to help them camouflage into their surroundings as they are still growing. After a while, they will lose this coloration and get their adult colors by about 4-6 months of age. So it's perfectly normal for a baby to appear barred at first.

But I can tell yours doesn't have the barred gene, because it has a very odd side effect that I'm NOT seeing on yours. The barring gene, for some reason, will result in a white dot on the top of a baby chick's head (while they still have down on their head, before feathering). Yours doesn't seem to have a white dot. If anything, it has a brown splotch, which sometimes resembles, or is seen as more of a brown triangle on some breeds (like a Phoenix chick). The barring gene only produces white dots though, not brown or black.

Also, the barring gene and lacing gene are two different genes. So one wouldn't cause the other.
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Okay, awesome. I was curious. This is my first time with chicks let alone mixed ones and i noticed niether of the pure bred RIR or GLW had that and was rather confused. The brown sploth on his head is actually more of a line like the RIRs have. The other 2 mixes have a more prominent line there. I did definitely notice the gold lacing on the primary feathers. Love it
Thank you for the help!!!
 
So I just went outside and heard a loud chicken "yelp" sound - like that of a hen who was surprisingly grabbed by a rooster. Only problem is, it came from the woods, and my only free-ranging roo was in eyesight, no where near the sound. Two of his hens were with him, with Brownie being the only missing one.

So I followed it, and a few minutes later found Brownie safe and sound. Maybe she just saw something, or a tree limb fell in the woods (some are still weak and dangling from the ice storm in February) and scared her. I went looking around just to be sure though, and came into the neighbor's property where he has two pole barns full of junk. Everything from broken lawnmowers to 15 shovels in various stages of rust and decay are in there - lots of cinder blocks, car tires, a lobster trap, old fridge, you name it, he's got it stuffed under there.

Since I was there, I decided to check a popular egg-laying spot that the hens used last summer. It consists of two cinder blocks laying parallel beside a broken-down and rusted-out riding lawmower, and a tire leaning against the cinder blocks/ And sure enough, it was full! I had finally found Karmel's laying spot!

BUT there was something really odd about it. I checked it last about 2-3 weeks ago, and didn't see anything. It's not surprising that I found something, since I have three free-ranging hens right now. But what IS surprising is that two of those hens lay green eggs, one lays brown, and their little nest had green, brown.... and WHITE eggs! I have no fricking clue WHO put the white eggs in there. I did lose one Sumatra hen a couple of days ago, but she's not "lost", she died. A predator tried to pull her through the fence of her enclosure, and then took off with her head, leaving her body behind. So I'm PRETTY darn sure it's not hers!

But plainly put, there is no free-ranging hen that lays white eggs, and there hasn't been one for about 3 months. There's no way any of my hens laid these white eggs. They're also too small for my current free-ranging hens - they all lay very large eggs, and these are slightly smaller.

There are only three of them too. But I'm going to incubate them and see what happens. My secondary incubator just went into the dish washer to get cleaned up for it. Then I'm going to mark all of these, and see what I get from the white ones!

My luck is, some wild duck has moved into the pond down the street, or in the creek that runs under the road a little further down, and thought my neighbor's junky pole barns would work for their eggs, too. But I'm betting my chickens probably ran the duck out (Brownie is hell on eight claws within the area she deems HER territory), and it probably won't be back now.
 
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carcar80 said:
I've always heard snakes like to lay their eggs with chickens so the hen will incubate for them.

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Maybe. But snake eggs are usually soft and leathery. These are hard.

But there is some kinda-bad news. I candled them and several of the eggs (including two white ones) had "settle rot" on them. That's what I call it when they sit in one spot for too long without incubation, and begin to rot right against the shell where it touches the ground, and that creates VERY dark spots all over the inside about the size of a pencil eraser. I tend to find one or two like that when I discover a nest they've kept hidden for a while. That means these eggs were laid closer to the beginning of the 2-3 weeks that it went without being checked/discovered. So whatever laid them is almost definitely gone now.

There is one white one that may be okay, but the yolk appears to be darker. So there's a very strong chance it may not develop at all. Either way, as soon as the dishwasher is done, I'll set up the incubator and give them all a run-through and see what happens.
 
I was of course kidding ;) Just a little joke my friends used to like to make when I'd stalk Mama duck for eggs lol.

That stinks about them looking yucky though. Maybe you'll be surprised.
 
My layers: I have four. And they keep me in the perfect amount of eggs: plenty for what we need, plus a few dozen a month to give away.

So when do I need to start raising replacements? Now? My oldest is Olive.. She's entering her second year of laying and her eggs, which used to be about as dark as a lighter Marans egg, have lightened drastically over the last week. :( Does this mean anything?

I would REALLY like to get a couple BR pullets, but not sure it's time yet, supply-wise.
 
So I went to pick up my new chicks! I got an Olive Egger, a Black Copper Marans and a blue egg laying Easter Egger (she called an Ameraucana) but it lacks the "correct" coloring, so is, therefore, an EE to me. She comes from a line of blue egg layers. Here is a photo of the chicks. She also gave me 5 free hatching eggs. Two BCM and 3 that will be a cross between the BCM and the Olive Egger, so they should give me really really dark greenish/brown eggs. (That is, if they hatch and if they are girls!)
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Photo is the one the lady had and iis what the eggs look like! I got three eggs like the bottom right to hatch and one chicken that will lay that color and 2 eggs like the top right to hatch and one chick that will lay that color eggs! And then the blue egg layer! I love babies and I love colored eggs! So much fun!


My three new babies!
 

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