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    Wrath's Marans

    Looks like we have broodys at the same time again this year. I gave my Jersey Gena 10 eggs on Tuesday afternoon. 6 pure Bresse and 4 Bresse x Olive Egger. If I understand the genetics they should feather out ermine pattern with a 50% chance of laying green.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    That is a wing band ID tag. The advantage to a wing band over leg bands is that the bird never outgrows it. It is a piercing and will stay there for the life of the bird. It will eventually be hidden by feathers but still there and readable if you catch the bird and spread the feathers out...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The chicks are two weeks old and have been weighed. I didn’t keep records of the parent stock at this age so I don’t have anything to compare them to but each other. Their legs are beginning to turn blue. Still too early to make reasonable guesses on gender but numbers 3,5,&6 do look like the...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I gave Gena 10 eggs for hatching today. Six of them are American Bresse and four are from an unnamed olive egger pullet being housed in the Breese breeding pin. That pullet really needs a name. She’s super friendly she’s the closest thing I’ve ever had to a lap chicken. When I feed them she...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Just a couple updates. The runt Bresse died last night. It was squashed flat when I found it. I don’t know if it died as the result of being squished or if it died first then got walked trampled. I was surprised it lived as long as it did. It looked like it was failing to thrive The Broody...
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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    Interesting, i didn’t even know Lavender was an option. Sometimes I miss my Marans but I have I only have so much pin space and most of it is reserved for Bresse this season. I’m trying to be more intentional about breeding decisions not just letting the chickens make all the decisions.
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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    Are you shipping or receiving these? I know you’re on the other side of the world so I’m not trying to get a set for myself just curious.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The six Bresse that appear healthy have been wing banded and weighed. I didn’t give the runt a band because it’s a definite cull. It is eating so I’ll keep it around and see if it grows but I’ve seen enough to know it’s not going to move my flock forward so it won’t be part of the breeding...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Looks like I have the first broody hen of the season. Jersey Gena is sleeping in a nest box. She has been showing some broody behavior for a week or so but wasn’t ready to commit. When I collected eggs today she had that look in her eye and she really let out a growl. I haven’t decided what to...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I had 9 eggs hatch, most of them were a full day late. Two look like runts and appear to be failing to thrive, they are eating and drinking but not growing nearly as quickly as the seven healthy ones. I believe the incubator was just a bit too cold. I reset the incubator 35 Bresse eggs and 12...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Today is hatch day. All the pacing I did yesterday seems to have paid off. I went to bed with no external pips and only occasionally thought I might have heard something but it always stopped when I ran over to look. This morning I woke up to see seven pips. We’re up to nine pips at the time of...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Day 20 of incubation, all is quiet so far. The pacing begins
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    Ended BYC Poultry Caption Contest 03-06-26 Pic by Leaderofthefluffybutts

    This new sauna really helps loosen up my tight muscles and I smell amazing.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Today is day 16 of incubation I did the final candling and removed 3 quitters. 17 eggs remaining 14 American Bresse and 3 Olive Eggers. I’ll bring up the humidity on Saturday I expect to start seeing pips on Tuesday and chicks on Wednesday
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    Wrath's Marans

    Sorry for your loss
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