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    Lets play y'alls favorite game: Boy or Girl: Cuckoo Marans Edition

    We have an adult Amberlink roo that's a great Roo, but my wife loves colored eggs so she is slightly torn on getting rid of Richard (Amberlink) or keeping any cockerels we have. We also have 6 Fibro EE juveniles that I am fully aware that at least 2 are cockerels, but she likes them too since...
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    16 month old EE stopped laying

    Need some thoughts/insights from y'all. Had, at the time, a 16ish month old EE who laid quite frequently (every other or every three days). This past summer in our Texas July heat, she almost over-heated (we saved her with a cold water bath/soak). From there on, until about October, she laid 1...
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    Lets play y'alls favorite game: Boy or Girl: Cuckoo Marans Edition

    Right? Its quite pink at 4 weeks. So much for "sexed pullet" 😂
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    Lets play y'alls favorite game: Boy or Girl: Cuckoo Marans Edition

    This French line Cuckoo Marans is just over four weeks old and I cannot use a size judgment based on the fact it's the only Marans chick with a bunch of Easter Eggers and our first Marans raised from day old. Not aggressive, but spastic and larger than the EE's obviously😂 Do y'all think it's a...
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    Bumblefoot with no scab? I've never dealt with Bumblefoot before. How do I go about fixing this? Help greatly appreciated.

    There's a few videos online about it and a couple dealt specifically with cases such as yours here. If you google "how to remove bumblefoot on chickens" it will come up with a plethora of information. We have only had one instance, both feet on a production red hen. Both had scabs and was...
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    Chickens won’t roost

    Do you block off access to the boxes at night?
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    Sapphire Olive Egger vs. Sapphire Gem

    Thanks! Sarah is getting closer to her dream basket. Pastel green from an EE, a chocolate Marans egg, a dark brown with almost purple speckles from a Marans, white, tan, brown, pink and we have a young black Ameracauna that should be pushing blue in a few months :)
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    Sapphire Olive Egger vs. Sapphire Gem

    Thanks! I've dug as much as I can to try to find pages listing differences, but most don't say much. I guess she just didn't get the Olive gene! Much appreciated!
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    Sapphire Olive Egger vs. Sapphire Gem

    So, we recently bought four new hens to add to our flock. Two of which we were told are both Sapphire Olive Eggers, but after about a week we have received three Olive colored eggs and two light brown eggs from these two. One is tufted and one is not. The other two, a Midnight Majesty Marans and...
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    Texas

    They're not fighting or anything really and it's not a real competition, there's a clear no. 1 in the Amberlink, no. 2 in the RIR/BCM cross and no. 3 in the OE. Just a matter of wanting to thin them out a little. None are aggressive or anything, but Sarah won't let me eat them either since they...
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    Texas

    Mornin' y'all. Haven't posted in this thread here, but my wife and I are just north of Waco with about 20 or so chickens in our backyard with an 11x11 yard shed converted to a coop. With that being said, we have 2-3 cockerels (about 4 months) that we want to get rid of. Anyone interested? One...
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    Olive Egger Sex.. Little help please

    Yup. Very docile BCM and RIR mix. He's Sarah's 2nd favorite of our 16.
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    Olive Egger Sex.. Little help please

    Of course, take her side. 😉😂 I figured so, was just holding out some hope. Thanks!
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    Olive Egger Sex.. Little help please

    So i know EE and OE are notoriously hard to sex, but please give it a shot. My wife is convinced its a cockerel but I have hope :D She also watched it square up with our Amberlink Rooster, so.. He/she is 12.5 - 13 wks old. Super maroon, black and green, but the saddle feathers look just like...
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    New Members in Waco, Texas!..and yes, my wife LOVES shiplap and no, she has not met Joanna.

    hahaha well, Sarah had to have accent walls in the new house 😂 I've met Chip a few times, he's never been anything other than nice and accomodating!
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