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    Welsummer not confirming

    I keep hoping I am being paranoid about the SLW but it also has almost no lacing at 8 weeks. McMurray keeps saying they are all too young... those 1st two are the roosteriest roosters who have ever rostered :/
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    Welsummer not confirming

    McMurray. It has been 6-7 years since I ordered and I am kind of shocked.
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    Welsummer not confirming

    I only ordered 6 chicks. A Whiting True Blue (black with faint lacing), Whiting True Green (cream colored with some darker spots... definitely a cockerel), Couvacures (black with an Elvis hairdo), Cream Legbar (grey with the poof) and a silver laced wyandotte (is not developing the lacing the...
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    Welsummer not confirming

    I got a sexed Welsummer day old chick. Had the correct head markings for a pullet & of all the birds to get wrong it never occurred to me it would be a Wellie. 3 weeks comb got huge & wattles started coming in. Has some black in the feathers but not like what everyone says roosters get. I’m...
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    Crazy Red Coloring… any guesses?

    He lists these * Icenlandic * lavender and Columbian and laced wyandottes *Rhode Island Red * Barred Rocks *white and brown leg horns * splash and buff and lavender Orpingtons * Australorps *Dominique *Ameracauna But I got such a wild mix from this guy. I wound up hatching a Zombie, a Cuckoo...
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    Crazy Red Coloring… any guesses?

    Some of his red is RED like I’ve not seen before. Plus he has this sparkly iridescence. I’d think if he was 1/2 RIR he’d be bigger? He was so small as a chick that I double checked to be sure there were no secret bantams in the flock. I can’t get over how pretty he is.
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    Crazy Red Coloring… any guesses?

    This is Genghis & He’s auditioning to be “The” Rooster. But not being sure what exactly he will pass down is giving me pause. He’s a 12 week old BYM that I hatched. I think he’s an Icelandic maybe Ameracauna cross??? I know they had both. I don’t think he’s full Icelandic, but who knows. He...
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    Runty Gosling - A Doose? Sick? Dwarf?

    I haven't picked it up. But it is active and not weezy or sickly looking. But it is like it stopped growing 2 weeks ago. Had that other one not died so suddenly I would be less paranoid. At hatch they all came same day and were all the same size. Not sure what if anything I can do for it other...
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    Duck Mating questions (Do I need an 18+ age warning? JK)

    Drakes are epic rapists. You need to get rid of/separate/butcher your extras ASAP. They will not leave the females alone and will hurt them. My drake also rapes chickens and kept bothering my goose while she was nesting.
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    Welsh harlequins...Male? Female? Ugh help!

    Are their quacks different? My drake sounds completely different from my females and his tail feathers curl up a bit. I thought it was just him, but apparently those are general male duck traits. (Mine is a Blue Swedish)
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    Runty Gosling - A Doose? Sick? Dwarf?

    My Toulouse Geese ... Hate and Karen hatched all 6 of the eggs she had in her nest. It shocked me. They are curmudgeon idiots :) They loooove taking their brood on "adventures" because they think they own the road in front of my house and like to chase cars/pedestrians/children on...
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    Could coloring be sex linked? Rouen/Blue Swedish crosses

    My egg ducks have decided they are meat producers this summer... endless secret nests. I have one Drake. He is a Blue Swedish. I have 2 Rouens and 2 Gold Star Hybrids. One Rouen nest has hatched (the three in my profile picture) and one Gold has hatched a nest. There are 3 more nests out in the...
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    Bush Alaskan with farming genes

    I have been looking at threads for years & finally made an account I live off the road system in very remote rural Alaska. Every year when the daylight comes back my farmer genetics kick in and I am compelled to acquire farm animals. I live on the tundra but my lot/yard is small, it is a very...
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