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Yes, so I have been told in an earlier post on this thread. Brandy's were identical to mine. I believe they are recessive white sports, but call them what you want. They all have slate blue legs and purplish to mulberry combs/wattles. They have black to bluish skin. Every chick I hatch out is...

Quote: An Easter Egger is for the most part a mutt chicken that lays blue eggs. I also raise show quality Ameraucanas in Blue, Black and Splash (BBS). You can mix them all together in a pen and they will still breed true. Here is a chart shows what you get depending on what what you breed...

I can see where you are coming from. This is a huge thread and I can see the importance of staying on topic. However, for years now I have mostly been a lurker on this BYC site but recently I have decided to try and venture out a little more so call me naïve but I thought I WAS talking about...

I purchased my Ayam Cemanis from Sunbird Farms who is involved with slow foods and raises organic gourmet poultry meats (he has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal when they interviewed him regarding heritage chicken and the gourmet food industry). A while back he got a big promotion and...

Yes they are very striking and their skin is darker than in my black feathered birds (which can have more blue in it). Since I have several roosters and only 1 hen, if I breed the white roosters to black hens, will the offspring have the recessive white in them?

I have an all black Ayam Cemani hen that lays blue eggs that hatch out all black chicks. Other than the egg color, I do not see a difference. I sell hatching eggs on eBay and I disclose in my Ayam Cemani ad that "I have 1 hen that lays blue eggs but that they hatch out black chicks and that...

I do not help out a chick that hasn’t pipped on its own. I too hatch a great deal of eggs. I have had a hobby business for several years now of selling mainly chicks. I raise about a dozen different rare breeds and hatch out hundreds and many times well over a thousand each year. I have 2...

My take on it is that they are flecks off of their tiny little down feathers that stick to the egg membranes, They do not fluff out like feathers because they were wet when they got stuck to the membrane. When they are a little too wet in the egg, sometimes I have to help a chick out by...

If they were in an incubator and it was set a little too hot (but not so hot as to kill the embryos), that will cause the chicks to hatch a little early. The same goes if it is set a little too cool, they will hatch a little later. Also, I find that the smaller breeds/eggs tend to be the first...

Does anyone know where I can download a users manual for a Hatchrite incubator? I just bought a single door 2 tray unit recently but all the links for information &/or parts do not work. Thank you in advance, Jennie

***** miss heny - how much per egg? ***** I would sell Asian x Cemani for $2 an egg. Here are a few pictures of what my Asian fm look like (most but not all are fm).

***** bluenkimchi - Do you have pics of your white sports? *****

Just wanted to say thanks again for everyone's help through my ordeal. It was very reassuring to know you were there for advice and moral support. Backyard chickens is such a wonderful resource for the chicken hobbyists and I am very grateful for it. Sincerely, Jennie

I was waiting to read this entire ‘Breeders Club’ thread before I commented but it’s like reading the novel War and Peace (with spurts of war & peace… Lol) and is taking too long so I will just jump right n. If you are just looking for fm meat birds and are not picky about hybrids, I will sell...

Kathy & Speckledhen, After reading up on it a bit and reading of very 'iffy' outcomes, we have decided to put our duck down. There is a poultry processing facility not to far that is still open and said they can process her if we leave now. I wanted to let you know so that you won't keep...