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    Open Contest BYC Poultry Caption Contest 02-06-26 Pic by GodLovesU

    You can’t perch there
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    Wrath's Marans

    Yea, I’ve never seen a BCM with any yellow down feathers. I assume it’s genetic but not sure what genes are hiding. I always thought yellow down meant white adult feathers. I had an olive egger cockerel that had blue base color and a yellow belly as a chick. I didn’t think much of it at the time...
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    Wrath's Marans

    On my yard the males are definitely held to a higher standard than the females because they contribute half the genetics to the entire breeding pin. One male services several females. I don’t need to keep nearly as many boys as I do girls. I look for reasons to keep the girls around and I look...
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    Wrath's Marans

    that doesn’t sound right to me. Possibly white or wheaten genetics in the breeding line. Or an olive egger rooster jumped a fence. I’m far from an expert others might have a better explanation than me
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I only recently took up ice fishing. We have such a short season of safe ice that I couldn’t justify the cost of all the gear. A few years ago my father in law gave me some of his older equipment. When we take a shanty and heaters it gets warm enough that you can take you coat and gloves off...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The weather continues to be cold highs in the teens to twenties lows near 0F. Egg production is way down. Everyone seems to be healthy. I haven’t seen any additional frost bite just the some minor damage to large combed birds. The heated drinkers have been mostly working I did have one of the...
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    Ended BYC Poultry Caption Contest 01-23-26 Pic by CombNWattles

    Thanks all who voted I am truly honored however I did win this contest last week. I would prefer to withdraw from the tiebreaker and pass the prize on to @CombNWattles
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    Hello from Indiana!

    Welcome from a fellow Hoosier.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The storm has moved through here. We ended up with about a foot of snow. The 14 day forecast shows lows at or just below 0F and highs in the teens to lower 20s for the next couple weeks. Automatic doors and heated drinkers are working well. Most of the eggs are frozen by the time I collect them...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Two new layers today both are BYM being housed with my Bresse. One from the breeding pin the other from the grow out pin. Sort of boring color but at least they can’t be mistaken for Breese eggs.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The weather forecast is calling for 9-11 inches of snow 20-25 mph winds and temperatures below 0F. The IBC tote tractor that was housing a cockerel and 2 pullets could potentially be completely buried in a snow drift if the prediction is accurate so yesterday evening I moved the trio into the...
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    Ended BYC Poultry Caption Contest 01-23-26 Pic by CombNWattles

    🎶🎶Double your pleasure, double your fun with Double Mint, Double Mint, Double Mint gum🎶🎶
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    Wing It Ranch

    -20f is a whole different kind of cold. I’ve only experienced it a few times that’s the kind of cold you feel in your lungs.
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    Wing It Ranch

    I feel like I can weigh in on this a bit. I’m from Indiana so not the coldest place around but I did work outside in single digit temperatures for a 12 hour shift Monday night. I work at a Walmart Distribution Center. I move semi trailers to and from the dock doors so the people inside the...
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    Wing It Ranch

    The facebook algorithm thought I needed to see this picture. Seems like it needs to be here
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