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    December hatch along

    Yes, that's why it's definitely out of one of the two NN hens I mentioned :D None of the EE's are standardized colors.
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    December hatch along

    I got 4 naked necks out of the hatch total, but the blue color was a surprise! It's out of either a buff Columbian or BBRXGold Spangled NN hen, crossed with what I am *thinking* is one of my EE roos, because my other roos are Welsummers, Penedesencas, and Asian Blacks. It *could* be the Asian...
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    5 week old Partridge Cochin looks off to me

    I am probably paranoid, but I just don't feel like my two Partridge Cochin chicks are developing much of a "Cochin" look...do they look like they are supposed to? The foot feathering is so sparse!
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    December hatch along

    My december hatch resulted in 15 chicks out of 22 eggs incubated. I was testing out a new incubator so they're just a mix of my layers, but a few of them came out really pretty!
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    Nurture Right 360 Incubator Okay?

    I hatched out of this kind of incubator for the first time this month, with the chicks arriving a couple days ago! I got 15 chicks out of 22 eggs. One chick has a small foot deformity I'm inclined to blame on the auto-turner not flipping that egg...but then again, 14 chicks hatched out...
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    My new pullets from Hoovers (amberlink) and Hoovers/Tractor Supply (Sapphire Gem)

    I just ordered 10 Salmon Faverolles the same way. They arrived today with two dead inbox, but that still left me 9 due to an extra. A couple aren't looking great but I told myself when I ordered them that I would be happy if six of them made it, considering they had to go all the way to Florida...
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    Helping Muscovy ducks go broody

    Obviously not right now, but I'm in Florida and a warm Spring will be here in a few short months. What can I do to help my female Muscovy ducks to raise their own offspring? One of the reasons I chose them as my waterfowl to raise is that everyone told me they are total "mother hens". Do they...
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    Best hatchery to order chicks from?

    I ordered from Ideal last Spring, I'm in Florida, so it was a Texas-to-Florida route. Chicks left Wednesday,, middle of the day, arrived on Friday 7am healthy and all members accounted for. The South overall tends to be warmer and I like the idea of chicks moving across the southern states...
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    What are your five favorite breeds and why

    1. Welsummers - In first place because they have the whole package - Beautiful, unusual eggs, sweet, gentle personalities without being pushovers and/or stupid, you can sex most at hatching, they have a great ability to free range, beautiful, lustrous feathers, and mix well with other birds...
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    Vote on chickens I should take to show -it's for experience, they're all "bad" but I would love help

    I'm going to that one (just as a spectator) :).
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    Rare breed hatching eggs and chicks

    Anything available at the moment?
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    Vote on chickens I should take to show -it's for experience, they're all "bad" but I would love help

    I think I have misrepresented myself! Even at the pinnacle of "success" I have no designs on going to out of state poultry shows EVER...just showing locally, a breed I LIKE (not a breed I pick to be successful in shows with) with decent-quality birds, when the local shows come around. Having...
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    Vote on chickens I should take to show -it's for experience, they're all "bad" but I would love help

    The Sunshine Classic only has classes of Large Fowl or Bantam. The State Fair does Best of Breed, and Layer, and then best of classes.
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    Vote on chickens I should take to show -it's for experience, they're all "bad" but I would love help

    Thanks! I did try with the standards, and that is how I narrowed it down to these guys...the problem becomes I am just too inexperienced to differentiate "moderately feathered shanks" from "tightly feathered" and/or what it means when it specifies "defined thighs" :p
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    Vote on chickens I should take to show -it's for experience, they're all "bad" but I would love help

    PLEASE don't send hate my way if I am breaking some purist poultry show-er law:bow. I have no fantasies of grandeur. Just a chicken girl trying to step up her poultry game a little ;) Disclaimer done...here goes: I am entering a few of my chickens in two shows in Florida this January/February. I...
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