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If you have been setting bantam eggs all of these hatches it may not be your counting that is off. I have read several people's accounts of bantam eggs hatching a day earlier than their LF eggs.

This is cool looking bird!

If I am remembering right, willow colored legs are acceptable in Auracanas. The Ameraucanas try to breed that color out but it crops up every now and then despite their efforts. Your light colored legs look greenish to me.

I just got to say this Bantambury, If you don't pursue photography at least as a serious hobby (i.e. make some money at it) you will be throwing away an amazing talent. You are especially good at photographing animals. You should see if you can interest people in the 4H programs to have their...

I will be hatching some Bantam Welsummers, some OE, either Huastec or Breda depending on my money flow at the time. I am wanting to get some Barnaucana eggs from Chickensmart and if Donna hasn't sold all her Crested SBELs some of them. Oh and maybe some Cortunix quail. And I have a couple of...

I found that out too. Did it the first time because I had a cut on my hand and was out of bandaids. Really helps when you have to deal with water and you inevitably (at least me) get your hands wet.

I have noticed that Aquarians can always spot one another moreso than the other signs spot each other. By the way the Breda were a very popular chicken before the Civil War. They were known as Guelderlands or Guelders (it's the region in Europe that they were from). The devastation of the Civil...

Are you an Aquarius? I am and that is me. Always need the unusual and amazing. You need some Breda chickens. That would give you your white egg layer. They have no comb. Here in the U.S. they only come in Blue/Black/Splash but in Europe they have Cuckoo, White and another color that I am...

There are also Bielfelders, Isbars (though it is not as distinct as the others).

Yes and if you give the one group chlorinated water you will kill their natural probiotics and not be replenishing them with anything. If you give them unchlorinated water then they will have their natural probiotic content undisturbed.

I'd be right there with you but I am waiting on my new thermostat. NO MORE SPIKES!!!

Or the de-chlorinated water is somewhat limiting the pasting. This is the only problem I see with your set up. They either need to be all on de-chlorinated water or on chlorinated water for you to be sure that it is only the probiotics or FF providing the benefit. I think this is very important...

Trick to getting "true" color. Take you picture then in your photo program adjust several of the options until you get the color looking like the egg you are holding in your hand. Some of these options are exposure, saturation, tint, shadows, highlights, sharpness (more in feather pictures than...

I think Hurricane Katrina and the plight of New Orleans woke up some people to the fact that it is not just Hollywood for a large area to be in crisis. Having some level of self reliance like a local food source can mitigate the situations like that. There are more and more respectable people...

I could do that. Now I am thinking about doing it myself. That is so cool. Hey maybe I should rent myself out to BYCers to paint stuff like this for them. I could always take partial payment in eggs!

She obvioiusly has never seen the damage they are capable of. My mother told me when she was a kid on the farm they were roused one night to the chickens screaming bloody murder. They ran out to the coop to find that a possom had a hen half eaten and she was still alive because it had started...

Do live near a city with a zoo? If so call the zoo and ask who they use for their birds. Usually the only vets who bother to learn about birds are those that want to work for zoos. One exception that I know of is a vet whose brother is big into chickens (I think he may be on BYC) and when he has...

I wouldn't put them directly into it. Someone on here has built an outdoor brooder I remember seeing it. Some people have built a grow out pen in their garages or under their carports. Even with full feathers they still have small mass and heat dissipates from small bodies faster. I would see if...

Well it is 2:45 above Nashville TN and 4˚ with one more degree to drop. (BTW if anyone is wondering how to make the degree symbol: Press the Alt button and then the K button. I remember which one it is because the science world uses a third temperature scale called Kelvin to measure extremely...

Sounds like it might be peritonitis. If their was a flaw in the formation of the gut and fecal matter escaped into the abdominal cavity peritonitis can set in.