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    Cross bred chicken project

    *Posting as a way to keep record* I have kept egg laying hens for a few years now and I recently (2 years ago) was gifted a gamefowl rooster. I decided to experiment and see if I could raise and hatch my own chickens instead of purchasing from my local hatchery. My laying hens have never gone...
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    Help identifying feather color genetics

    Oh okay thank you so much, and a follow up question. Would I be able to produce a silver rooster by breeding this silver hen to a sweater and then breeding that offspring back to the same silver hen?
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    Help identifying feather color genetics

    The pure sweater are wheaten colored, and the asil/sweater cross are also wheaten in color
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    Help identifying feather color genetics

    I have hatched second generation gamefowl x barred rocks and have a question regarding the color genetics of a certain offspring that came out with a head that is white with black marking and the rest of the body color resembling that of my gamefowl. The pairing was a 1/2 barred rock/ sweater...
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    How do I prevent blood ring in hatching eggs left outside?

    I live in zone 9b and the temperature now reaches a high of 102 degrees. I have allowed my hen to lay in her nest without collecting her eggs so she can go broody, but after candling the first two I noticed blood ring. I’m guessing the heat has made the eggs begin development but then died soon...
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    Gamefowl x laying hen

    I have a sweater/asil rooster that I croosed with a black australorp hen. I was hoping to produce more hens to have as layers but the majority of the clutch came out as boys and the three hens I did end up with were lost to predators due to them escaping their pens. I ended up keeping one of the...
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