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    Are egg colors/speckles supposed to vary?

    Four hens now! 😁 I'll be able to tell them apart now, haha! Thanks all for your information. Egg colors are so fascinating I'm not disappointed.
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    Are egg colors/speckles supposed to vary?

    These are the eggs I've gotten for the past week or few days. I have two started pullets of unknown breeds (one might be a mix with sapphire gem,) and several pullets that should start laying in just a few days. I wouldn't put it past them to start a little early- and that darkest, speckled...
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    Thoughts on cockerel management?

    I think room does help! I also have a cardboard box and a lidded five-gallon bucket in my coop for the pullets to stand on and eat. Some of my girls are half cochin bantam and, while they're not as sought-after as the big girls, they're still afraid of being mounted and will mostly stay on the...
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    Thoughts on cockerel management?

    Thanks for the advice, you all! This is encouraging. Pretty much what I want to do as it is. I have one more question. Is it stupid to keep a flock of five bantams in with them? Right now they're still young. There isn't really enough room on the top roost for the twenty chickens together, but...
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    Thoughts on cockerel management?

    I have fifteen large teen chickens, five cockerels and ten pullets. Out of these cocks, I know I must be rid of four. Two of them I know I don't want to keep- and the reason is my fault. I petted and held them and now that hormones are raging, they think they can bite onto my hand like they do...
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    Review by 'The Rinaest Rina' in article '10 Ways to Save Money when Raising Chickens'

    Good article. The cheapest place to get chickens, from my experience, is at a local small livestock auction. People bring their animals there in cages and cardboard boxes and they auction them all at random. On a week where there was a lot of chickens, towards the end there was a very nice pair...
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    Near tragedy averted? 😔

    He's okay!
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    Rescue incubating? Half-abandoned or repeatedly-abandoned eggs

    All of them hatched and are now the cutest little twerps I've ever had. 😊 Only one was frizzled like their mom, but that's just fine.
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    Breed of white and black chickens?

    Here's better photos, and also three of another pullet that I am wondering about. She's from a different flock that I'm not at all familiar with.
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    Breed of white and black chickens?

    My friend does, I got these eggs from hers. I knew you would be a case of barnyard scramble, but I was hoping for a few clues- if these white chicks look something like a breed you are familiar with lemme know. The above pics are old- I'm about to get new ones.
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    Breed of white and black chickens?

    I have these white chicks with black splotches, and I don't know what breed they are. Some are half cochin bantam, resulting in feathery feet, but I'm hoping their coloring can give clues as to their other parent. However, this is unreliable because siblings of theirs who took after the cochin's...
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    Age and breed guesses?

    Pretty Paloma! She looks fibro melanistic too. I really don't know if sapphire gem chooks can come that way, perhaps she's half something else, or something else entirely!
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    Age and breed guesses?

    I also looked into lavender orps, and yeah, she definitely looks less like them than I assumed by the name. I just hope she's still a pullet and that's why she hasn't laid... She doesn't look very ample and pillowy, either, like a full grown hen might be, so maybe that's truly the case.
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    Age and breed guesses?

    Just looked it up. She does look like that, with the darker head feathers! But I think Ruthie is prettier than the ones they showed :D
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    Newbie in need of chicken ID help!

    Congrats on the pretty chickens! Your black, white-spangled lady looks just like my mystery girl, so thanks for posting.
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