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    random mutation or something to watch out for?

    managed to get a better look at the birds feet. the tips were getting kind of long on those claws and they were twisting quite a lot. got them trimmed and it turns out they are hollow with thin walls, kind of like the shaft of a feather. could they just be deformed feathers? im sure that this...
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    random mutation or something to watch out for?

    just looked it up. everything i found here and on google for "fifth toe" was normal polydactyly which at least in chickens seems to mainly effect the first/inner/back/thumb position (take your pick of descriptor) toe and then goes up the leg from there, nothing about a claw or extra toe doing...
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    random mutation or something to watch out for?

    i hatched out 14 chicks about 2 months ago, father is a french blue copper maran and mothers are a mix of breeds (these are just for laying eggs so no need to keep to a breed). out of the 14, 2 came from eggs from my easter egger (identified by their fluffy faces and the blue green eggs they...
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    candling question on tan & light brown eggs

    could understand a few being like that but all of them? thats about 20 eggs from 4 different hens (black sex link, white rock, gold laced wyandotte, and a few silkie eggs). eggs were handled carefully, not shaken or anything. and how could i have ended up with 3 chicks from eggs that looked like...
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    candling question on tan & light brown eggs

    top 2 rows are randomly picked light brown eggs from the incubator and photos much more yellow then they are. first set of 2 (good eggs) are from the olive eggs. bottom pair are blue eggs and definitely not developing (no red color or hint of veining and the yolk is a yellow shadow), the blue...
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    candling question on tan & light brown eggs

    if they were infertile why would they be a different color then the ones that are obviously infertile (solid red gold vs the clear with visible yolk)? ive been comparing them to the ones that show development and ones from the same hens that are not incubated (same as candling infertile). and...
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    candling question on tan & light brown eggs

    the light im using is showing the same detail in the dark olive eggs as id see in white ones so i wouldnt think thats the problem since the olive eggs are several shades darker then the light brown ones im having trouble with. if you use...
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    candling question on tan & light brown eggs

    hoping im not being overly hopeful here, but i am starting to wonder about a few eggs in my incubator. I currently have a filled incubator (~44 eggs) with another 8 under a broody, 12 in the incubator are from one local chicken owner (legbars and olive eggers), 12 are from another local...
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    chick speculation

    there is no way for monster to have been the father of chick 1 or 2. he had a single comb and both those chicks have rose combs. only chick 3 has a single comb. the chicks have started feathering, chick 1 is quite a ways behind the others (2 & 3 are feathering faster then any chicks ive had...
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    chick speculation

    my flock is very mixed (mostly one of this and one of that) so i can tell who laid which egg for the most part. the entire next had 10 eggs in it when she went broody, 8 were hers, 1 was from my barred rock (darker and smaller), and 1 was white. only 4 of the eggs from my white rock turned out...
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    chick speculation

    short info for those that dont want to read the whole post: have fun trying to figure out the genetics these 3 chicks might have. mother is a hatchery white rock, father is a silver laced wyandotte, second possible father i dont know the breed of. full story: just had a trio of chicks hatch...
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    sexing 7-8 week old french blue copper marans

    figured id give updates every few days or as needed as the chicks mature. might seem like im ignoring the very real likeliness that its a boy, im just hoping it isnt until it shows proof it absolutely is. with any luck this might help anyone else with a similar bird. a long post, but lots of...
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    sexing 7-8 week old french blue copper marans

    wow, all the way on the other side of the country, would be a bit hard to take any unwanted birds i guess. and if you mean Alchemist Farm then supposedly thats where my pair came from, or at least where their last owners claim to have gotten them. never heard of them until i looked it up after...
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    sexing 7-8 week old french blue copper marans

    photos finally transferred, these are the best of the batch. if any specific shots might help i can try getting them, just let me know whats needed. during the last photo (it went on for a while), the second chick was just wandering around ignoring it.
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    sexing 7-8 week old french blue copper marans

    having a pair to breed would be nice, but seeing as i got this pair free its ok if both are boys. sad to say but i have a bad track record with keep roosters, had one commit suicide, several either run away or get caught by the local hawk and carried off, a few died of mysterious causes (healthy...
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