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    Mixed Breed Photo Reference *please read guidelines in first post before adding content*

    Has anyone crossed a Silver Spangled Hamburg (roo) with a Barred Rock hen? I couldn't find a pic anywhere but think that could be a good cross I could try. I'm just curious what the pattern would be...
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    Welarans, Welsummer x Marans

    The 5 chipmunk striped chicks are our 3 day old Black Copper Marans (dad) and Welsummer crosses. Interestingly, they are so much fluffier than our other chicks!
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    Totally lost as to what breed this cockerel is!

    Ah, thanks! Looking at pics of partridge chantecler chicks, yes, I definitely see that. I could never find another chick that looked exactly like he did, with the speckles, chipmunk stripe, and no tail, but those are a match.
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    Totally lost as to what breed this cockerel is!

    Wow, you may be right! I had not ever considered he could be a buckeye and I know nothing about that breed, but he certainly looks very similar to pictures online!
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    Totally lost as to what breed this cockerel is!

    This is my original thread asking about his breed when he was a chick. It has a pic of him then of that is helpful. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/mystery-chick-please-help.1356786/
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    Totally lost as to what breed this cockerel is!

    I posted here several months ago asking for breed help when this guy (pretty sure he's a roo, now, anyway!) was a little chick. I try to post a link to that thread below if I can find it. Anyway, I got a lot of suggestions, and felt fairly confident he was a barnevelder. That's what he looked...
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    Introducing hens to a coop with a hen and chicks

    Thanks for both of your replies. We ended up moving them in last night and they appear to all be doing well today. Mama hen moved herself and chicks to a different nest area in a more secluded spot in the coop. This coop is a former horse barn. There's another coop right beside it, but my silkie...
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    Any guess on the color egg this chick will lay?

    I will try to post a pic tomorrow when it come out of the incubator, but I hatched an egg from an adult hen I purchased from someone. She was still fertilized from the previous owner's rooster. The mama hen is an Easter Egger and the rooster is a mix- his mom was half Blue Copper Marans (don't...
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    Introducing hens to a coop with a hen and chicks

    A month ago we bought 7 year old hens, and have been keeping them in a chicken tractor in quarantine. Now we are ready to move them into our coop with our head rooster and his 3 hens. Problem is, one of the 3 hens turned broody and just hatched out 8 chicks over the weekend and is in the same...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest - Guess When We'll Reach 400,000 Members!

    06/11/20 8:00pm
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    Tiny Runt Bantam Cochin

    Interesting. Well that gives me hope that she can live to adulthoood, at least. This morning my husband found one of our hen's chicks outside the coop and very cold, almost dead. He brought her in and I gave her sugar water and held her under a heat lamp, and now she's perked up and seems fine...
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    Spekeled Sussex Chick 5-5 weeks

    My Sussexes are all 4 weeks old, all supposed to be pullets, and none have a comb as large as your chick's! Nowhere near that size. That alone makes me think cockerel.
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    Tiny Runt Bantam Cochin

    I bought 4 bantam cochins 3 weeks ago, and they should be about 4 weeks old now. One of them, whom I call Tiny, just isn't growing at he same rate as the others. Her sisters are twice as big as she is, and much more developed in general. She eats, drinks, and poops, and I've cleaned her vent...
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    Mystery Chick- please help!

    I did some research last night, and now I'm convinced she's a barnevelder! A female barnevelder, because apparently the v-shape on her head tends to suggests female in that breed. The lack of tail feathers also makes sense, as barnevelders don't develop then until later. I'm excited! Thank you...
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    Mystery Chick- please help!

    Now I want to go examine her comb to check! Unfortunately it will have to wait til tomorrow...I was just holding her today and didn't notice much of a comb at all, but I didn't move any fluff out of the way to check.
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