The Poultry Keeper

debcat · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: Minorcas

thread for Minorca's

Hen-Gen · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that.

nigel · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:19 am Post subject:

Have to say I love minorca and if anyone is willing (or knows anyone that would be) to attempt posting eggs to Sweden I'd love to hear from you

Hen-Gen · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:41 pm Post subject:

Picked up three very nice Minorca pullets yesterday to go with the two hens I already had. Introduced them to my Black Hamburgh X Minorca cockerel. Two or three years time hope to have a strain of rose comb Minorcas which seem to have died out.

Hen-Gen · Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject:

So, seven months on!
Twenty six chicks hatched and only four of them rosecomb. Top guy from Australia informs me that though half should be rosecomb, the sperm carrying the rosecomb gene are less viable and often get beaten in the race to fertilise the egg. So this time keep the females and mate to a single comb male then I will get half of each.
I live and learn!!! Sad

fairislefaerie · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 542

Good luck ! and erm... remember & mark your possible Roo's at hatching....

Says she who bought the rings & now has 4 buff sussex bantam chicks & cannot remember who came from what egg.

Angela

mojo · Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject:

and they laughed at me when i said keep records!!!!!!!!!!

Hen-Gen · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 9:20 am Post subject:

Dumped all mine when I converted to cd's mojo! Very Happy

fairislefaerie · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 542

I keep written records, but these guys hatched over night & all of them refused to tell me which egg they came out of.

Angela