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Does anyone know the current contact info for NPIP testing in the Gainesville/Ocala area?

Hmm, if I can't tell easily if they are single barred it may not work out after all. I guess I'll have to find out the hard way. ;) Thank you for the photos!

I'm fully aware of how lavender, the barring gene, and sex linking works. I just need to know if lavender barred chicks are distinguishable from solid lavender chicks. I did some snooping and found her project thread. Looks promising, thank you!

I heard back from GQF and they advised me that on the 1502 model the center tray has to be removed to accommodate the larger setting trays, so only two will fit. This is due to the closer spacing of the trays on this model to make room for the hatching tray below.

I'm working through a plan for a project to attempt to create lavender sex links. Can anyone tell me if barring on lavender is visible enough to differentiate solid chicks from barred chicks at a reasonably young age? I'm concerned that the dilution via lavender will make the barring difficult...

Does anyone use a 1502 sportsman to incubate their emu eggs? I just got one and I know I need to get the large egg setting trays but how many will fit? Do I just replace all three trays or does that not leave enough room between them, requiring only two? The capacity specs on the GQF website...

I'd say the silkie and orp are roosters, EE is a hen.

I'm looking for a pair or trio of buff silkies in the Gainesville/Ocala area. Any local breeders have adults available?

I have used frontline drops on my chickens before for mites/lice/fleas etc. Does anyone know if it is safe to use on emus?

Nope, I culled a lot of birds to cut down my numbers and kept only the blacks, then lost them all before I got any chicks out of them. Very frustrating.

Yep blacks are the baseline for branching out into other colors. The last of my silkied birds were all blacks, as I was working toward making splits to lavender and wheaten. Now I have some really nice lavenders and wheatens with no silkied birds to cross them to.

Hey everyone, I haven't been around here in forever! I wish I had more to report on my silkied project. Life got in the way for a while and I haven't produced any in long time, then in the past 2 weeks lost my last silkied birds. If anyone has eggs available for sale, please keep me in...

Yep, have lots available and more coming every day!

This is a Buy-It-Now listing. Please PM if interested. Eggs can ship Wednesday 3/27 or later. Shipping is included in the BIN price! The ladies are laying and my bator is still full! The flock consists of all lavender birds, so no splits from these eggs! Lavender/self blue is not yet...

If anyone is interested in hatching eggs, I should have some out of my olive eggers as well as my lavender, wheaten, and BBS silked Ameraucanas that I can bring.

I think that is still more of a lingering issue than the fertility/hatching problems. I haven't lost any of mine in a while, so they do seem to be getting stronger as new blood is added through outcrossing.

I have quite good hatch rates on mine here at home, no different from my other flocks. Crossing them out seems to have really improved this issue. I think most of the hatching problems were from eggs out of the original pair or their direct offspring before any new blood was added.

For sale, 12+ hatching eggs from my BBS silkied Ameraucanas. These are pure Ameraucanas, not Silkie crosses. My current flock consists of a blue silked rooster over blue hens. Some of the hens are silkied and some are splits, so you will hatch some splits from these eggs and the chicks can be...

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Up for auction, 12+ hatching eggs from my BBS silkied Ameraucanas. These are pure Ameraucanas, not Silkie crosses. My current flock consists of a blue silked rooster over blue hens. Some of the hens are silkied and some are splits, so you will hatch some splits from these eggs and the chicks...