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    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    Is someone able to explain or show the difference between "silver" and "silver duckwing"? Thanks so much
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    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    Can anyone comment on if they are hardy in the cold? What sort of set-up would I have to have in Minnesota? Winter temp max low is about -25 deg F., Occasionally cold stretches where it stays below 0 deg F for a few days in a row. My current set-up is a coop that is partially insulated. The...
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    stopping water from freezing

    I think your options are: 1. Bring them close enough to the house to run an extension cord for a heated bowl. Extension cords are not without their dangers, but I risk it anyway. Here in Minnesota I need the heated bowl from November until early April. 2. Rehome. Plenty of people around...
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    Brown Leghorn x EE?

    I have a mutt that I believe may be a leghorn X EE. She has a pea comb, mostly white ear lobes, green legs, a slender body build, and a basically columbian pattern but with some bleed-through of red on her body. She lays an egg almost every day. Takes maybe 1-2 days off per month max. The egg is...
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    Barred Hollands **update: PICs ADDED

    I believe they breed true but are not an APA recognized breed. I think they are cool. I wish I had some California Grays. I am becoming more and more interested in non-show breeds. Some people prefer heritage breeds, but I think breeds like the California Gray are actually more authentically...
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    Barred Hollands **update: PICs ADDED

    If you have production blacks that is cool too. They are fairly uncommon, although not critical like the Barred Holland. They also go by the name "California Gray". I googled "california gray chicken" and came up with a lot of cool info. They were created in the 1930s as well. The California...
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    Holland Chicken

    Well, I'm hear to report on egg color........ She laid her first egg today and sadly it was brown. I had been prepared to be happy with "cream" since I heard that good egg color on the Barred Holland was hard to come by, but this wasn't even cream. The egg is medium brown. Since white egg...
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    Creating a new breed

    I disagree with the idea that we already have enough breeds. Breeds are created by humans to fill a certain need. Most of the breeds we have now seem to me to fit into one of these 4 catagories: 1. Pure production birds. Examples: Commercial white leghorns, cornish cross, production red. Focus...
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    Holland Chicken

    I have to disagree with you on that one. I got a few different types of birds including Javas and Hollands from him to add additional lines to my flocks and all had major DQ's in relation to the standard.....Even more disappointing was when myself and another Java breeder politely emailed him...
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    Holland Chicken

    Try Duane Urch in the spring. He ships eggs and day-olds. He sells a lot of different breeds, but it isn't a typical hatchery at all. He breeds to the Standard. Some of his breeds are super high quality, some not quite as good but still better than you would get from a commercial hatchery. A...
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    Is the Delaware Gene Dominant?

    I have a Columbian type hen that lays a green egg. I have no idea of the parentage as I hatched her from eggs that I bought on Craigslist as eating eggs. The guy who had the chickens didn't know what breeds he had as he had gotten "rainbow layers" from the hatchery and the roo was the hatchery...
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    Looking For la fleche eggs

    Try Duane Urch. Ships eggs and day old chicks.
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    Questions for those with two story coops.

    I'm planning something similar. My coop has a 4 x 4 ft floor space and is 6 feet high (a Lowe's playhouse). I have 5 chickens, and last winter it felt like there wasn't quite enough floor space. But I did notice that a couple of the chickens really liked to hang out on the 1.5 ft by 4 ft...
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    Question for folks with 4x4 coops with 6 or more chickens

    I kept 5 chickens through a Minnesota winter in a 4x4 coop.Height was 5 ft (a Lowe's playhouse). They did have a fully plastic-covered run 6x12. They went out in it every day, even when it was below zero (during the summer, they free range). In January and February, the droppings froze solid and...
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    has anyone ever tried to breed a PURPLE chicken

    I have 2 black ameraucana 9-week-old chicks from a breeder. I also happened to hatch out some chicks from my Prissybator at the same time. One of the hatched chicks looks exactly like the ameraucanas but with a beautiful purple sheen instead of the green. He is the most handsome bird of the...
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