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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

    Final Entry - Dudley, my naughty Cream Legbar roo.
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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

    #3 - Auntie Broody in our sunny mulberry tree.
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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

    #2 - Limpy and Philly the Barred Rocks in our azaleas.
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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

    #1 - These are my Barred Rock girlies last spring.
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    Friendliest Chickens/Best Personalities??

    Yeah, once you contract the "chicken bug," you're infected for life 😆. I'm currently on our third batch of chicks (we have bunch of grown babies as well) and the whole family is just so in love with them! It truly never gets old ☺️. From one chicken-lover to another, I'm so happy for you!!!
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    Friendliest Chickens/Best Personalities??

    Off topic from the main post but I just had to say, those are the most precious babies! Those little, floofy faces are just :love!!! I love them! We've actively socialized all of our batches of chicks and they've consistently turned out to be the most cuddly babies ever. You're on your way...
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    Cream Legbar, Bielefelder, or Rhodebar? Male or Female?

    Ok, I think we figured it out. We ordered from California but we live in Florida, which is a crazy distance to ship. I knew this at the time but hoped for the best. What I'm thinking is that he might have thrown in an extra male in case of death. Luckily, everyone arrived safe and very...
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    Cream Legbar, Bielefelder, or Rhodebar? Male or Female?

    I believe the cross is Bielefelder/Rhodebar, from the Fertility Page. The link you put of the "Auto-Sexing female" is the bird that I bought. I actually tried to ask what I got, but they only replied back, asking if I'd gotten a packing slip. Apparently, the list of the breeds was on the...
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    Cream Legbar, Bielefelder, or Rhodebar? Male or Female?

    Hello everyone, I just received 16 chicks from Papa's Poultry a few days ago. I bought Opal Legbar, Cream Legbar, Bielefelder mix, and Rhodebar females + one Rhodebar male. I only ordered 9 chicks, but he was very generous and sent me so many extra babies (which I love!!!). The Rhodebar male...
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    Thoughts on Roosters??

    A lot of people have made some very good points, so I'm not sure if what I'm gonna say has already been said. Either way, here goes! My dad has always had this saying and it goes like this: a guard dog is only as effective as the person behind him. In a nut shell, a guard dog can bark and...
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    Thoughts on my future flock?

    I started out with virtually zero knowledge of chickens. Long story but the chickens were a family food source for eggs (not really pets), and then I took over care of them and absolutely fell in love! Still can't believe I managed to think they were "ok" animals for the first three years of...
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    Thoughts on my future flock?

    I guess the bottom line of the discussion above is, if you're going to buy hatchery birds, probably go with the Cream Legbar and Ameraucana instead of the Starlight Greens and Praire Blues. A better bet in terms of reproductive health. I wish you the best with your future flock! You're going...
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    Thoughts on my future flock?

    Honestly, after careful thought myself, breeding mutts in my own flock would probably be a good idea. I've noticed that purebred dogs, cats, etc have waaayyy more problems than your average pound mutt. I ❤️ Australorps by the way! They have such beautiful, dark, soulful looking eyes that I...
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    Thoughts on my future flock?

    Ooooohhhhh! That's gonna be a nice set-up! And you have a lovely yard, if you're planning on doing some free-ranging.
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    Thoughts on my future flock?

    1000% agree! I recently experienced rampant reproductive infections in my own flock of Barred Rocks (just as they reached 2 years of age), and hatchery breeding has been the death of some of my favorite hens. It was just a rabbit hole that I wasn't going to go down for this discussion...
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