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Those hens that are similar to mine, I think she said started with a black roo over a buff hen and out popped lacing, well incomplete lacing anyways. So I'm sure this girl is out of one of her laced project birds, but why I'm so curious about the color is it looks brown.. even the real...
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She has one that looks just like yours in one of her pictures. Does she (the seller) know what this is?
I haven't asked her. lol. I posted some pics of my birds in another thread and someone mentioned she looked dun based. Which led me to post the question on a whim last night. I'll...
She is pure Orpington and she does have a single comb. I'll check her feet this evening but I'm 99% sure they are blue on the bottom. I hatched her from eggs I bought on here. Here's the link with pictures and details of what birds were in the pen...
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Actually, it's fairly easy. If you crack the egg open, and the innards are intact but there's no bull's eye, it's infertile and therefore the breeder. If you crack a dud open and the innards are scrambled, it's the PO. If you can see detached/ruptured air cells when you candle, it's the...
I think some of the time, maybe a lot more than we realize, breeders out there are shipping eggs that are inferior to start with and blame it on the post office. After all, how can you prove it wasn't the post office.
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ouch! I dont use it nor have ever gotten them in foam shippers:( I do know a few folks on here swear buy them though--chooks chick? I think she even sells them? I hear great things about her shipped foam eggs..???
Chookschick has been the only person I've received eggs in foam...
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Grant starts off page 110 by saying..........."In my opinion, the Chocolate gene and what is currently known about it is fairly limited. While Dr. Carefoot discovered the gene, and that it operated as a Sex-Linked Recessive as far back as 1994, very little research has thus far been...