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    Project Free Bird

    PROJECT FREE BIRD Question: Can chickens be raised entirely on pasture without any commercial feed? Goal: Spend nothing (or as close as possible) on a flock of pastured chickens. Rules: - Only purchase necessities, - attempt to reuse or recycle as much of the project as possible. - Any...
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    Cattle panel

    I used some CP to make a subfloor for my chicken trailer, which was then covered with 1/4" hardware cloth.
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    Blue Wyandotte crosses

    Update: I took a job as a farmer on an organic farm, and was able to take my chickens with me. This is good news as now I have space and incentive to continue my selective breeding. I also put another batch of eggs in the incubator and they hatched on Easter. I filled it to capacity with 42...
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    Blue Wyandotte crosses

    All of the chicks found good homes.
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    Blue Wyandotte crosses

    Beautiful chicks
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    Blue Wyandotte crosses

    Of course, being hybrids, these chicks will not inherit all traits evenly from both parents. Some will look like a cross of the parents while some will look more like one parent than the other and some might not look much like either parent. My predictions are that the barred rock and...
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    Blue Wyandotte crosses

    The other mothers are a pair of beautiful Welsummers. Well, at least one is a Welsummer... I am pretty sure that the darker one might be a Partridge Plymouth Rock. Both of these chickens are good layers and have a good temperament. They have a wonderful disposition and generally do not give...
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    Blue Wyandotte crosses

    Two other mothers are a Barred Plymouth Rock and a Dominique, both of which possesses the barred gene. The chicks of this cross should be sex linked: 25% will be blue barred and male, 25% will be black barred and male, 25% will be all blue and female, 25% will be all black and female. So In...
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    Blue Wyandotte crosses

    Two of The mothers are a pair of Americuanas/easter eggers who are tufted and passed that trait onto the offspring, so you can tell the easter Egger chicks from the others by their tufted cheeks or "chipmunk" appearance. These mothers prolifically lay blue tinted eggs; the eggs are turquoise...
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    Blue Wyandotte crosses

    Thankfully I was able to find a good home for the chicks. This was my first time selectively breeding chickens and incubating and hatching eggs and as one might imagine, I am not only scientifically interested in these chicks but also a bit emotionally invested as well. I set up this thread so...
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    Blue Wyandotte crosses

    Note to MOD: please place this thread in the correct forum (maybe Pictures & Stories of My Chickens, im not sure) This thread is more for my own records and so the people who are raising my crosses can compare notes. However, if someone else accidentally learns something from this thread, then...
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