It will be interesting to see how he turns out.
Last year we built the kidding room. It has 2 stalls, a small play yard, and a small loafing area. This year we expanded it so that we can have 2 stalls for does getting ready for birthing, have hay storage, and a larger kid pen. With Bob's crazy hours, we had to work hard and fast to get things put together.
This is the milking parlor (right), the kidding barn (center) and Bob's workshop (far left). The expansion project is between Bob's workshop and the kidding barn.
Here's a closer look at what we're doing...
Friday evening we began work....and by Sunday evening it was nearly done. While Bob was busy working on the new barn expansion..
Lexi was busy laboring in her stall...
By noon Sunday Lexi gave birth to twin boys, Queenacres Fine Future and Queenacres Fotocopy Faze....
Meanwhile, Bob got the building shell finished. It's got a roof and walls and it's what we needed to accomplish for the weekend. It looks like we will be able to store 20+ bales of alfalfa hay in there...
This morning we got the new expansion primed....if the primer dries we'll get it painted today before this cold front hits....
While we're watching paint dry.....little barn princess Fiona gave her approval to the stack of fresh hay in the barn...
And Nommy did what she does best....eat...
4 comments:
Looks good! Congrats on the turkeys hatching! That's wonderful!
Congrats on the add on and the babies!!
I'm sure Steven will want to draw out some punnett squares on those turkey poults to see how you got little blondie :)
Great post. You're certainly keeping busy!
So here's the fun Steven had looking up your one unusual poult, to see which parent cross it may be:
Bourbon Red (b+b+rr) x Narragansett (b+b+n-) = b+b+RrNn males (Bronze-red split silver(n)) and b+b+ RrN females (Bronze-red)
Bourbon Red (b+b+rr) x Royal Palm (blblcgcgnn) = b+blRrCcgNn males (Bronze-red split: Palm(cp) Bronze(b+) Darkwinged Bronze(bl) Silver(n)) and b+blRrCcgN females (Bronze-red split: Palm(cp) Bronze(b+) Darkwinged Bronze(bl))
All the poults from the Bourbon Red x Bourbon Red should be of course, Bourbon Red.
So, all the poults from the other two crosses should give you a Bronze-red colored adult(masking various other genes) but that one poult doesn't look like a bronze-red poult picture that I pulled up on the internet. Either one of the sources I used when looking up the genotypes is wrong, or you've got other genes in play — I would guess ‘B’ (black) as that seems to be the only gene I've seen which makes the whole poult a darker color, maybe ‘e’ (brown/chocolate). Could be some of your birds are Bb+ or maybe even BB(if recessive red is masking it). You'd need to make a back cross (assuming it's a hen) to know for sure. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.
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