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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    Oh! Okay. So it's not unheard of then. lol Still, really cool!
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    Thank you very much! I'm so excited to be creating this new breed!

    Thank you very much! I'm so excited to be creating this new breed!
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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    Mini-Update: I'm going to do a more complete update tomorrow, but I just HAD to share what I discovered while checking the feathering out progress on my Canterbury Crested chicks! One of the chicks has CLAWS ON HER WINGS!!!!! She has an extra digit, almost like a "finger", on each wing at the...
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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    Perhaps I'm using the terminology wrong? The F1 birds are the original 50/50 silkie X serama. What I'm referring to as F2 chicks have at least 1 F1 parent. F3 chicks have at least 1 F2 parent, ect.
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    Hen mating like a rooster????

    I have a hen who does this, but she also crows, exhibits other rooster behaviors and grew a rooster tail! Yet we know for sure she's a hen because we locked her in a kennel by herself and she laid an egg in there! Her eggs never have yolks. Only whites. We were told she may be a gynandromorph...
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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    UPDATE: I took new pictures of my 6 week old F2 Canterbury Cresteds. These are a mix of 2/3 silkie, 1/3 serama. F2 Canterbury Crested 1 - F2 Canterbury Crested 2 - F2 Canterbury Crested 3 - F2 Canterbury Crested 4 - F2 Canterbury Crested 5 - (This chick, I'm particularly excited...
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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    UPDATE: The F3 chicks are 1 week old! Please enjoy these new pictures of our purple-skinned beauties! Chick 1 - Chick 2 - (I named this one Bow Tye. Bow for short.) Chick 3 - Chick 4 - Chick 5 - (These last 3 had a hard time standing still, so I couldn't get head shots of them.)...
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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    True, but I'm not really developing them as a meat bird. I make pickled eggs and the smaller eggs work better as the larger ones can be a bit overpowering. Also, if I can get them looking how I want, they will also make gorgeous ornamental birds. Although, if someone really wanted to, they could...
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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    Just posted an update! Lots of new babies!
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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    They are doing fantastic! I just posted an update! Check it out! ^_^
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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    UPDATE: Sorry for the long wait. I have some exciting news! We have more F2 chicks as well as our first F3s!! I ended up keeping 2 roosters and 1 hen from the last group of F2s (cause there was only 1 hen in the whole bunch...) The first rooster is a super friendly, very small white with...
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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    Hmm... True. I hadn't thought of that. My seramas came from eggs I ordered off ebay, so who knows what kind of feathering might be in their gene pool.
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    New Breed In Development! Canterbury Crested Chickens!

    Hello all! It's been a while since I last posted on here, but I wanted to share some exciting news! I am developing a new breed of chicken! I am calling them Canterbury Cresteds, after my hometown of Canterbury Connecticut! The breed will include a mix of silkie, serama, polish crested, ayam...
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    Chicks Dying! Please Help!!

    OMG, I hadn't even considered that there could be something wrong with the water. I've already ruled out the feed, the air quality and bedding and no one feeds the chicks anything inappropriate (I have security cameras. I would see it when I check the footage.), but we do have a well and we have...
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    Chicks Dying! Please Help!!

    Hello again. I'm in need of some help. I have been hatching out chicks and haven't had issues in the past, but recently I started getting into some of the more exotic breeds and the chicks keep dying on me. They start out fine - eating, drinking and running around like perfectly healthy chicks...
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