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Definitely Cayuga! Cute cute cute!! I love Cayugas and runners.

If that is cedar shavings, toss them. Switch to pine. It's funny, we breed both and I still have a hard time distinguishing the 2 when they are babies. Because lots of times, cayugas will stand more upright when checking something out. All of my cayugas have had a lighter spot in their fluff...

Thats what i said i have been doing for 3 days. The minute she got that way, I treated it.

I know it's a broad title but I don't know what to name it. So, I'm not new to chickens. We have several different breeds and all have been Healthy with the exception of a few splayed legs, but thats fixable. So this chick, who we hatched from our very healthy ayam cemani. The ayam cemani...

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Omg. I remember you! You helped me with my Franklin last Sept! He had a niacin deficiency

Thank you so much!!

I have a pair of blue runners that I incubated eggs from twice. Both times, the ducklings appear to be blue. Which is strange because I thought breeding 2 blues, would result in 50% blue, 25% silver and 25% black. Maybe they are too young to show their color yet?I love them and their color no...

Hi guys. I’ve been hatching for some time now but I’ve never seen a leg issue like this. One of my newly hatched chicks will not let down his foot. When he hatched 2 days ago, his leg already appeared to have this problem. His toes will grip your finger but he holds his leg up all the time. It’s...

I have mine to I have my runners and cayuga’s together and I’ve put the eggs in the incubator. I can’t wait to see how many are full breed and how many crosses. So excited lol.

DO NOT!!! I REPEAT, do NOT tie it off and cut it. This is inhuman and very painful. This is a very bad practice. If you look on google, it’ll tell you not to do this.

Gotcha. Breeding sex links and understanding their offspring is hard for me. Least right now bc they are new to me. So a sex link rooster mates with a sapphire gem and a silver lace Wyandotte would end up as what? Thank you for clarifying

I a I actually just got my first fertile eggs from my own flock. I have a black sex link (barred rock) rooster and a couple sapphire gems and a couple silver lace Wyandotte’s. It appears I have eggs from both hens. The BR rooster carries the gene to his offspring, I believe. I’m hoping for some...

Well, they WILL be fine lol. If you have heat in the coop. A lot of ppl forget that chickens used to be wild. Yes, genetics and different breeding has changed that. My 3 week old Ayam Cemani and White Bresse have had a ceramic heat brooder and they stay far away from it. It’s at the lowest temp...

What did the chicks end up being? I see this is from 2012 but for future chicks, Look for rounded and pointy feathers as they get older. Hens can also have large combs sometimes so can’t base the sex solely on that. Just depends on the bird themselves and how fast the individual bird grows. When...