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    February/March Grow-a-long

    Look for their saddle feathers and wing feathers that are coming in. I've heard it called leakage on here.
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    February/March Grow-a-long

    Yup. Barnyard mix does make it tough as some breeds have a bigger comb, etc. Hard to know what parantage they are picking up. Behavior helps too. Mine that was slow to feather was really small at first but acted confrontational from the start. He was also a lighter color chick than the one...
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    February/March Grow-a-long

    Sadly you look like you broke the average in cockerels.I agree except I think Cuprous is a cockerel because his wings are slow to feather in (I had one like that) and his big legs. Sad because he looks like a beautiful bird. I question Chweeper (lean towards pullet) and Dib.
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    March 2023 hatch-a-long

    Thanks for answering, I completely understand. Something wasn't right if they weren't eating.
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    March 2023 hatch-a-long

    If you don't mind me asking, what was wrong with the 3 you needed to cull? I thought 2 were shrink wrapped, but was there something else wrong? Just asking for educational (mine) purposes. That little black one is so cute!!!! My olive eggers were small like that because they came from pullet...
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    March 2023 hatch-a-long

    Yay! So glad your stargazer is better and that the lonely chick now has friends!
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    March 2023 hatch-a-long

    U Uh oh, the stargazer doesn't have wry neck does it?! Or was it just the picture?
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    March 2023 hatch-a-long

    Can you tell you pullet vs cockerel chicks apart? I saw something where the lady was saying that barred chick females have a more defined head spot and males are lighter and have a longer and more diffused spot. Do you see that with Dominiques?
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    question on egg color genetics (and possible feather color)

    I don't remember which post on here I got it from, but I downloaded two great charts on this. I better not post them because they aren't mine, but do a search and you should find them. If you do an out of forum search, one chart says CCL Farms and the other HeadFamilyFarm.com
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    looking for a few cream legbar hatching eggs to be shipped

    I got mine from Greenfire Farms (Rees line) and she is a really great layer of minty/light olive green eggs. She lays about 4 to 5 medium sized eggs a week and her daughter, my Olive Egger lays the same but hers are already edging up towards large sized. They both started laying at right...
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    March 2023 hatch-a-long

    Early. I had one like that and it was a cockerel. Out of the three in that hatch it was the least nice. He was the one you can see down in the left corner. The other two on the bar were cockerels too. Seemed to like being up on the bar where they could watch what was going on. Another FCM...
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    March 2023 hatch-a-long

    She's beautiful! Maybe she is just a throwback to a slower developing heritage type.
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    March 2023 hatch-a-long

    I think as humans we are, generally, wired to try to make things better but we don't always understand what is truly better in nature. Sometimes better is to let nature take its course but it is so HARD to do that. I'm guilty of intervening myself, especially if I think my actions had some...
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    March 2023 hatch-a-long

    Poor thing is going to be lonely until the next ones hatch. Any chicks at your local farm store you can add to give her company? Mine usually has some this time of year.
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    March 2023 hatch-a-long

    Here's hoping that your late bloomer makes it!
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