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    silver cuckoo marans X easter egger question please

    This is my experience only, but I found the sex link traits work with mixes. This spring I hatched 15 eggs from 3 different barred olive egger hens (maranxEE) mixed with the option of three different roosters (white sultan, silver lace seabright, and EE). The chicks from the barred hens crossed...
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    Illinois...

    I have to say, the chick's I have purchased over the years from farm and fleet have always been healthy and vigorous. We live entirely too close to the store and spent way too much money there. Cavemanrich, your pups are adorable. My dogs adore small dogs and are well behaved with my free...
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    Illinois...

    I live in woodstock/Marengo (McHenry county)... not far from farm and fleet. It is fun to follow the thread of chicken peeps in my area. I have a mixed flock of 34 birds. I am lead volunteer for great dane rescue midwest, and I have a pack of big dogs too!
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    Loud Mouth Baby!!!

    Over the years i have raised a boat load (lol) of chicks. I put in a beanie baby turkey (it has a wide loose tail that is attached to it's back) into the brooder, and the chicks LOVE it! They will crawl up on its tail and snuggle, sometimes they crawl under the tail, or rest on it's legs. It...
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    Please Help Me With Tiny! (and brooder question)

    I am desperate for experienced information on runts. I purchased 4 D'uucle's on 4-23-10, two Mille Fleur and two Porcelain. Three are growing normally, but one is TINY. It is feathering, albeit a bit more slowly, just like the others, but it has barely grown at all in size. It is at least a...
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    Question About Chick I Helped Out Of Shell

    I found this thread in a search for information on one of my D'uucle Bantam chicks. I got 4 D'uucle's on 4-23-10, two Mille Fleur and two Porcelain. Three are growing normally, but one is TINY. It is feathering, albeit a bit more slowly, just like the others, but it has barely grown at all in...
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    Do you trust your dog around your chickens?

    We have a Great Dane Pup (4.5) months old. We adopted him at 8 weeks, and he has been exposed to grown hens and baby chicks since his arrival at our home. He is excellent with them all. He likes to lick the fluffy babies. I have 3 month old chicks that don't always cooperate with coming in...
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    Pictures of ANY and ALL blue chickens please!!!!

    Quote: I have a young roo, hatched in November of 2009, that is beetle black (green sheen) with purple bars. He has a brother that carries the same coloring but also has a shiny rust red lace to his beetle black neck feathers. I am looking for good homes for both, if anyone is interested...
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    suggestions for chicken friendly ground cover?

    hi guys, Our coop and run has been built for two years, it is a cute little building with skylights and interior paneling. We live in the woods and carved out a little area amongst the trees and it looks Hansel and Gretel like. Last summer hubby put up a rock wall around a cleared area in...
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    Picking up chicks tomorrow - getting cold feet! UPDATE - pic heavy!

    You are going to end up loving your chickens and becoming chicken obsessed - it is SO much fun, and they are so amusing! And forget the worries, it is a lot more "user friendly" of a hobby then you think. Soon you will be in love with your girls and know each one personally. Enjoy!!!
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    Can anyone tell me kind of Bantams I have?

    The chicks with the feathered feet are D'uucle (they are the only breed of chicken with "hawk feathered" feet). The light ones are porcelain and the brownish ones are mille fleur. I have two of each in my brooder right now! They are so cute zooming all over the place, amongst my Lakenvelders...
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    Close up of heads to identify if I have any roos HELP

    My area feed store (Farm and Fleet) claims 90% accuracy on pullets. The salesman told me about one man who bought 5 barred rock pullets, and they ALL turned out to be roos! HAHA. Some people just don't have the luck. I have bought straight run chicks three times, in pairs, and all 6 turned...
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    Different hatch dates in the same incubator...

    Hi, I have 'stagger hatched' a number of times. I have a son who continually adds eggs a number of days after i have started a batch ( he LOVES putting his favorites in, fresh from the coop, lol - when the bator is going he gets so excited!!). I have never had a problem with the latter placed...
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    **UPDATED** 09/10/2010 PAGE 7 Brown Houdan Bantam PICS!

    I have a Houdan roo, that has sired "bator" chicks with hens of a variety of breed, in kind of a 'barnyard mix-match'. He is a good mix of white and black mottled feathers, not on the dark colored side. I have produced RRR, NHampshire, Gold lace wing wyandotte, Buff orph, Leghorn, Phoenix, and...
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    Do I help? Very white membrane on pipped egg

    Heart Failure, lol BEEN THERE! People can't imagine how emotionally up-heaving hatching can be unless you experience it, right? During my last hatch of 22, i was up for 48 hours just watching and worrying. I developed 'bator face' from resting my chin on the styrofoam during the dark pre-dawn...
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