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    Wet Run, low area, need your thoughts for my idea.

    You helped me with my butterball gender determination. I would like to provide an answer for rainy muddy runs and coops. I used to live in the PNW (Portland area) and it rains nonstop for like 7 months. I searched the internet for muddy run help and I was going to attempt straw. As I was trying...
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    Just a photo of a newly hatched australorp

    Have a good day! ☺️
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    9 week old BO …roo?

    Here are some reference photos to the rest. The white one is the dominant cockerel right now, I named him Salt. Butterball remains a male until we see a squat! 💚
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    Leghorn or Phoenix?

    I crossed a Phoenix hen with a black copper maran rooster and let the hen hatch only one egg because she was SO BROODY all year. The single chick 🐥 looked pretty identical to this bird.
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    Pullet or cockeral, or pullet acting like a cockeral? (I Took pics)

    God I love roosters. Nothing like a great rooster, they make your life so wild sometimes but they make great stories too!
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    Pullet or cockeral, or pullet acting like a cockeral? (I Took pics)

    Yes 😅
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    What Gender is this chick?

    My best rooster was a maran, but I had a good Cochin Roo as well. The Cochin was more of a yard ornament than an actual rooster haha so yea, keep that in mind with the soft boys. It also helps to get a young cockerel and put it with older already laying adult hens. They put him in his place a...
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    6 week old polish frizzle male or female?

    The frizzle makes it super hard for me. I have a 9 week old polish pullet and her poof is a perfectly round ball. The feathers on the head are round at the tips and they don’t droop at all. So I was looking for these qualities for a pullet but then the frizzle feathering is what I would have...
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    9 week old BO …roo?

    About a day after hatch I almost lost this little guy(?) and had to nurse him a lot. I named him butterball as a joke…like “oh it’s clearly a rooster, we’ll just stuff him and roast him like a butterball Turkey in 6 months” but of course they sit in your lap and cuddle with you and grow on you...
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    Tom the sweetest rooster

    Meet Tom, a 6 month old rooster who sings the eggs song every morning at 630 (instead of crowing). What breed is Tom? He came out of a dark chocolate egg, has pink legs, but his chest is spotted like an Easter egger. His body shape is round like a basket ball. He is not aggressive, he’s clumsy...
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    Bantam eggs?

    I finally confirmed that shirley the bantam laid the egg. My Australorps are now laying eggs and they are twice the size and a darker color. It may be strange but my golden Phoenix is my best layer for now. Every day I get an egg from her. They just started and we are getting more light now so...
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    Bantam eggs?

    I have 5 hens(3 australorps,1 California grey, and one bantam) and I think my golden Phoenix bantam (Shirley) was the first and only bird to lay. She laid 5 eggs all the same size and color. And then stopped. I’m not sure why she stopped or what is going on. She is about 6 months old and is the...
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    I think this is a roo (5-6 weeks old)

    Thanks everyone, I’ll post again in a few weeks!
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    I think this is a roo (5-6 weeks old)

    To be honest, I incubated eggs from the farmers market and I have no idea what breed they are…one is an obvious mix of black copper maran and came out of a beautiful dark chocolate egg (the black chick). There’s no doubt he is a roo (he practically came out of the egg with pink comb and waddles...
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