Day 55
Husband has volunteered to make 100 cupcakes for the bake sale at our showchoir competition this weekend (we're the host school). My house smells amazing!
Buff Plymouth Rocks are gold based, so roosters can be used over a silver based hen to create red sex links. They are non-barred, so the roosters can also be used over a barred hen for black sex links.
Sex links work because of a dominant gene found on the male sex chromosome. Male chicken sex...
Day 52 53, not only did I not get a new picture today, apparently I forgot to post yesterday's late last night before going to bed!
So here's a picture of the party in my lap yesterday morning with Tony, Amara and Julius.
Mostly easter egger mixes. All of the chicks in that picture have at least 1 malines parent. I was taking a picture to illustrate the variety of shades blue can be (all of the blue chicks hatched out of a green egg) with a single black chick (front) for comparison. this one shows the range of...
Oh yeah, I think the Easter hatchalong is the biggest one of the year! I want to say most of the official hatchalongs include about 1-2 weeks on either side of the target hatch date.