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    8 Month Old Barred Rock Rooster

    8 month old barred rock rooster free to good home in Bellingham, WA. He's been such a good boy, but he's become very protective of his hens. He would be ideal for a free-range flock as he is very big and an excellent protector. He only attacks when someone is messing with his girls, but this...
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    Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

    We do... It's called the One You Like Best is Probably a Rooster test.
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    Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

    Well, we don't breed them for docility. We breed them for looks and virility and fierceness.
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    Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

    Nambroth, Trousers may well be quite a bit smarter than your hens. I read somewhere that roosters are significantly smarter than hens; there's a survival advantage in them being smart... it helps them bribe hens for mating privileges and be canny when herding and protecting their flock. Hens...
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    I think one of my eggs is starting to hatch... is this normal?

    aw, so sweet!
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    I think one of my eggs is starting to hatch... is this normal?

    If the babies can breathe, I wouldn't bother them yet.
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    I think one of my eggs is starting to hatch... is this normal?

    If it's pipping near the pointy end, it may be turned around. They're supposed to pip into the air sac at the fat end. I might just put a little tear in the membrane so it can start breathing. I'm not an experienced hatcher, though. Do you see a beak?
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    I need some advice please

    I feed eggshells too, and if you crush them up to around the size of the oyster shell flakes, they don't even look like eggs anymore. I haven't had a hen try to eat an egg yet.
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    Thermometers

    Thanks. I'm using a Little Giant still air incubator and it already has a thermostat of sorts, but I understand that they can be prone to temperature spikes. I was hoping that the alarm function on the probe thermometer could be used to prevent cooked chicks. So it's not a thermostat at...
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    Thermometers

    Hey, has anyone used a digital probe thermometer (culinary type) for hatching? It seems like you could just put the probe in the incubator and set an alarm to go off if the temperature gets to high. My understanding is that most of them are thermacouple based; would they be accurate enough to...
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    First time Incubating

    Hey, all. We lost some hens to a raccoon and are considering replacing them by hatching some babies. We've never incubated before and we have an old-fashioned styrofoam incubator that we can borrow. Here's my question: I know humidity is important, and we live in Western Washington, and the...
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    If you could import...

    I noted the reasonableness of the price in my post, but I don't know where their stock is coming from, how it's being handled, or bred. Given the option, I'd love to import directly.
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    If you could import...

    Poulet du Bresse, hands down. I would love to bypass Greenfire, which as far as I know is the only place selling them, and they're going for a mint (which I think is totally reasonable, but still).
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    Strange chicken noises

    I have one that makes a near constant high pitched whining that sounds worried. I have another that ROARS REALLY LOUDLY. Both also cluck... but the noises they make are so distinct, I can usually tell them apart by their voices. I think chickens often have distinctive vocal tones and tics just...
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    The Aloha Chicken Project

    Just because the french marans carry the dominant feathered leg gene, right? It sounds like it might take a while to get rid of that entirely. An American marans with the leg feathers already bred out would probably be faster.
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