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    55 Flowery, Crested Cream Legbar day olds. Too early to tell gender?

    Lucky! She's such a pretty thing too! I learned when we hatched opal and cream legbars that the back striping is considered the most important factor in sexing them. Super defined is female, blurred out should be male. Eyes stripes and heads spots are secondary. A breeder who was breeding for...
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    Gender and possible parentage guesses

    My guess is... Roo Roo Roo Roo Pullet Roo Pullet It's early to know for sure, but in my limited experience, any hint of redness in the comb before 10 weeks is a good sign for being a rooster. 🤷‍♀️
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    What color patterns are these mixed breed chickens?

    I hope this is the right place to ask. I'm interested in learning more about the genetics of our flock mostly for fun, and a little for what to expect when breeding next year and for rooster selection. We started out with Bovan Browns, then got a couple Barnyard mixed birds and though the...
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    Want to take a guess on this Brahma?

    Only been raising chicks this summer (50+ chicks though and all kinds of combs), but any that looked so dark pink/red that early turned out to be cockerels for sure. 😣
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    Any Opal/Split Legbar chick sexing experts?

    Got their 6 week/off heat updated pics today. They're actually 7 weeks but close enough. Thought it could be helpful for someone in the future. I've dotted them red for probably pullets, blue for definitely cockerels.
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    Any Opal/Split Legbar chick sexing experts?

    6 week update! Pretty sure this is how it's turning out for us. 1 cream pullet & 2 cream cockerels (very obvious now that they've got feathers, plus cockerels combs have been reddening over the last week or two) 2 opal cockerels for sure and 2- 3 opal pullets. The barring is very subtle and hard...
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    Nurture Right 360 Inside vs. Outside Ring

    No, I didn’t know to do that last time, but I’m thinking of doing it next time/next year.
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    Nurture Right 360 Inside vs. Outside Ring

    Yes, mine is exactly like this. 🤦‍♀️ Perfect temps on the outer ring and 98.0-98.5 on the inside ring. I only realized after I just finished a hatch last Friday. I had marked the inner ring eggs. I think 14 out of 16 outer ring eggs hatched, but only 2 out of 6 inner ring eggs hatched. Both...
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    What are some chicken breeds you wish that you have, but you don’t yet?

    For beauty and eggs... Speckled Sussex Australorp Isabel Ameraucana! And Niederrheiner, if one day we can do meat birds.
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    Sexing 2 week old Wheaten Ameraucana and Barred Rocks?

    A pullet, as I suspected! She sprouted white breast feathers shortly after I posted. This is her now at 13 weeks. She's a favorite. 😍
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    Sexing 2 week old Wheaten Ameraucana and Barred Rocks?

    You were correct! 2 pullets, and 2 cockerels.
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    Any Opal/Split Legbar chick sexing experts?

    This is an auto-sexing breed, so they should be sexable by down color, but I'm new to having this breed. I think I know for sure about 4-5 of them, the chick at the top is clearly male, and two of the splits look to be male as well, but not sure about the others. A couple have nice distinct...
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    What color is this going to be? (BYM chicks)

    Abbreviation for barnyard mix. 🙂
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    What color is this going to be? (BYM chicks)

    So we hatched some chicks from our own chickens 3-4 weeks ago. We also hatched some purebred bought eggs, but we had dividers in the incubator that mostly worked 😆, so I'm pretty sure this chick is BYM and that we watched it hatch from a Bovan Brown egg. The chick was yellow with just a hint of...
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    Review by 'Northstardreams' in article 'Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry'

    This guide was super helpful. I saved two malpositioned but otherwise strong and healthy chicks so far that would not have hatched by themselves. I plan to do the same with any incubated eggs in future that need just a little helping hand to enter the world.
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