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    Will you raise a chicken breed you do not like?

    I think, possibly, that this might be a case of the owner not feeling equal to the challenges of the breed. If they raise chickens as pets, then getting a breed with a known shortened lifespan is just inviting heartbreak, you know? It’s not the chicken’s fault, and it doesn’t mean a broiler...
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    Whiting Blue Color Pattern

    Oh, well then! Yes, he should have ??? for feather-color genetics, and 2 blue alleles for egg-color genetics, meaning his daughters would be ???-colored and lay 100% blue/green eggs! ^x^
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    Whiting Blue Color Pattern

    To my (limited) understanding, the lack of standardized coloration in Whiting True Blues is meant to be a feature, not a bug, as they were initially bred to provide feathers for Mr. Whiting’s fly fishing lures, and having the widest possible color variety of long, high-quality hackle feathers...
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    Friendly chicken - Speckled Sussexes, Rocks, or Australorps??

    Our favs are besties with our Speckled Sussex (just after each other,) but that might be more a function of them being at the bottom of the totem pole than anything else. (The favs are dramatic goofballs whose first reaction to most things is to run away screaming- fortunately they have each...
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    Any Midnight Majesty Marans Egg Pictures?

    It is! Blackberry’s a good girl. :love
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    Any Midnight Majesty Marans Egg Pictures?

    Have confirmed that the light brown eggs are being laid by Blackberry- I heard the “clonk” just before she left the nest box. (Every day I add a little extra straw to the nests, and every day they kick it out again. So eggs go “clonk.”) Here’s pics of Blackberry and May making judgmental faces...
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    Any Midnight Majesty Marans Egg Pictures?

    Got 3 eggs today, 2 of which I can recognize as from our girls who were already laying, and the third is probably (but not certainly) from Blackberry (our MMM.) It looks like she’s also laying light tan: Newest, probably-Blackberry egg on the top, nearest Blackberry in the background. The...
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    Any Midnight Majesty Marans Egg Pictures?

    Well, since other people are posting pics now and the eggs are pretty dark, it’s entirely possible that I’m wrong in one or more ways. Like, maybe either MMMs aren’t all F1 crosses, or That Thing I Read Somewhere was less than accurate. I littered that post with question marks for a reason, and...
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    Any Midnight Majesty Marans Egg Pictures?

    Sooo, I’ve been thinking. MMMs are an F1 sex-link hybrid between BC Marans and Barred Rock, right? But I heard somewhere that the really dark-dark brown egg genes are mostly recessive. So, you generally wouldn’t see those genes expressed in a first generation hybrid, even if your girls were...
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    Any Midnight Majesty Marans Egg Pictures?

    We’ve got one, but she’s not for-sure laying yet. Will get back with photos if I catch her in the act!
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    Are salmon favorelles actually as cuddly as they say

    With the caveat that I’ve only had them for a little over 3 months- mine have been very enthusiastic to get up in my lap (though not as insistent about it as my Wyandotte, Sophie, who will zero in on a lap or even an outstretched arm as soon as it becomes available, and thereafter refuse to...
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    Hey guys, is this barring? (Sapphire Gem mighta fooled us all.)

    Yeah, the stripey pattern I was worried about only seems to show up on the ends of her wing feathers, and it was difficult to get photos of it at all. It’s just 2 or 3 alternating darker and lighter bands on the end of each primary feather, and it’s pretty faint. Honestly, she was looking...
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    Hey guys, is this barring? (Sapphire Gem mighta fooled us all.)

    Awesome, cool. One more we don’t have to worry about rehoming! She’s a sweetheart, too, once she warms up to you. :) I’m really glad you guys are here to ask. I didn’t know what to make of that stripey pattern- they only seem to show on the ends of her flight feathers, not even on her...
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    Hey guys, is this barring? (Sapphire Gem mighta fooled us all.)

    Coming up on 3 months on the 10th, I think. Junie, why you gotta be so skittish, the iphone isn’t gonna eat you. Oh, I know. Mealworms. Jussec.
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    Hey guys, is this barring? (Sapphire Gem mighta fooled us all.)

    Junie here is supposed to be a Sapphire Gem pullet. Both descriptions are now in question. S/he had no head spot as a chick, but was also one of the darkest chicks in the bin so it might just not have been very visible. Further, the hatchery had multiple mix-ups shipping grey chicks this year...
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