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I've got the medium and the large traps but they're not foolproof. I always keep them out but not always baited. I've caught 2 skunks but I know there's more hiding in the blackberry brambles. The first one I caught had obviously been nursing babies. Hopefully I got her before they were old...

About 5 or 6 weeks old. A girl would be nice since my only other Appleyard hen was taken by a skunk.

Can you help me sex this duckling?

I'd vote all females. A pure BR male would be double barred and there would be much more white in the Barring coming in on the wings, at least in my experience. Every breeder and hatchery breeds for different traights but generally speaking, there should be a noticeable difference in the Barring...

A good and mostly reliable indicator is the comb. 3 rows of distinct peas normally indicates male.

This was a super interesting conversation. Just my own personal experience to add to the mix: I live in Oregon and close to the devastating fires we had a couple years ago (we were evacuated when the fire got within a mile of our home). My cat and my dog could come with us for the evacuation, my...

It is always exciting to hear from you and an even greater joy to have you confirm what I suspected. I FINALLY got to see for myself something you taught me years ago :)

It might be worth it to mention, I used to have a welbar rooster but it died abruptly last year so this guy might have been hatched around that time. Welbar to welbar doesn't ever hatch black with silver stripes and a headspot though right? I ruled my old welbar roo out as his daddy because of...

I hatched out a whole bunch of eggs this month and I had collected eggs from one of my groups that has a mixed breed barred rooster that I think carries silver. As a chick (also hatched on site last year) he was black, with silver dorsal stripes, and a big messy head spot. I kept him as a...

It dropped down to 74 in the night. My house was set to 68 so it was barely warmer than room temp.

Oh well that would be nice if that top 2nd left was female. Then at least it would be an even split male/female. I still didn't recover my losses from my original order but it's better than being out $70ish

That's how I separated out these ones. Just wanted to confirm with someone more knowledgeable that I sorted accurately. Also wanted an opinion on the orangish chick.

So this year I ordered speckled Sussex (for a breeding project) and threw in some whiting true blues for fun. Well when they arrived I kept them under a heat lamp while I waited to make sure my fancy new producers pride brooder was working right. Next day it seemed good to go so moved them all...

There are also silver and gold phase welsh harlequins. I didn't look too closely but something to consider :confused:

Bsl= black sex link= the product of a barred hen bred to a solid roo