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    Ocular Merek's or something else?

    It does look suspiciously like ocular Marek's. I've had Marek's go through a flock and only outwardly affect a couple of birds. The rest carried for life but were healthy acting. I called the sick two and bred from the others as they had Marek's resistance. No signs of Marek's since. She may...
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    I personally have not had a chick under a broody hen successfully take 48 hours to hatch. Usually my hens start hatching on day 19 or 20 with little peeps by the end of 20. By the end of 21, what is going to hatch has hatched. Any egg left, I leave until the hen gets up and moves the hatchling...
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    Hatching Natural eggs

    For the best broody hatches never mix ages of eggs. Always mark and set all eggs at the same time, keeping broody hens designated, and best each separated in an isolated box only that hen has access to with food and water nearby. I have main cooped hatched with mixed sets and multiple hens, but...
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    BCM or "Egger" cockerel?

    Totally could be mixed. Egg color follows specific genetics not a singular breed. I've started with Marans and Welsunmers and have cross bred to Cream Legbar for dark olive....then cross bred back out. I have mixed breeds that lay darker eggs. I also have some feed store Black Sexlinks that are...
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    BCM or "Egger" cockerel?

    It doesn't look pure to me. It looks more Cochin in body style from the front photo angle, though totally wrong tail for Cochin.. Hackle coloring is off too. Also maybe a bit heavy foot feathered more like a Cochin. Though heavy bodied, Marans should still stand somewhat tall and proud. In the...
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    Broody or Bust: Can You Handle a Sitting Hen?

    You can. Put some food and water by them. Many give up in a couple of weeks. Some however will brood until something hatches no matter how long. They can brood themselves sick. Those you may need to break for health sake, but they tend to be difficult to break. I use my broodies, so I never...
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    Hesitating with dispatching them

    Or you look around in your area for a butcher or meat processor who takes them live and whole, you go out for coffee, come back a couple hours later and collect nice meat packages wrapped in brown paper. You may have to go to the outskirts of the city but most places have a business like that in...
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    What will the chicks I’m hatching look like?

    I'll play. It will at least get the thread going with someone telling me how wrong I am :P First off, I'm thinking your Jersey Giant is "blue" not grey as that is the typical type in JG. Blue is what you would see as "blue grey/grey" but it's called blue. A little blue lesson. Blue is a...
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    Splash Ameraucana roo x Starlight Green Egger hen

    One last response I missed your question on Kitty. I'd call it a nice splash...black diluter in both genes. The color you call bleed through on the wings is the common male red wing barring. I've not got the genetics of that down but it must be sex linked as it is a male coloring pattern. If...
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    Splash Ameraucana roo x Starlight Green Egger hen

    My experience first gen the muff beard typically presents in the chicks with one muffed bearded parent. Ditto leg feathers, btw, if you had any leg feathering with Marans, ditto crests like Cream Legbars. 2nd gen you see those fall away if not bred back to the bearded muffed or crested or...
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    Splash Ameraucana roo x Starlight Green Egger hen

    Honey looks buff to me. Blue chicks both sexes with this pairing first generation. Breed those females back to splash dad and you'll get 50% splash and 50% blue both sexes. This first gen pairing will produce 50% two blue shell gene daughters and 50% single blue shell gene daughters. All as...
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    Splash Ameraucana roo x Starlight Green Egger hen

    Honey lays, if I understand correctly green. She has at least one blue shell gene then to create the blue of the actual shell (literally bile thrown into the calcite gland to create blue shell ). Since her outside shell color is medium green, she carries some of the 13 odd genes that create...
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    Dog Pooping on Floor at Night

    Not the ZD. But I checked and it's still vet rx. I agree get meat as first ingredient and no corn.
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    Nest found now what?

    Risky. Put your 2 new chickens somewhere else...into the main flock if ready. Trying to put momma and newly hatched babes in with some new chickens might disrupt things with momma still on eggs at a crucial moment. Chances are the eggs that hatched are all that is going to hatch. Momma will sit...
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    Nest found now what?

    Yes. Most likely she'll hop down, chirp at babes, babes will tumble after....then follow to coop. It may be a bit trying on mom until they all follow as there's always one last scaredy cat. She might lose a few. It's your tolerance level to let things be or intervene. Her location makes...
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