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    Mongolian black chicken - Phu Phan

    Hello everyone, couple of months ago i saw on FB some photos of a chicken that looked like cemany but with white feathers... after a little research i found out that it is a breed called phu phan(mongolian black chicken-ไก่ดำภูพาน), i only found it in Thailand, i also found out that there are...
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    Help with breed guess!

    Looks like australorp to me..but i guess there are many black breeds that look like that at this age. Time will show us..
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    Hen only lays "fart eggs"!!!

    Im not sure if its right, but i count the start of their laying cycle when they lay their first egg, and their cycle "stops" at the exact same day on the next year, which means that the chicken is fully mature, her eggs are gonna be at their optimal size and quality atc..(for some hens this...
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    Hen only lays "fart eggs"!!!

    Im from Greece. well i thought that she might have a malfuctioning ovary but i hoped that maybe she might start laying normal eggs eventually..or at least on her next cycle... altho she is the most friendly chicken in all my flock, really tame!
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    Hen only lays "fart eggs"!!!

    Hello guys, thanks for the replies, unfortunatly these arent pullet eggs, they are yolkless, plus i have 2 more phoenix poulets that are exactly the same age as the white phoenix(they were all born 1 of april 2017) and their eggs are way bigger than the white hen's. Here is a photo, the middle...
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    Hen only lays "fart eggs"!!!

    Hello everyone, i've got a phoenix hen that started laying like 3 weeks ago, her fist egg was as tiny as a quail egg, i did a research and i found that is usualy something that happens ether on young hens or too old hens that are about to stop laying... 2 days later i got another fart...
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    Brahma color mixing...

    Hello everyone!! i finaly got to incubate some of my brahma eggs... I used eggs from my BluePartridge hen (the father is the Dark Rooster) I got 2 color variations. Ι'm 99% sure that the chick on the right is Dark, but im not sure if the other one is Blue partridge(altho i hatched the mother and...
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    Lazarus, the silkie that wont give up!

    Next name i was thinking to give him was Phoenix (which also represents rebirth) but i thought it would be ironic due to the circumstances... :D:D:D
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    Lazarus, the silkie that wont give up!

    Hello everyone, this is my silkie, lazarus and he is 6 months old.(altho because i only have 1 silkie, im not sure if he is a rooster or a hen) When he was 2-3 weeks old, one of my male phoenixes jumped into the brooder and pecked him on the head, i found him flat on the ground, looked just...
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    large fowl brahma genetics ........ can anyone help me please ??

    Did you manage to get your bso? I recently had a struggle trying to find out how to match my brahmas and i found out that if i breed my Dark rooster with my orange splash hen(i think in US is called red pyle) i will get only BSO offsprings.
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    Brahma color mixing...

    Thank you very much, the thing is that i ve found the link a couple days ago but because i didnt se the blue partridge x dark combination i thought that it was diferent than the partridge x dark, but now i get it :) thanks everyone I ve also spoke with the breeder (the one that gave me the eggs)...
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    Brahma color mixing...

    Thanks alot, that was very detailed, and the exact thing i was looking for.
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    Brahma color mixing...

    Hello everyone, i hope im not posting it in the wrong forum, I have 6 brahmas 4 roosters and 2 hens the 3 roosters and the 2 hens are 10,5 months old their colors are roosters: Dark, Orange splash, Blue partrdidge hens: Orange splash,Blue partrdidge The 4th rooster is 4 months old and the...
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    Hello from Greece :)

    Thanks everyone for the welcoming!! I wish i could post more photos of my chickens right now but its been a rainy week so the most part of my backyard is full of mud, and my chickens are not allowed (by me) to get back there,i have them on the fron part which is less muddy but a litttle small...
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    Hello from Greece :)

    There is plenty of space in my backyard(half of it is for the chickens and half for our vegetables) Im also at the end of the village, and away from main roads, i could easily let them out but im a bit worried about foxes, inside the fence i have my dog for protection, but outside im not that...
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