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dheltzel said:

blackish grey sounds like a blue Marans or Ameraucana. Male RB's have a white spot on a light brown head, often they are more caramel colored than "brown", but always with the big white spot.

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chippysmom327 said:

She was back this morning, which is AWESOME, we were all thrilled as that usually doesn't end well around here.

Thanks for the reassurance. I don't know what I'll do as for the hatching chicks and everything. The *only* thing that she said led her to believe it was Marek's was "thickening of the sciatic and femoral nerves". She said Marek's is the only disease that does that, but she suspected it, and could never be 100% certain. That I could try treating for a B-vitamin deficiency. There were no tumors on the bird (they weren't in the report).

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AnneInTheBurbs said:

There is definitely a gray chick! I'm trying to send you a pic, but my phone is not cooperating. Will try to snap a pic later to upload. I hope it's a female blue Maran. The one that I had raised for Rose was so calm and sweet, and what a fun color! If you would like that one back because it is worth more to you, that's fine also.

. Four chicks hatched, which is pretty good consider the constant interference of the other girls in her box.

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dheltzel said:

Either blue breed, BCM or Am, makes for a very pretty bird. I hope it's a pullet, and you are welcome to keep any you like, I have plenty of both blue breeds.

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wingstone said:

Trying to be prepared if I need to give up everything at the farm.
I can not go back to buying from a store so I am trying to look up the borough codes for fowl and rabbit.
What I am finding under the Mount Joy Borough section for animals is that I can keep fowl and rabbit as long as they are caged and at least 30 feet from a residence...
Am I missing something or can I really keep a few breeding rabbits and a quail pen within the borough

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AnneInTheBurbs said:

dheltzel said:

blackish grey sounds like a blue Marans or Ameraucana. Male RB's have a white spot on a light brown head, often they are more caramel colored than "brown", but always with the big white spot.

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There is definitely a gray chick! I'm trying to send you a pic, but my phone is not cooperating. Will try to snap a pic later to upload. I hope it's a female blue Maran. The one that I had raised for Rose was so calm and sweet, and what a fun color! If you would like that one back because it is worth more to you, that's fine also. . Four chicks hatched, which is pretty good consider the constant interference of the other girls in her box.

chippysmom327 said:

She was back this morning, which is AWESOME, we were all thrilled as that usually doesn't end well around here.

Thanks for the reassurance. I don't know what I'll do as for the hatching chicks and everything. The *only* thing that she said led her to believe it was Marek's was "thickening of the sciatic and femoral nerves". She said Marek's is the only disease that does that, but she suspected it, and could never be 100% certain. That I could try treating for a B-vitamin deficiency. There were no tumors on the bird (they weren't in the report).

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Glad the Serama came back! Hope she hatches out some cuties for you.

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dheltzel said:

It is confusing to cross a Lavender and White and get black, but that is exactly what I would have predicted because white silkies (at least mine) are recessive white (as opposed to dominant white). Recessive white needs 2 copies to appear at all, especially in the chick down. Lavender birds are really black, but with a double dose of recessive blue (also called self-blue because it breeds true). Black is a very "strong" color, dominant over everything except dominant white if it exists in even 1 copy. So, with the lavender suppressed because it's recessive and not carried by the silkie, and recessive white suppressed because it's not carried by the "black" Ameraucana, you get a black bird that carries both Lavender and Recessive White, but neither show at all.

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chippysmom327 said:

Thanks! I just don't know if I should let her hatch due to the Mareks-suspected diagnosis. I'm actually starting to lean towards it not being Mareks the more I think about it.

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Auroradream26 said:

dheltzel said:

It is confusing to cross a Lavender and White and get black, but that is exactly what I would have predicted because white silkies (at least mine) are recessive white (as opposed to dominant white). Recessive white needs 2 copies to appear at all, especially in the chick down. Lavender birds are really black, but with a double dose of recessive blue (also called self-blue because it breeds true). Black is a very "strong" color, dominant over everything except dominant white if it exists in even 1 copy. So, with the lavender suppressed because it's recessive and not carried by the silkie, and recessive white suppressed because it's not carried by the "black" Ameraucana, you get a black bird that carries both Lavender and Recessive White, but neither show at all.

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Thanks, that helps explain a bit. It's a little confusing but I think I got it.

These are the the babies hatched so far. There are two more eggs still in the bator. One is peeping and one is wiggling. It's going to be interesting to see what colors they hatch out as. There's one more of the silkie crosses and one more of the blue marans/brahma/ameraucana crosses. These three didn't cooperate too well for pictures but that's OK.

The last picture, the one on the right is the one whose mother was 3/4 marans 1/4 buff brahma and daddy was lavender ameraucana. She looks very lavender to me right now but I know that's not possible. She has to be blue lol

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AnneInTheBurbs said:

chippysmom327 said:

Thanks! I just don't know if I should let her hatch due to the Mareks-suspected diagnosis. I'm actually starting to lean towards it not being Mareks the more I think about it.

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You know everyone here is always in favor of hatching....

Does anyone know an inexpensive place to get landscaping fabric?

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stake said:

Howdy Debby:

Yep, got the tee shirt!, I haven't been successful with trapping the PIAs, but I have been able to spot light them twice....hopefully one of these nights.....also there's a new batch of young ones...my neighbor mentioned seeing one eating dropped bird feed from under another neighbor's bird feeder....

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