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  1. Sazbaby

    crossed beak. . . .

    I'm glad to happen across your post, as I have had a recent similar experience- I am incubating and hatching my own eggs from heritage breeds, mostly a barnyard mix at the moment. I have a group of chicks in my brooder currently who hatched out 3/18-3/19 and just yesterday I noticed one with a...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    I don't believe Rudy Troxel is doing Red Dorkings any more- I was in touch with him last year and within a month of when I contacted him, he had sold most of his flock to someone else and was in the process of selling the remainder... As I recall, he said he was looking to concentrate more on...
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    Hawks :(

    ...have a good response and good advice on measures to take. For now I'm going to move them closer to the house and I'm ordering some of the flash tape to hang around the field... fingers crossed. Hard to let them out when I *know* the little hawk will be back for another meal before too...
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    Hawks :(

    ...ago when we nearly got cleaned out by a raccoon since we weren't electrifying our poultry netting. Now we have 3 "pens" for our flocks, we use *electrified* poultry netting around each one, and each one has at least 2 or 3 different places we make up for shelter. We have now lost 3 Delaware...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Yep, he was one of the first chicks I got from you, I believe it was late Feb around the 26th. I picked them up in mid-March and he hadn't yet gotten coloring in on his breast feathers. I have several pictures of him along the way, would be interesting to see how he's developed over time, if I...
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    Lockdown timing and containers for eggs at lockdown... questions!!!

    ...10pm the following night, when it then becomes day 2.... and so forth until day 21. With the variability in hatching, I expect hatching any time *on* day 21 or within 24-36 hours of the completion of day 21. Does that make sense?? Of course they might start sooner than that too, but I...
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    Lockdown timing and containers for eggs at lockdown... questions!!!

    First off, an easier question: Friday evening, late, will be the official start of day 18 for my eggs. However, I am leaving Thursday afternoon to be out of town... my husband will be here to keep an eye on things, but I would rather not worry him with actually "locking down" the eggs for me...
  8. Sazbaby

    Is this Mereck's? (Video)

    Well, he stayed exactly the same for almost a week, and we decided to cull him... none of my other birds have shown any signs so far. We just didn't want him sitting there suffering, as well as being an ongoing source of potential infection for other birds, so we let him go... fingers crossed...
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    Any advice for a broody not accepting grafted chicks?

    We've grafted chicks onto broodies many times and never had any trouble. I have a silkie hen who has raised several clutches for us, probably half her own and half grafted, she has been a very protective mother for all of them. She went broody around June 20 and the chicks I was planning on...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Yep, thanks Karen for replying about the chicks! ;) These are form eggs I got from Karen (KI4GOT) and I'll have to take another look at them to see what I've got, the flock was still mixed colors at the time I got the eggs, but I know I have at least the one red pullet in there (the other...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Here are the pictures shortly after hatch, and I inserted comments on who turned out to be who above each picture: Quote: Some are fairly obvious but others not so much! You could look at some of these and see if your flecks/no flecks rule would be applicable, but of course it's a different...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    That one had a somewhat narrow stripe on the head, mostly reddish brown (as opposed to darker markings you'd typically see on females) with only the point of the marking having a dark spot. There were others in the clutch with similar markings, only having darkness at the tip of the head stripe...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Interesting... I'll have to keep this in mind and test it out... so far my numbers of chicks are small, but I've had 2 surprises (1 I thought was male turned out to be female, and 1 I swore was female turned out to be male) based on the head markings. Can you post pictures comparing the two...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Yes, you can sex them a hatch, but it's not quite 100%... you can google "sexing day old dorkings" and there will be some comparative pictures. Feathersite also has a couple pictures to show it. Basically the females will have a much darker, sharply defined dark stripe on top of their heads...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Hmmmmm to my inexperienced eye, I think it looks like at least 2 or 3 females and at least 1 definite male, the one with his back to us... a few are hard to tell for sure from this angle, and I've certainly been wrong myself... ;) Hard to be patient till those breast feathers come in, eh??? ;)
  16. Sazbaby

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Quote: ..... nice..... ;)
  17. Sazbaby

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    wow, that looks like it will be a nice setup!
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    We had planned to do curtains for years and never got around to *doing* it... I'm thinking I might still give them a try in combination with the closable nesting boxes we have now...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    ...have the wooden perches on them, the perches can be flipped up to block the nests at night, which works perfectly as long as you close them off *after* eggs are all done being laid, and *before* anyone wants to go to bed! Involves a 3rd trip to the coop to do so, which isn't too bad most...
  20. Sazbaby

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Bummer!!!! So frustrating... fingers crossed for the sfh egg to hatch... thinking pullet thoughts... ;) Our 7 dorking chicks are down to 6, the smallest one didnt' show up at dusk last night and no sign of her today... she was one of only two females out of the 7, so poo. :( Mama hen quit...
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