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  1. ZurcherFarms

    What color is this rooster?

    Thanks!
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    What color is this rooster?

    It seems such a funny question to ask what color this is, but he has so much going on, I don't know how to classify him. Supposedly he's an Ice Cream Bar (isbar/ cream Legbar cross) but he is way smaller than all my other birds, and think the breeder I got the eggs from must have had an accident...
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    Black Copper Marans - Which Roosters to keep?

    That's what got me into it actually. I bought "discount Marans" from a hatchery which turned out to be cuckoo and black marans. They're maybe a 2-3 on the color scale. I was so annoyed I tried to save a few bucks, and ended up wasting an entire year by the time I found out and got more. Second...
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    Black Copper Marans - Which Roosters to keep?

    You make very good points, and I think I'll definitely apply your advice on some of my easter egger and olive egger breeding pens, but I really want to stick as close as I can to the SOP for my Marans. (I personally think two many breeders have done what they want with this breed and have hurt...
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    Whats the most beautiful chicken you have ever seen ?

    Czech Gold Brindle Hen. The only bird right now I'd fly overseas to personally import into the US. So. Beautiful! You'll find more pictures online if you look up: Česká slepice zlatá kropenatá
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    Cream Legbar Roo

    I have two in a 5x12 coop with 10 other roosters (mostly marans, Bielefelder, and Ice Cream Bar) They are about 4 months old and have never been aggressive to me or my family. Occasionally they put the other younger roosters in their place and are both in the upper third of the group for...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Has anyone here ever had a Marans that hatched with very severe looking angular head? These girls are about 3 mo old. I don't know if this is normal, of if it was a problem with the incubator... (We has one chick in the same batch hatch with a cross beak and one eye, so I think there was a...
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    Black Copper Marans - Which Roosters to keep?

    As I plan on keeping a Rooster pen with all my "back up" roosters, I can easily keep 2 or 3 Marans Roosters total. I may put my "second string" Marans in with some of my non-marans hens to make more olive eggers, as specific breed SOP wouldn't be necessary but the roosters could still earn their...
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    Black Copper Marans - Which Roosters to keep?

    Hello from Nebraska! I have 7 Black Copper Marans and 1 Splash Marans Rooster that I hatched out in December and February. I'm trying to figure out which ones I should keep for breeding purposes. All of them came from "good lines" but we all know there are plenty cull birds from show lines... I...
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    Possibility of breeding for purple/pink bloom

    I wonder if introducing a rooster from a salmon favorelle or croad langshan would help at all?
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    Possibility of breeding for purple/pink bloom

    I asked this same question in https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/pink-egg-project-interest.1220962/#post-19537983 I'm very interested in this project, but without others to help it's almost an impossible task!
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    Please Everyone- Earlobe Color Has Nothing To Do With Egg Color

    All theth if my Cream Legbars have very pale blue ears.
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    Do any egg companies sell their cockerel chicks? I need cockerels to make Capons.

    They sell all their male chicks at $.50/ea except for Broilers, which they sell for $.95/SR. They are a supplier for huge brown egg laying operations and only raise RIR, and a couple production crosses in addition to Cornish Cross. They hatch every Wednesday. You may be able to call them on a...
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    Do any egg companies sell their cockerel chicks? I need cockerels to make Capons.

    http://www.centralhatchery.com/pricelist.html You can get chicks for $.50.
  15. ZurcherFarms

    Buff Orpington crossed with a crested cream legbar

    Nope not yet, my hens won't lay until June.
  16. ZurcherFarms

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I just threw out the last of my duck eggs. :hit They had all stopped developing. I think I'm done with shipped eggs from now on. :( I still have some local eggs set that are about 2 weeks in. But I'm worried since I've lost so many already. What do you all suggest I should have the humidity and...
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    Raising broilers with livestock

    Yes, that's what I was thinking.
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    Raising broilers with livestock

    Hello! I just wanted to bounce some ideas off of you all. I know chickens LOVE cattle and pig poop, and though it seems disgusting, it's actually pretty good for them, and creates less feed waste, and helps break up the actual livestock waste as they're scratching it around. Seems like a win...
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    Hatchery vs breeder araucanas

    The ones at the store are pullets, but if I get the off chance rooster, it's ok, I could use him in my breeding projects for EEs and OEs. Most of the chicks looked like they had green legs. I grabbed 4, one kind of yellow/silver, 2 bluish brown, and a lighter one with spots. The Bielefelder...
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    Nebraskans Speak Up!!! NEBRASKA ROCKS!!

    Hello! Checking in from Dorchester, NE! (West of Crete)
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