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She’s wheezing a bit now - I am guessing that suggests an upper respiratory infection

No bubbles, I was looking for that too. Her eyes look a bit better now that she’s out of the sun. She ate a scrambled egg happily. I will call the vet- that’s a good idea, thanks!

I have a 2 year old dark Brahma hen. She hasn’t laid in 2-3 weeks or so. The last few days I noticed she wasn’t running for treats so I gave her an exam. Has lost weight, no lice/mites, clear eyes/breathing. Eyes look a tiny bit swollen to me though (pic below). No injuries. Crop feels small...

Aaah that makes sense now thank you. So if this rooster has one copy of the barring gene he would pass that on to all chicks? (He might have some brown leghorn) or just some? Is that trait recessive? (So he’d need two copies to look barred?) You’d never know i took AP biology in high school lol.

“Males will have a larger, lighter spot on their heads, and lighter colored legs, too. Females will have a smaller, darker spot on their heads, and will have darker legs. The males will be lighter grayish/goldish colored with big head spots and the females will be brown with small head spot.”...

This is what I was working off, with the assumption he was not barred. http://nmcpoultry.com/gc_maran.htm If he does have leghorn then he must have a barred gene which throws this off.

I must be confused. The Marans moms had white solid circle head spots as chicks. I thought it wasn’t the existence of the spot, but its size/definition for Marans.

I mean I suppose he could be single factor? Is that a dominant trait ?

That’s golden cuckoo mom next to him

The rooster is not barred. Here he is. We think there is some brown leghorn in there. He hatched from a blue egg but I know that doesn’t mean he has blue egg genes.

Gotcha.

Just hatched Marans x Easter egger eggs (golden cuckoo and blue cuckoo moms, Easter egger dad) and wondering if the head spot autosexing will still apply? Here are the 5. I think I have 3 girls and two boys. Ideas? This one (Tormund) I think boy-huge white splash. Golden cuckoo (I think...might...

Are any of yours autosexing OP? I think my Marans are (should be even with a non Marans dad) and I’m trying to figure them out. I think I have 2 boys and 3 girls out of those 5. Plus I have a crested cream legbar that I’m sure is a girl because she looks exactly like her mom as a chick! Here’s...

I do but we like to play with them a lot when they are tiny - it's harder to do that out in the coop. Have raised several batches this way, and used to have them in the garage as in-between but had a weasel in the garage last winter so that's a NOPE.

I do have some pics! They are in an old rabbit cage with a premier 1 heater - not a heat lamp. On my washer and dryer in my laundry/bathroom :) they will stay there for a week or so and then go into a puppy playpen in the basement and then into my old coop before they get integrated with the...