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    Egg Candling

    Eggs are candled in commercial farms to remove cracked eggs or those with blood spots. You don't have to do it. It's a quality control thing, and most people buying backyard eggs don't expect store bought perfection.
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    How many chicks will you hatch in 2026?

    Nice! Lucky friend :) I don't keep boys long enough to be slaughtered. If I have a large batch I can usually always find someone to buy the lot to raise out for meat. I've done my own before but decided it's really not worth it to go through that process. It's cool that you do it though.
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    How many chicks will you hatch in 2026?

    I try to sell most of them, but this coming hatch I will be keeping some to replace some of my older breeders. What do you do with your chicks?
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    How many chicks will you hatch in 2026?

    Yes! I have exactly 1/6 so far (50/300) :) and I have 82 in the incubators due to hatch next Friday!
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    How many chicks will you hatch in 2026?

    Both haha. I tend to keep more birds if they don't sell but a lot of times it's panic rushing to set them up in a bigger area. For some reason sales cut off realy sharply May/June (at least in my area). Last few years I was feeling optimistic from the spring rush and hatched a ton only to have a...
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    How many chicks will you hatch in 2026?

    don't let me get carried away! I have a goal for 300 :) and they stop selling after May so I have to be careful not to hatch past then!
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    How many chicks will you hatch in 2026?

    This sounds like an awesome cross. Could be a really cool way to increase blue egg production! And she is lovely :)
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    How many chicks will you hatch in 2026?

    Have to update; 50 hatched out 3 days ago! 26 already found new homes :)
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    Chickens dying.... need help..

    I second a necropsy. This sounds like it could be Avian Leukosis Virus. It seems to be a bigger problem with Legbars than other breeds. Birds who have ALV typically die at point of lay. The ones that die are usually infected vertically (from the mother hen), which is why the rest of the flock...
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    ~10 week old French Black Copper Maran - Pullet or Cockerel?

    x2 on pullet and I also think she's a Legbar cross. Most likely BCM male x Legbar female, which would make her sex-linked. Where did you get her from?
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    Looking for Gallus Brun chicks

    I've never heard of this breed :oops: Posting your location might help! Would you be willing to share more info on them? Google searches aren't turning up much either.
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    Is this a blood ring?

    It's a good egg! A blood ring would be around the width of the egg, not the height. Also, you wouldn't see any veins if an embryo died this early on, the breaking down of those veins is what forms the blood ring. That is a healthy embryo, the ring you are seeing is just the edge of the...
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    What sex is this EE chicken?

    That's a good question, if he's a silver based bird (two copies of silver) I wouldn't expect any red. But silver/gold maybe it would come in later? Honestly not too sure.
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    What sex is this EE chicken?

    Cockerel... a little hard to see in some of the photos but I'm pretty sure I can see 3 rows of peas on his comb, that's a good indication of cockerels in pea-combed breeds. Also the comb shouldn't be this red or large if he were a pullet. At this age male feathers probably wouldn't be coming in...
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    How many chicks will you hatch in 2026?

    Fun thread! Mom thinks 200. Little sister thinks 350. I'm thinking somewhere in between? Going to aim for 300. We'll see how it goes! Need to replace some of my breeding hens (Rhode Island Reds, Buff Orpingtons and Legbars), and RIR lay the best out of those three so probably going to be a lot...
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