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    For those who ferment: how do you handle (human) vacations?

    When I used to ferment feed for my chicks I just kept a bucket going in my chick shed at whatever the ambient temperature was. Each morning I would give it a stir, dole out whatever amount to each of the chick brooders, and then add back a certain amount of dry crumbles and a certain amount of...
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    How often should I handle chicks that are a few days old?

    I would say to handle them as much as possible right from the start. Sure, you don’t want to overwhelm them, so maybe if you see them sleeping, you leave them be and then when they wake up, you play with them. As much as you want.
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    Barred Olive Egger??

    Barred Olive Egger seems like a good guess. I guess you’ll find out when they start laying eggs. Fingers crossed they are females! A lot of hatcheries make sex-linked crosses by using non-barred males over barred females which makes the male offspring barred and the female offspring not barred...
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    What Mug Are You Using Today?

    Do you knit?
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    What Mug Are You Using Today?

    I should post the link to my first dragon scarf post, so you can see all 4 of them. Dragon scarf
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    What Mug Are You Using Today?

    I crochet! Here is a post of mine in the crocheters thread (in which I also quoted one of my previous posts) Link I could knit a little bit in 4th grade, but I just remember my piece getting wider and wider because I couldn’t stop splitting stitches. I tried again last year and all it took...
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    What Mug Are You Using Today?

    Went to Joann Fabrics clearance sale yesterday and bought this clear(ance) mug. (Actually went to two locations because yarn was 40% off and the first store didn’t have that much selection. That didn’t stop me from damaging my wallet at both stores! Don’t tell DH!! :duc)
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    Crocheters Thread

    Aw thank you! So a couple months ago, my 5 year old granddaughter (who lives in Oregon and I live in Indiana) convinced my daughter to buy her a Disney Princess amigurumi crochet kit. And then they FaceTimed me to show me, and ask me if I would teach her to crochet. I had my doubts, but I said...
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    You are in the right place! But if you do want to post a new thread, the Buy-Sell-Trade forum is the correct spot. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/chicken-hatching-eggs.36/ Follow the link and click on the big green button that says Post thread. It will take you to a form where you...
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    The African and Chinese goose thread!!

    How old is it? It seems like it still has some knob-developing to do. Head raised like that is a gander thing. But I find that their behavior can be ambiguous until they mature. I would lean towards Chinese rather than African. Any possibility it is a mixed breed?
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    Crocheters Thread

    The two dragons were for the two grandsons who are the big brothers. They each have a little sister, and I finally finished the girls’ scarves. One loves Disney princesses and the other loves dogs. The dog is modeled after my dachshund Toby.
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    What Mug Are You Using Today?

    Using the Mt. St. Helens one again today. But here are the ones I used earlier in the week that I forgot to post. My daughter has a collection of mugs to rival my own! Her DH is in the army and they have typically moved every one to two years. A lot of their homes have had tiny kitchens. He...
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    Are these blue laced red wyandottes?

    This photo is showing splashes, which start out lighter than the blue or black laced chicks. Which will explain why you thought your chicks were darker, because your particular chicks are not splash. As for feed store employees, they don’t really get much training in the chick department, and...
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    Blue Laced Red Wyandotte

    Here are some photos from a google search. Splash: And then I circled a good example of a blue laced and a black laced You can search BYC for info on the Blue-Black-Splash genetics. There are a lot of posts explaining how the blue gene works. But in breeding blue birds, all 3 variants will be...
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    Spotting which pullets are full breed speckled sussex

    The OP is in Australia, so maybe SS there look different than in the US. I thought a lot of them look more like Swedish Flower Hen than Speckled Sussex. I wonder if her parent stock isn’t homozygous for the mahogany gene, thus causing some of the chicks to have more of a mille fleur look than...
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