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    Tell Me Anything You Know About Brown Chinese Geese

    Did it give a date? I'm wondering if they bought eggs a year or more ago, and now have eggs and goslings to sell from those original ones.
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    Not that I've heard of. But if it does exist, I would also like to know!
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    Hens Or Roosters PLEASE HELP!

    At some point in the past, a mutation happened (a change in one gene.) That caused a chicken to have extra toes. Since that point, the gene for extra toes has been inherited like any other gene. Domestic chickens are different than their wild junglefowl ancestors. Every difference is the...
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    Skipped molts - trying to figure out why

    Could it be done with just reduced light, and no change in the feed? Plenty of hens do molt in the fall and winter when the days are shorter, even when their owners continue to provide free-choice feed. It might require a blacked-out coop for them to live in, to get enough hours of darkness...
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    Is anyone able to get my email address from here?

    I get email updates for new posts in some threads that I'm watching. I think I've gotten a few emails over the years for things like "Buy the BYC calendar." Neither of those is a problem for me, given which options I chose in the "preferences" part my account here. But it sounds like you got...
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    Genetic questions!

    Yes and no. A case where you get something that seems entirely new: Rooster, Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire (red with a black tail) Hen, Barred Rock (black with white barring) Chicks: Black Sexlinks, where sons are black with white barring and daughters are black with no white barring. So...
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    Genetic questions!

    If the mating was from parents that each show the dominant gene and carry the recessive gene, then 25% of chicks are expected to show the recessive trait and 75% are expected to show the dominant trait. When I said "you expect" I was being careless with my choice of words, and did not really...
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    Genetic questions!

    Yes, Rr x Rr = 25% rr But it also gives 25% RR and 50% Rr, which means 75% show R. I don't think R is the actual abbreviation for any of the genes involved, but the inheritance pattern is the same regardless. If both parents carry the recessive gene, you expect it to show up in about 25% of...
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    New to chickens - age differences in brooding.

    In general, the sooner you combine them, the less trouble you will have. That's because of the age of the older ones: as they get older, problems become more likely. But you have to balance that with the ablities of the young ones: they need to be able to run around quickly, and move if a...
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    New to chickens - age differences in brooding.

    I would keep them separated for at least two days. That lets the new ones eat & drink, sleep, and generally recover from their journey. At that point, if the new ones are running around and generally seem healthy and active, I would probably try combining them. There's a good chance it will...
  11. NatJ

    2 cockerels 1 pullet and 6 chicks

    Based on the photos: yes, those two Legbars are males. No, they don't have the salmon colored breast that people talk about in Legbar hens. In general, male Cream Legbars have a lot more white than the females, along with less brown and maybe a bit more black...
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    Giant Silkie Project.

    I'll be curious to see how it looks as it gets older yet. I see why you think it's a cockerel, but I also see why it "should" be a pullet, so I don't know what it really is :confused: I suppose you can't go by comb color, because that will just be black.
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    I swear they are all roosters !?

    Glad it finally worked! I see why you think they might all be males! I think I see one pullet (last photo, light brown bird with a head just visible in the back, peeking out from behind two others.) Other than that, I see some definite males (like the light colored one in the front of that...
  14. NatJ

    Things you wish you could say

    They sort of acknowledge that: "One concern for the shelter, Parana explained, was the increasing demand for space and feed over time, as Freedom Rangers take about ten weeks to reach maturity." [Source...
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    Things you wish you could say

    Of course it would be more efficient to just euthanize them now, instead of buying a bunch of food and hiring extra staff to care for them. Or they could take the really cost-efficient way out and sell them to the people that want to buy them (the article said there were such people.) But they...
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    Incubating 1 egg

    Get a thermometer and measure the temperature. A 250 watt bulb that is very close to the egg is probably too much. The same 250 watt bulb at a greater distance might be just right. You might find that 100 watts, or 40 watts, or even less than that, might be enough at certain distances, in a...
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    Designer Breed open Discussion

    If you want mottling on black or lavender, yes mottled probably will be better than Jubilee to start with. If you want mottling on red, the Jubilee might be better. And sometimes, the "better" choice is the one you can get more easily ;)
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    Designer Breed open Discussion

    That sounds like a good starting point!
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    Designer Breed open Discussion

    Unfortunately I don't know of one single source that's convenient. Do you mean the one with the chicken calculator? It can be in several different languages, including English. https://kippenjungle.nl/chickencalculator.html If you want to learn chicken genetics thoroughly, this page has links...
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    I swear they are all roosters !?

    I'm still not seeing pictures anywhere in this thread. I can find some of your threads from the past, with pictures in them, so I don't know what's different this time.
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