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    Humidity too High, How Drastically Can I Adjust Before Hatch?

    Thanks for the reply! I will try to take the eggs out, soak up the water, and put them back in. Cross your fingers and toes for me. These babies have apparently been at 60-70% with even higher spikes most of the incubation period. I imagine I'll have a lot of drowned chicks :(
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    Muscovy genetics/colors??

    I'd like to similarly piggyback. I am getting a group of 5 ducklings straight run. One black, one chocolate and 3 my choice of blue, lavender, chocolate or black. Obviously I won't know which will end up hens or drakes but I'd like to maximize my chances of eventually being able to retain one...
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    Humidity too High, How Drastically Can I Adjust Before Hatch?

    I have realized recently that my humidity has been WAYYYY too high throughout incubation (equipment issues). Hatch day is in 5 days. What should I do? Can I very drastically reduce humidity by opening the thing a billion times today (there's still water in the troughs and it's not feasible to...
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    What is your favorite way to keep multiple roosters?

    That's SO similar to my situation! AWESOME! Have you had issues when bringing roos back into the main flock, other than minor scuffling? Do you do anything that helps to ease tensions when you reintegrate?
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    What is your favorite way to keep multiple roosters?

    It's not clear to me if you mean you yourself are swapping roosters between flocks? If so, any issues with that?
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    What is your favorite way to keep multiple roosters?

    Thanks for the response. I'm glad you are able to keep three roos in each flock. How many hens do you have in each of your flocks, on average? Have you had any problems when you swap the 'alpha' roos and they squabble?
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    What is your favorite way to keep multiple roosters?

    I know that this is an often discussed topic and I have read the pertinent threads but I'd love some advice specific to my situation, or sounding boards to bounce off of people. I have a 'main' chicken coop *without* a run and free range my chickens from that. I have room in it for about 30...
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    Genetics Gurus Please Help! Working Towards True Breeding Olive Eggers

    Thank you! The two light ones have similar combs and the dark ones have similar combs (no nodules on the side). It's quite a coincidence that the only grey ones got that comb, and all the dark ones got the other comb. I didn't think there was a link between feather color and comb type.. is there???
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    Genetics Gurus Please Help! Working Towards True Breeding Olive Eggers

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    Genetics Gurus Please Help! Working Towards True Breeding Olive Eggers

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    Genetics Gurus Please Help! Working Towards True Breeding Olive Eggers

    Now that I have gotten a couple pictures to go through, my phone was not having it for a while.. these are all from black Copper Maran over my Easter Egger who is heterozygous for both pea comb and blue egg. I'm trying to determine if it is the grey chicks who will have heterozygous pea and the...
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    Genetics Gurus Please Help! Working Towards True Breeding Olive Eggers

    4 weeks old. Old enough to determine comb type?
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    Genetics Gurus Please Help! Working Towards True Breeding Olive Eggers

    Well she laid a very blue but not green egg. I'll breed her to my BCM roo and of course see if I get any girls that lay brown (not green) eggs, but that means I have to keep her daughters separate/marked/banded from thing 1s (EE with heterozygous pea comb and heterozygous blue) until they start...
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    Genetics Gurus Please Help! Working Towards True Breeding Olive Eggers

    Bluebell turned out to be a he :/ I was just given this Easter egger in a batch of birds. There were a bunch of birds and he said he thinks one lays green. Everyone is in quarantine and no green eggs so far but it's ferbruary, she is anywhere from 1 to 2.5, and she just moved, so I'm not all...
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    Sudden Death in New Chickens? Contageous?

    Thank you for your reply! I will keep them separate for a month and will check for everything you mentioned. My friends know the deal and will also plan to isolate.
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