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    How do I improve the quality of these eggs/shells?

    Also look at the possibility that they are picking up grass or plant material thet might have been sprayed with a pesticide or an insecticide. Sounds more like that kind of a problem rather than just a lack of calcium. Many of us don't feed any extra calcium, just what we get in the manufactured...
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    Chicken Inbreeding?

    Your feed store chicks and your bantams are probably quite distantly related. And the feed store chicks are probably not closely related to one another. So you can go 3-4 generations before you really have to be concerned. You won't produce 3-legged chicks. Inbreeding usually first shows up as a...
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    is this a buff brahma rooster????

    The daughters will all be gold columbian and the sons will be silver columbian (but carrying gold) with reddish in the hackle and in the wing bows. Large Buff Brahmas are rather rare - why not get a pure Buff female (or 2) and produce a flock of pure Buffs?
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    Blue Cochin 20wk old boy or girl??

    Male. You can see male feathering in the tail and the wattle growth says male. Sorry.
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    Who is this mystery chicken?

    Nankin cockerel
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    a first for me

    Hi, Probably by now you have your answer but will put in my bit anyway. This looks like what is known as "clubbed down." It is the result of the presence of the gene for extended black color. It can appear in any breed. People who produce commercial Sex-Links see it in the females but not in the...
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    Nankin Discussion Thread

    I've kept Nankins since the early 1980s. When hatched chicks should all show a small dark head spot. It has no relation to their sex. They should not show any mottling or specklng on their first feathers. The first feathers look somewhat like those of a New Hampshire or a commercial Rhode Island...
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    what breed is this

    Commercial brown-egg female
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    Cross breeding question!!!

    You will get a bird that is about mid-way in size between the two parents. If you use the Orpington as the mother the offspring may be a little larger than mid-way becasue of the larger egg size of the dam. Egg size influences chick size. The chicks will probably have extra toes because five...
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