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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Here is a picture of Cocoa the one I assume is the mother This is Cosmo another possibility I couldn’t get a picture of Storm today because she is under the coop hanging out in the shade. I’ll have to keep better records when I get around to breeding to a standard with the new White Bresse...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I’m not totally sure because I have a couple OE hens that look similar and lay very similar eggs but I suspect it her mom is Cocoa. Storm would be my next guess but Storm has beard feathers and a lot less copper in her heckles. Mocha just looks more like Cocoa to me
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    This is Mocha, she is an OE back cross to BCM. She was hatched on March 12 so she is 18 weeks and 2 days old. She was the only female from that hatch. Today she was starting to show some nesting behavior so hopefully I’ll get to see what color eggs she lays sometime in the next week or two.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I just finished the first candling of the eggs. I removed 7 total eggs 4 clears and one blood ring from my flock. I also removed one clear and one blood ring from the Bresse eggs. 32 eggs look viable 10 white Bresse and 22 BYM.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The chickens are all doing well except for some missing feathers that I’m pretty sure is just normal rooster damage. I still have 3 extra cockerels that are in a tractor with electric net fencing grazing. My hatching eggs have been going for 7 days temperature seems stable and humidity has been...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I removed 2 eggs from the incubator because the automatic egg turner had two broken egg cups and when they tipped to the side the eggs fell out. The eggs were just a couple from my flock. They didn’t break so no mess to clean up. I just felt the best solution was removing the eggs and not...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    She sat on golf balls in March but didn’t always return to the same box. Then she happily accepted and raised chicks after sitting for 3 weeks
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I have a broody here as well. Smoky has decided she wants more chicks but she hasn’t settled down into just one nesting box so I don’t trust that she will sit on the eggs I want her to hatch.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Thank you
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The incubator is loaded. 12 White Bresse from a local guy I found on Craigslist. The rest are from my flock. I’m hoping to get start a Bresse line to keep separate from my egg layers. If this hatch goes well I’ll have to thin down on some of my older birds this fall.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    All seven of the little ones have chosen to sleep in the big coop the past two nights rather than the grow out pin that they have known to be home since they left the brooder. So I guess that means they consider themselves part of the flock. They are still sleeping in a pile on the floor not up...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Yesterday I opened the door between the two runs so the youngest batch of chicks can integrate into the main flock. It went really well just the normal amount of light chasing and pecking but nothing I felt I needed to break up. This little girl is looking really good to me ver similar to her...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The first round of chicks are now 12 weeks old. 5 cockerels and one pullet. The boys are getting pretty ornery so I constructed a chicken tractor for them so they can be housed away from the girls and maybe get along a little better. I have only move 2 so far I’ll get the remaining 3 off the...
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    BYC Member Interview - Tstraub

    Thanks you
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    Wrath's Marans

    I know this wasn’t directed at me but I’ll share my experience. My F1 OEs all had obvious Marans faults from hatch. It might be blue feathers, green or yellow legs, pea comb, or beards but there was always something of if I looked for it. Some of my back crosses this year are starting to look a...
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    Hatch A Long - Mythology (Redo) BBS (Black/Blue/Splash)

    I’ll take Apollo 11 again. Hopefully it will be a successful mission this go around.
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    Rooster chicks

    I don’t currently have any for sale and I’m almost 300 miles from Boonville
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    BCM/OE - Hatch A Long - Mythological

    Sorry to hear that none made it. We’ve all been there. I hope you get better results on the next batch.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    He showed up last night with a new user name after a very long time away. He now goes by @Joemarans
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Yep, ducks do the same thing. When I’m running my boat up the river I often get ducks attempting to get me to chase them. They fly real low to the water splashing around like they can’t take off.
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