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    Review by 'Grits Chick' in article 'Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens'

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    Comment by 'Grits Chick' in article 'Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens'

    Thanks for all the info- very informative and like your comments on feeding chickens chicken and catfood. Seems cat and dogfood all have chicken in them, also. Doubly, ugh, wrong to me ... just saying! Want to add that I lost a chicken, presumably to wild growing mushrooms. I try to pull up all...
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    BLUE SPLASH WHEATEN AMERAUCANA HATCHING EGGS? Yes, no?

    I hatched 2 pullets and 2 roosters from my last Whiting True Blue hatch, The egg color from my hens are definitely a truer blue than my Ameraucanas. One of my WTB roosters has the Wheaten coloring, and I'm planning a hatch in the near future, but want to wait a few more months. The WTB to me...
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    What predator would kill ducks, but not eat them??

    I've learned there are too many predators out there. They do things you would never think of. After securing my coop and runs what I thought was pretty good, I just lost a 7 week old pullet thru a 1" opening this week. Mine had to be a raccoon - those tiny darn hands pulled her right thru. Sick...
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    Anyone crossed Whiting True Blues?

    Just curious how the hatch went for you, if you don't mind updating. Too new to the WTB to comment on problems with hatching colored eggs. The only thing I have heard about for fatal genes are the problems with the tufting gene when there are two copies of the tufting gene it is lethal. Have...
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    Anyone crossed Whiting True Blues?

    I'm no expert, but my understanding is that a blue layer with a dark brown layer will give you a lighter olive layer, first generation. If you breed the first generation back to a dark brown layer you should get a darker olive egger. The WTB is not a breed so I don't know exactly how it will all...
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    Aggressive Rooster

    I learned my lesson on my dominant roo! Glad it's not so much the breed, my boy was hand raised. Thanks for the info! Was recently looking at the barnevelder. Beautiful birds - Nice to have options out there!
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    Aggressive Rooster

    When I started my flock I had gotten 19 roosters added into my first order-"freebies to keep the girls warm during transit". I had a neighbor who wanted the roosters, but I wanted to keep just one. So I picked the one who was the "friendliest", I thought! He was about 5-6 weeks old when he would...
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    BLUE SPLASH WHEATEN AMERAUCANA HATCHING EGGS? Yes, no?

    Hi, How did your Blue Splash Wheaten eggs turn out? Do you have pictures? The egg color looks like the "Ameraucanas" I bought from a reputable poultry dealer a year ago. The chicks were of many different colors which is why I chose them, and so the eggs very from a very pale green to a bluish...
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    Your Cream Legbar Sexing Challenge

    Thanks for the images. I just bought a dozen CL eggs, but only 2 hatched. Trying to learn the variables in autosexing. 1 is a female, other is a ???, also. Will you keep us updated?
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