We have several milles we will be selling as soon as the weather cools. Year old hens, some extras from this year's hatch and some frizzle milles! Will post some pix as soon as my glasses unfog. . . .
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Aggghhhhh! Just got home today from a long doctor's appt. and find my bator FULL of eggs (due to lockdown tomorrow) was 118º!!! Every one of those babies was dead. I had over a dozen MFCs in there as well as 18 wheaten Ameraucanas and a bunch of black and white cochins. I did open the MFCs...
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Whew! Glad they all arrived safe and sound. Fingers crossed for a good hatch!
Here are two new ones @ 5 days old, anyone know what up with the yellow wings??
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Uhhhh. . . . I have a MF hen named Millie, too . . . . .
Me, too. And her sister is Callie (in case you didn't guess, she's a "calico" MF).
I'll remember that if/when I hatch a calico. . . great minds and all that . . .
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Uhhhh. . . . I have a MF hen named Millie, too . . . . .
Where is Lennon? I'm origionally from Blissfield. Oklahoma is nice, but Michigan is where my heart is.
What?? You've never heard of Lennon? We have a stop light, but it is always set to blinker. They tore down the second bar...
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Ooh-La-La, that is the best type I have ever seen in MFC's! WOW!!
Thanks! I'm happy with the way those little girls are coming along. They are only 5 months old, and my older ones just get better type as they age. They are also much slower feathering than my white cochins, I'm...
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MFC's are feather sexable? I thought it was so complicated... you had to have a fast feathering bird x slow feathering bird... not that anyone could tell whaich breeds qualified as either. I didn't even try to feather sex my little Splash x MF cochin chick as a result She (i hope)...
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We have a little yellow chick from Lynne's eggs too. I hope it turns out to be a beautiful pullet like yours. It's only a week old so I have no idea what it is yet. Out of 12 babies this was the only yellow. The others were variations on chipmunk and black...
Lynne, I hatched 3 babies from you last winter, 2 cockerels and a pullet. The pullet (by Fernando) is now gorgeously marked and was the absolutely cutest chick ever:
The two boys (by Sergio) feathered out identical to your Rojo. Here is a photo of one of them at 7 weeks:
This is last fall...