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post #11 of 16
11/6/11 at 12:43pm

Best way is DNA sexing. As they get a little older vent sexing.

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My Heart is Broken... I miss you my Sweet Sophie Puff Diva Chicken....
Living and working on a Zoo farm - 300 plus chickens, fancy pigeons, Sebbies geese, turkey, crested ducks, peafowl, ornamental pheasant and ducks, Black swans, Egyptian geese, African Crowned Cranes, Emu, fainting goats, mini zebu, mini horses,mini donkey, alpacas, llamas, horses, 5 Great Pyrenees and a cat.
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post #12 of 16
11/11/11 at 4:24pm

Thank-You I got my DNA kit in the mail yesterday thumbsup


Edited by DeerFarmer - 11/11/11 at 4:31pm
Whitetail/Fallow Deer~6 dogs~8 Rhea~Sabastopol Geese~Peacocks White & Pied~BLRW,Butter Cups,PR Bantams,Turkens,ShowGirls,Calico & Mille Fleur,Mottled & Frizzle Cochins,D'Uccles~Ducks(Crested & Non),Blue Sweed,Welsh Harlequin,Jumbo Pekin,Buff,Rouen,Runner & Muscovy Ducks & Turkeys~I still want Exotic Pheasants~Emu & Trumpeter Swans If I can Ever afford them.
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Whitetail/Fallow Deer~6 dogs~8 Rhea~Sabastopol Geese~Peacocks White & Pied~BLRW,Butter Cups,PR Bantams,Turkens,ShowGirls,Calico & Mille Fleur,Mottled & Frizzle Cochins,D'Uccles~Ducks(Crested & Non),Blue Sweed,Welsh Harlequin,Jumbo Pekin,Buff,Rouen,Runner & Muscovy Ducks & Turkeys~I still want Exotic Pheasants~Emu & Trumpeter Swans If I can Ever afford them.
http://www.paintedmeadowsdeer.com/
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post #13 of 16
2/22/12 at 5:50pm

Updates?

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Geremiah...

American Games,Old English Game Bantams,,and a pair of Guineas

 

"There are only two things you need in life: duct tape and WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn't, use the duct tape.If it doesn't move and it should, use the WD-40."

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post #14 of 16
2/25/12 at 5:13am

Its a pied, it'll simply stay that way all the way through adulthood. Many people say they have white rheas, when in fact they are a pied if they have any bit of grey markings. True whites are purely white...no grey at all. They are now hard to find because many people have bred them with greys. But if you take two pieds and breed them, you can get pure whites and breed the grey markings out easily. I only keep what I call whites, but each one has a little grey on their necks, but they're chicks come out 100% white.

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post #15 of 16
2/25/12 at 5:17am

Vent sexing with any ratite chick is easiest when they first hatch out of the eggs and are still wet. When they get fluffy, its harder to get a good line of sight. You can do it when they are older, but someone should help hold them still. You basically do it the same way you sex a rabbit.

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post #16 of 16
2/26/12 at 10:06am

Very cute babies.  Hopefully you have a pied!  How interesting.  I had rheas here in Arizona many many years ago and now you are unable to find them here. We were only able to get the normal greys at that time.  Good luck with all your new babies!

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