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    Gender guesses

    Yes, my porcelain is crowing. I was thinking the Wyandotte was a boy, but I don't know day to day now.
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    Gender guesses

    They are now 10 weeks old. Does this one still look boy to everyone, because he seems calm...the other cockerels started crowing Is this one girl looking? I don't know about either of my Wyandottes.
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    Gender guesses

    Java (above) - I think is a girl Iron Peep - suspected and 90% sure boy.
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    Gender guesses

    My porcelain D'Uccle......6 weeks. BOY? That comb is awfully big and red for a little guy....this one is my teeniest. Wyandotte #2 - Iron Peep.....I'm guessing boy, since his comb area is redder than the other. He is fast, aggressive. He is smaller than the other one, though. Wyandotte...
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    Gender

    Here's the 3 again at 6 weeks..... the one in front mostly is the one in question for me. Are the black ones black sexlinks?
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    Gender

    Thanks, guys. I think you are right. I have 2 Black Sexlinks. I know at the feed store they were hopping over the barrier into the other pens of chicks, but they looked different to me. I will post pics in 2 weeks. :)
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    When do cochins start laying?

    Of my two, one got real sick (peritonitis, I think), right before her sister layed her egg, and died. The sister who survived just started laying a few weeks ago, so almost 11 months.
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    Your best hatching advice pleae!

    Thanks, everybody. My best hatch (although still not stellar) - 7 out of 16 made it. I had to help 2 (I know this to be a chicken farmer no-no, but I couldn't help it)....... My students were thrilled.
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    Gender

    I got the 2 black ones from the feed store. One is supposedly a Barred Rock and the other a Black Sexlink. The black one with the shorter tail - boy???? It's at the top of both pics. It's a bigger chick than the others, heavy. The other 2 seem to have bigger tails, the Buff Orp and the...
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    One egg left

    Well, she already got off it today. Thanks!
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    One egg left

    I have a broody mama...she hatched one egg, the one I was positive had a chick in there. That was Saturday. She has one more egg under her and keeps pushing it under her, so will it hatch? I bought a friend for the chick, just in case that other egg doesn't hatch, but when do I take the egg...
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    Your best hatching advice pleae!

    Ok, so my local eggs are waiting to get some incubator time. The incubator is clean and will go tomorrow to the classroom to be set. Now, I just gotta wait for my mailed eggs. Meantime, I have an announcement.....I am a first-time ever broody mama chicken farmer:
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    Your best hatching advice pleae!

    Thank you! I tried the dry hatch, but I live in a VERY dry area, so maybe that wasn't for the best. I'm hoping with a new hygrometer, I can get more out of my hatch. I'm eggcited, since my NN eggs look fertile. I will start collecting them on Wednesday and clean the incubator out and get it...
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    Your best hatching advice pleae!

    By the way, I'm aiming to set the eggs around mid-February.
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    Your best hatching advice pleae!

    Hi, I hatch eggs for my students. I have a HOvabator, styrafoam, with air. I've hatched a total of 3 times in the last 2 years. I've had terrible hatch rates. The first time, I followed the directions the incubator gave. The 2nd and 3rd times I've tried the dry -er hatch method. I live in...
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