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    Weird coloration on fat when processing 10 mo. old layers GRAPHIC PICS

    I appreciate your input! Well drat, this was a little while back so I don't have those organs anymore, and I'm pretty sure it was only on those internal fat pads. And you're right, it did look like it was strictly on the surface. The girls were the same age and from the same hatchery. And the...
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    Weird coloration on fat when processing 10 mo. old layers GRAPHIC PICS

    Culled two easter egger hens for personality/conformation issues, and two males under 6mo. The males looked fine, but the girls had some very large fat deposits and a weird green mottling? I double checked the bile duct and I'm pretty sure I didn't knick it. Anyone know what could do that and if...
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    Buff Leakage on Black Orpington or something else?

    All things being equal what I would like is healthy daughters from a couple favorite hens and a little more meat for the freezer. As much as I like the scruffy guy "there can be only one," the lavenders are cute but I'm finding that they're just not for me. So if using either of them gets me a...
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    Buff Leakage on Black Orpington or something else?

    Thank you both! I figured the little lavender was a male but I was certainly hoping he wasn't either of those things. Absolute sweetheart, but I'm not sure letting him stay is worth having to breed the feather shredding back out. It was a very old-timey feed store a bit out in the sticks. I can...
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    Buff Leakage on Black Orpington or something else?

    Bought a handful of chicks from a local feed store in October because my broody would not break and I was desperate. The chicks were hatched at that location by one of the owners, I was told that the chicks were lavender and black Orpingtons. But I've got some questions about a bird I'm assuming...
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    TSC EEs, Another roo or two?

    Thank you! The two roos I culled were chest bumpers with big red combs who started trying to crow at like 6 weeks old and one of them had his sickle feathers coming in around 7 weeks. But now with both of them gone the first chick has gone from extremely shy to regularly raising hackles and...
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    TSC EEs, Another roo or two?

    Got 5 straight run chicks back in mid feb, and I've culled two already for being very obvious cockerels. Had two slightly suspicious ones left and of course someone started trying to crow this morning. Pics are from today at 8 weeks+. 2 pics each of all three. Pretty sure the first is a roo...
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    Greetings from AL!

    Thanks! I was being a little on the hyperbolic side, but the birds had a minimally predator proofed run. They had a pretty barren yard and had a 9x16ft wire roofed run mostly made of 1x2 inch fencing, chicken wire, and hardware cloth at the bottom and as the roof(the neighbors told me the flock...
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    Greetings from AL!

    Hiya! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I first had chickens when I was a teenager, so these birds are the first I've had in a decade, but this is my first attempt at urban chickens! (2) How many chickens do you have right now? The house came with 8 hens in about...
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