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6/20/12 at 12:07pm

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I am pretty sure this chick is a cross between a black copper marans and a lavender ameraucana, but not 50/50. It hatched from an olive egg, and I think I was told the dad was most likely a lavender ameraucana.

It hatched around 10 weeks ago.

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I lean towards it being a pullet- there was a total of 6 chicks hatched, and two of the boys (pure lav am and a pure bcm) are both really obviously boys. This one and a lav am are the only two I have doubts on.

Hatch Cam LIVE. Hatching 19 misc. mixed breeds http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wendywr1 Possibility of pure FBCM and GL Polish, but most likely a fun assortment of exotic mixes.

I have 25ish chickens, including legbars, coronation sussex, FBCM, polish, ameraucanas, EE and OE

http://acaptivechicken.blogspot.com

Hatch Cam LIVE. Hatching 19 misc. mixed breeds http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wendywr1 Possibility of pure FBCM and GL Polish, but most likely a fun assortment of exotic mixes.

I have 25ish chickens, including legbars, coronation sussex, FBCM, polish, ameraucanas, EE and OE

http://acaptivechicken.blogspot.com

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6/20/12 at 12:14pm

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Looks girly to me. :)

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6/20/12 at 12:17pm

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me,too.

All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, and all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God Made them all

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6/20/12 at 12:24pm

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Of all 25 chickens I own, this one is my very, very favorite, which I figured would a- make it impossible for me to be a good judge of gender and b- doom it to be a cockerel, since this breed is not what I intended to have in a rooster.

Hatch Cam LIVE. Hatching 19 misc. mixed breeds http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wendywr1 Possibility of pure FBCM and GL Polish, but most likely a fun assortment of exotic mixes.

I have 25ish chickens, including legbars, coronation sussex, FBCM, polish, ameraucanas, EE and OE

http://acaptivechicken.blogspot.com

Hatch Cam LIVE. Hatching 19 misc. mixed breeds http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wendywr1 Possibility of pure FBCM and GL Polish, but most likely a fun assortment of exotic mixes.

I have 25ish chickens, including legbars, coronation sussex, FBCM, polish, ameraucanas, EE and OE

http://acaptivechicken.blogspot.com

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6/20/12 at 12:33pm