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I've been working on these birds since early 2014 so 9 years total. I started with Silver Laced Wyandottes from [Jerry foley](http://www.foleyswaterfowl.com/) and blue egg laying brown leghorns with straight comb from Keith Bramwell at UARK. There were some really big genetic reasons for using...

Polly - one of the group - laid her first egg yesterday. It is shown beside a 72 gram blue egg laid by my Silver Laced Wyandottes.

If you have ever been through a fox taking your chickens, you have a good idea how they operate. They have a typical stalking sequence where they hide behind objects in the landscape, get within 30 feet of their target, rush out and grab a chicken, then run immediately back to shelter in the...

I had 10 turkey poults a week old in a container with a heat bulb, feeder, and waterer. The water ran out and they were dry for about 24 hours. I put in a quart of cold water and by cold, I'm talking about 50F or thereabouts. The turkeys promptly drank as much as they could and then 3 of them...

I will be shipping a package of feathers to Justus Liebig University in Germany Monday for DNA tests for the blue egg gene (oocyanin). Here are the steps and costs so far. These steps are a bit convoluted and I am going to post in detail so be prepared for a LONG set of steps. I am taking...

I'm curious if anyone has ocellated turkeys in the U.S. other than a couple of zoos. John Voris in CA had them until he passed away several years ago. There are articles indicating they were used to make hybrids back in the 1950's. 1. Difficult to raise, not adapted to cold climate areas at...

There is a ton of discussion about egg color genetics on this forum. It is about 80% right, but that leaves a LOT of errors being stated. Here are some points for discussion. All chicken eggs start out as white. This is based on the color of the calcium based eggshell. White egg color is a...

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