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Post by **WLLady** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:22 am

well, if no one hears from me by monday morning, come and save me because i'll have glued myself to something i should not have LOL.

hayladee · Post by **hayladee** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:41 am

Well no baby calves yet BUT....as I sat here at the computer I could swear I heard peeping coming from the little brinsea 15 feet away....fingers crossed! (mostly to keep them from opening the bator and holding an egg to my ear!) Went down in the basement and checked the little giant bator and eeeggaddds....temp up at 103* ....did I fry them??? Don't know what happened, has been holding great at 100 for almost 2 weeks. Oh well...candled a couple and don't know what I'm seeing so that was pointless. Off to recheck heifers then DD called and suggested an early lunch in town....then a quick trip the the Vanity Fair Outlets, DD said she got "ROCK 47" jeans for the girls for $4 a pair yesterday.....and they have birthdays coming soon! later all, Hay

hayladee · Post by **hayladee** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:43 am

WLLady wrote:QR_BBPOST well, if no one hears from me by monday morning, come and save me because i'll have glued myself to something i should not have LOL.

Reminds me of a funny story I read a while back about some lady's first time experience with "waxing".....lol!

ross · Post by **ross** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:50 am

Pics Kathy ...,hahahaha Luck
Flat end of toothpicks works Kathy . Able to rub in groove & on roll . Luck

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 11:30 am

Cornish will go right up to hatch day and just not pip, much better hatch under a hen.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:08 pm

the Dark Cornish carries the lethal gene... heres an abstract from a scientific paper... Kathy you should be able to get access to these full publications in your line of work. I dont think you will ever have very good success with them. get the white cornish instead...

Abstract

Summary Shortness of the extremities in Dark Cornish fowls appears to be determined by several genetic factors, probably more than one of these being dominant over the long-legged condition. In short-legged Cornish tibia and tarsometatarsus are most strikingly shortened. The fibula is better developed than in ordinary chickens. One of the factors concerned in shortening of the long bones is lethal in homozygous condition. The lethal embryos die just before the end of the incubation period or are still living at hatching time but are unable to hatch. They show a striking shortening of the extremities. This lethal mutation is genetically independent of the Creeper mutation.

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... rnish_fowl

Post by **WLLady** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:14 pm

So if hets are not lethal then at worst case het x het will give 1/4 dead but 3/4 live and 1/4 of all eggs will be non carrier chicks. So 3/4 should hatch. So from 4 eggs 1 is dead from homozygotic gene state. 2 will be carriers but alive...and 1 will be non carrier. Theres no way i get 3/4 of my eggs to hatch in an incubator. I need some of ross' broody moms

I will pull the full paper later today...if this is the case then we should be able to see a gene linkage and maybe just by one generation outbreed to maybe a non-dark cornish can improve them?? Hm...

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:24 pm

If anyone can figure it out its you Kathy! haha good luck! LOL

Post by **WLLady** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 2:47 pm

Well final count. 2 bronze x red slate turkey poults, 2 dark cornish chicks and 4 royal palm poults. Sideways of course-the rare antigravity poults....

SandyM · Post by **SandyM** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 2:55 pm

This is a concern to me. But apparently it the franken chicken, feathering has been bred down so plucking is easier. These birds stunk! My eyes and sinuses burned in a huge barn area. This is mercy for animals whole motivation, birds that look like this. Maybe it is just the breed. Very hard to look at and not feel your stomach twist anyways. But really they weren't covered in

. But birds taken care of don't smell like this.

Scratched Frank's off my list. And after reading what I read, scratch Cornish off my list too. Oddly enough I feel like salad for dinner