Recent content by inquisitivebird

@SunnySky I would love to know how to maket his variety of Orpington. I'm currently working on a few Orpington projects in New Zealand.

I've just installed coop lighting for my chickens about 2 weeks ago. We are heading into winter here in New Zealand. I haven't had any eggs yet, but last night the power went out and came back on after the sun was up. My question is, how will that affect my hens? Will power cuts like this make...

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No, the speckled Sussex had a straight comb. Shes unfortunately no longer alive. I don't have a photo of her. Why do you ask that?

I crossed my rescued farm brown shaver hens with my purebred lavender araucana rooster. I have hatched around 2 dozen eggs from this cross. All the chicks are black down with an orangey face. This is ehat I expected because lavender is recessive underneath lavender is black. However, I did get...

Yeah, I thought so. Neither parent has legs kike that. She is my son's favourite. My son is 7. I think he named her fire lilly or something like that.

Sure, mine all turned out black, some had break through mottling with a few white tipped feathers: and about 1 out of 4 turned out like this: But most were just black, ignore the blue rooster:

My question is: can i call a gold laced wyandottes created from a sex link cross, a pure gold laced wyandotte? Or is that misleading? Would someone wanting to breed glw happily use a such pullet to make more glw with a glw rooster? Also, if i use a blue laced silver hen in the cross, will that...

The silver and gold traits are found on the chromosomes that also determine sex. There are lots of chromosomes. So if you know what traits are on the sex chromosomes you can manipulation the cross so you know which colour is which sex. When you do this, you create sex-linked chicks with...

Wow, this is really interesting. I have heard and read many times about how gold laced roosters mated ro silver laced hens will make a sex link chick. You can do this with other gold silver pairs to make a sex link but the babies are hybrids. But with wyandottes they would still be wyandottes...

This is great info, it means i could easily raise pullets only and sell pure wyandottes.

No, I don't have room for that. We do have a place on the farm where I put fully grown roosters and hens I'm not actively breeding from, but that I don't want to get rid of, but when I've put younger birds down there they get eaten by hawks. I do go throw them a handful now and then, and they do...

Yes, I do that sometimes but it's quite expensive meat. I prefer to cull them as soon as I know they are boys to save the feed costs.

Clementine looks like a cream legbar.

Good information thank you, so I know the roosters will be crosses and will not be desirable, since they will be carrying the gold, but would I be able to call the hens pure gold laced and blue laced gold? Could I then breen them to a gold laced rooster and they would breed true?