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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    This was my least favorite chicken (doesn't even pretend to love me) until she laid her first egg! This was Cream Legbar daddy and unknown chocolate layer mommy (at least I'm pretty sure it was out of a brown egg). Next to Wheaten Ameraucana and Olive Egger eggs.
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    Legbar? Legbar eggs?

    Thanks, all. The gal who rents out her land only knows that the chickens were some "really expensive" breed that the renter got from the "east coast." The renter has a dozen or so gorgeous BCM hens and these two. There's no selling of hatching eggs or chicks going on. But the renter's been...
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    Legbar? Legbar eggs?

    I've got a friend who rents out a coop that houses Black Copper Marans and an expensive mystery rooster and hen; the rooster covers all the hens in that flock. She also has her own coop with an Olive Egger roo that covers "his" girls which includes some Barred Rocks, Ameraucanas, a blue Marans...
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    Wheaten Ameracauna - please let me finally have a girl!

    I think that answers my question. When I gave away Will Wheaten (who I saw at Comic-Con and refrained from telling him I'd named a chicken after him) - she was at least two months and still entirely blond. When I said she looked mottled, she looked like she had poorly-defined lacing on each...
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    Wheaten Ameracauna - please let me finally have a girl!

    Great info! Thanks, Kev. These were pics of a single bird. Glad to hear it's a pullet since it's my son's pick. I felt moderately confident, but I didn't know what all those dark feathers were about. Follow up question, if I might? One of the four I hatched had more mottled looking...
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    Wheaten Ameracauna - please let me finally have a girl!

    My first ever hatch was ridiculously successful. And while I hatched about 50/50 on the pullet/cockerel ratio - as would be expected, apparently I suck at sexing chickens and kept a lot of boys. So I'm down to three babies from my hatch of 22 chicks after having to move out a bunch of roos...
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    Any hope that this Buff Orpington is a girl?

    He's super sweet and not crowing yet, but since it's inevitable and he's at the right age for meat, I arranged to have someone else process him. I was reading up on caponizing (never had any idea that was a thing!) just last night to see if that would keep him from crowing, but it seems like...
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    Any hope that this Buff Orpington is a girl?

    I'm trying to accept reality. I'm over in the processing forum right now to see if I can go through with it. I hate to put all this spoiling and expensive treats into him and not get anything back. He's from my first ever and only incubation attempt, so I'm working my way up to the inevitable...
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    Any hope that this Buff Orpington is a girl?

    14 weeks, 2 days I admit it, I'm probably in denial, but after reading about spurs, I'm grasping at anything that might let me keep this sweetheart. Pretty much everything about this bird says roo, even to my newbie eyes: giant legs, redder, larger comb than sister, fountain tail. But...
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    What's going on with this black sizzle roo?

    So, the majority vote was correct: this little guy turned out to be a guy. He's supposed to be a black silkie/black frizzled cochin mix. What's up with the gold highlights he's getting in his neck feathers (is there a real term for those?)? Is that normal? He's also getting some white along...
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    Black Frizzled [???] - need gender and breed ID

    Well, y'all know your birds! He started crowing yesterday at 5:30 am (or maybe he's been crowing and we've just not noticed with the fans going.) He's sleeping indoors until we can find a new home!
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    Black Sizzle Roo (and maybe a Buff Orpington!) needs a new home near San Diego

    This is Fluff, the pet of my 8-year-old. We hatched him on 4/15/13 and this morning, we discovered she is a he. And since we're not supposed to have chickens at all, a rooster will surely give us away! I've been told he's a Sizzle. I know he's a cross between a black silkie and a frizzled...
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    Black Frizzled [???] - need gender and breed ID

    Yes, he has five toes, although some of the claws (toenails?) are light. From the information I had, I inferred there was a silkie rooster and a mix of silkie hens and frizzled cochin hens. I wasn't sure if it matter who the chick-daddy was whether it was called a sizzle or not. Looks like...
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    Black Frizzled [???] - need gender and breed ID

    I ordered and hatched some black silky eggs. I was forewarned that "The black silkies will not all be pure silkies as we have a bk frizzled bantam cochin in w/them right now, and we wont know until they hatch." I took that to mean that they would be at least half black silky, but perhaps I'm...
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    Buff Orpington - 3 months

    I hatched four Buff Orpingtons on 4/15/13. One was noticeably larger than the rest and I moved him out early assuming it was a cockerel. Two were noticeably feminine. Now that I'm down to a girly one and mystery chick #3, s/he's looking absolutely giant to me. Is Dixie a Dick? Thanks in...
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