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    Rooster or Hen?

    Adding my "cockerel" vote. Putting him in with other Australorps or Barnevelders would be great, I would think! Mutts are my favorites, they are unique unto themselves. I've heard good things about Faverolles. If it was my project, I'd put in a couple of cochins too, for color, fluffy legs...
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    Gender Identification still trying to figure out

    Yup, too early to tell. Check back when they're 3 months old!
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    Mauled Chicks, Help Me Decide What to Do

    I have my chicks in a large, raised coop with hardware cloth all around. They have roosts, but most of them still hang out on the bottom of the coop at night. Last night, something terrible happened. Some animal came along and nipped off most of their toes. A couple of them are ok, but there are...
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    Culled hen, found these inside, WHAT R THEY?????

    Holy crap! I had something like this turn up in the egg box recently. Now at least I know what it was! Oh man, I wonder which of them it was? No one has been acting weird! Well, any weirder than they ever do. Man ... I'm going to have to catch them and feel all over them. Thanks!
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    Frizzle Cochin: He or She?

    Well drat ... I'll give him another month before I call him a rooster for sure. Alas, I cannot have roosters in Arlington! It figures that my favorite would be a rooster! Anyone in DFW need a bee-yooo-tee-ful frizzle cochin mix, possibly carrying blue/green egg and naked neck genes?
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    Frizzle Cochin: He or She?

    Hi! I got this frizzle cochin (as an egg) from DipsyDoodleDoo. It might be a bit of mix. It's an unusual shade of gray, isn't he? What I really want to know is, is this a cockerel or a pullet? It's about a month old, so perhaps too early to tell, but I'd like to hear your best guess! Sorry for...
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    Bantams and standard sizes, can you mix em?

    Can your Serama breed with the standards?! That's gotta be something to see! XD Like a chihuahua makin' moves on a mastiff!
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    Bantams and standard sizes, can you mix em?

    I'm interested in this too ... Specifically, I would like to know if anyone has successfully kept a few Seramas, or even just a Serama rooster, with standard sized hens. I know he can't possibly breed them, but I'd love to have a tiny little jewel running around trying to be a big man! I've also...
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    Setting eggs this weekend! Aug 14th! any hatching buddies?

    Well, all our eggs are hatched! We didn't have a great hatch numbers-wise, but since the vast majority of our eggs were from local $2-a-dozen farmers who happened to have roosters hanging around, I didn't expect high fertility from them. With the "special eggs," we got some nice olive-eggers...
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    Setting eggs this weekend! Aug 14th! any hatching buddies?

    Aaaa! Little feather-footed guys are too cute! Yeah, definitely not Delawares! XD Probably cochins. I have a bunch of Buff Orpington eggs, and as fate would have it, the first one to hatch was BLACK! Looks like someone's been messing around behind the BO rooster's back ...
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    Setting eggs this weekend! Aug 14th! any hatching buddies?

    Yay, I love to see all the baby chicks hatching! Ours (the metric nonsense of eggs, including mutts, BOs, EEs, olive eggers and purdy bantam silkies/cochins) aren't due until Monday, but one surprised me by hatching today! I was so surprised to glance at the incubator and WHOA - there's a chick...
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    Setting eggs this weekend! Aug 14th! any hatching buddies?

    Quote: Hahaha! That sounds like something my kid would do. One more reason I have a big wooden cabinet incubator! Speaking of which ... Yesterday I set a metric crapload of eggs! Lemme see ... 2 dozen Buff Orpington, 2 dozen Easter Egger, 2.5 dozen mystery chicken (from a backyard flock), 2.5...
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    BC Marans Nozzle Clogged? Egg Color Lightening

    Ok, so this is a weird question. I have a French Black Copper Marans hen I raised from a chick. She comes from the Wade Jean line, from a very reputable breeder. She is very true to type - correct coloring, feathered legs, good body shape, even has that Marans attitude. The first few months she...
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    EE Pullets Pick up only - gone.

    Hi! I can't drive out to East Texas, but if by any chance you have to go in to Dallas for something, I'd be happy to meet you. I'm in Arlington. I'm not on BYC that often; my email is mommyfox at gmail dot com.
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    Setting Exciting eggs April 22nd, Anybody with me?

    Well guys, no speckled sussex for me. :-( Not a one hatched. The Australorp is still sitting on them, but I'm going to take them out from under her tomorrow. Poor girl, she tried so hard! I think those several hours she was off of them (thanks, son, for closing the coop behind her) did them...
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