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    Anyone know about deathlayer chicks?

    My babies started laying the last 3 days! The one male is silver and one of the girls turns out to be a spitzhauben. She is so cute! 3 death layer girls. All gorgeous birds.
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    Anyone know about deathlayer chicks?

    I think the color is just the color. Yellow is probably a silver Deathlayer. I have golden. They're 3 weeks old and one has a feather mowhawk...no comb that I can see yet. Thinking that may be my roo. But this is my first clutch of Deathlayers, so I'm not sure yet.
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    5 week old Deathlayer, cockerel?

    My golden Deathlayers are 3 weeks and one of them has, what looks like, a tiny feather howhawk. Thinking that's the only boy. 😁 The all black one is my mixed breed that I hatched here. The Death layers are all the others.
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    Deathlayer gender

    Sweet! Yeah, I check behinds and love on them some every day. I have daddy out with the flock and two cockerels that are his boys in a smaller run/coop. I hope there are no boys in these Deathlayers. I have one, too many, as it is.
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    Deathlayer gender

    We just got 6 Deathlayers last night. Hatched the day before last night. I'm watching and waiting to see what differences emerge. I read the girls have almost zero comb, but it's way too early. They claim it doesn't take very long, after hatch, to know.
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    All but ONE hatchling has died

    A friend at church sent me a link to a lady who raises different kinds of exotic chickens and she sold us 6 Deathlayers. She was only 30 minutes away, too! The name is from a German word that basically means an egg a day for life. They can live 10 years! I'm so happy and my baby bird has a...
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    All but ONE hatchling has died

    I got it out here, with me. Lol. I'm working right now so I can't do much. But the TV in the background seems to calm it. It's still in the brooder box, but it can see and hear me now.
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    All but ONE hatchling has died

    Sweet. Our local places don't have chicks this time of year. I put a mirror and a stuffed fuzzy chick thing in there, under the brooder plate. I go in and love on it every so often, so it's not completely lonely. It's only a few days old right now. Just will wait and see how it goes. I...
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    All but ONE hatchling has died

    Thanks.
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    All but ONE hatchling has died

    Again. None of mine have ever been broody. They get electrolytes on the first 3 days, no vitamins until after that, and nobody around here has babies unless it's early spring. None of our "chicken friends" have babies right now.
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    All but ONE hatchling has died

    The local places only sell them in early spring. None of our friends have any hatchlings. I only know 3 families and talk to them every week. None around us.
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    All but ONE hatchling has died

    ???
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    All but ONE hatchling has died

    No. Not one of my girls have gone broody in three years. That's why my husband got me the incubator. 🫤
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    All but ONE hatchling has died

    Kinda the things I was thinking. Mirror, new chicks, etc...it has a brooder plate that it can sleep under. I just feel so sorry for it. All alone. Thanks for the suggestions!
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    All but ONE hatchling has died

    I never get 100% hatched. This time, only 3 of 8 eggs hatched. Now, just a few days in, and the two weak ones have died. One last night and the other, the night before last. Now one is left. It's strong! But now it's crying, all the time. I pick it up and it calms down, but chirps...
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