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    Chicken tractors and hurricanes

    Not sure if you'll get this! Being is Architecture we have to design buildings to Miami-Dade here in Coastal SC because a playing deck of cards can in Hurricane winds be pushed into wood half the card depth. That same card could kill a person because of soft tissue. This is NOT the norms just...
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    Chickens sneezing for months

    Question: if you activate the Oxine what do you do with the chickens till it's safe for them to be near the coop? And how far away for their safety? My run is attached to the coop so they would have to be moved away.
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    Chickens sneezing for months

    Did you ever resolve the sneezing? I'm curious to know as a few of mine are doing the same thing as you've described and are also not sick.
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    Do I want to learn about genetics? Yes. Is it very intimidating and scary? Yes.

    How much space will depend on if my husband agrees to my doing 2 lines and a 2nd coop would be nice. I'm still waiting to find out if I have any additional boys in my batch of babies...im fairly sure I have the Marans nailed down as 1 girl (blue copper) & 1 boy (wheaten). My 2 Ameraucanas not...
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    Do I want to learn about genetics? Yes. Is it very intimidating and scary? Yes.

    I can get a Splash Marans Hen for some added genetic diversity but someone said that could be a bad idea.
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    Do I want to learn about genetics? Yes. Is it very intimidating and scary? Yes.

    Would the leaking blues from the first cross be good to cross back to the blue copper hen to get more blue coppers? Just asking as a thought.... I think that's the only 2 chickens I have to work with as for pure breed Marans. My Ameraucanas im still wating to figure if I have 2 hens or not....if...
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    Do I want to learn about genetics? Yes. Is it very intimidating and scary? Yes.

    They don't have copper so I'm guessing they may cross with the birchin line or it's just pure splash now from a BBS line originally.
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    Do I want to learn about genetics? Yes. Is it very intimidating and scary? Yes.

    The splash I know are from a different line...no copper....and they were hatched this past spring. My friend said the eggs were small. But I think that's because of the feed they were using. I suggest they switch because that fixed my girls from their small eggs. I just have to figure out how im...
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    Do I want to learn about genetics? Yes. Is it very intimidating and scary? Yes.

    Question.... (Sorry if this has been asked) If I cross a Wheaten Marans Roo to a Blue Copper Marans Hen can I work toward Blue Wheaten? I was told the project should look like this... F1 Wheaten Marans Roo to a Blue Copper Marans Hen BC1 Leaky Blue Hen Back to Dad BC2 Blue Wheaten Hen Back to...
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    Cinnamon Queen questions: health, longevity, temperament etc

    What mix are your CQ's? Just asking as Mine are from Hoover and will be 2 End of Feb 2025. 1 of mine is a Broody Momma. She went broody the 1st time at 5 months old! So, I really don't want to loose her anytime soon!
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    How long do hybrids live for?

    Hoover has Production Rhode Island Reds life span 5-7 years. I have their Cinnamon Queen chickens and Feb. 27th 2025 they will be 2 years old. In my research; after the fact because Our girls were not what we ordered originally; life expectance is listed 4 to 7 years. I'm assuming its because of...
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    What does a broody hen do with her chicks in the first week after they hatch?

    My broody is on her 2 bunch of chicks. Her first bunch were 3 Roos last fall. This time the babies (all girls - I bought them that way & she adopted) got out of the coop before she was ready when they were 9 days old. day 10 we had to put her and all 7 babies back inside the coop at night...
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    how many feeders?

    We use a 5 gallon bucket with 5 port holes for our girls to get food. we currently have 9 hens and I have 5 more baby girls coming mid August (if I don't add any before the drop0 dead date!). I was wondering about adding a second bucket when they get full grown. we have a small 2.5 gallon...
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    Ameraucana genetics question

    Mine was not true Silver. he had green legs which is proof, so to speak, of an EE so somewhere in his genetic background there'd been a cross and the breeder I got the eggs from just kept breeding his dad and mom together and they must have had the same genes cause he looks just like his dad...
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    Welsummer sexing

    How does he look now?
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