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  1. NatJ

    Orpington Lacing Question

    Amer beat me to it. I don't have anything to add.
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    Is there such thing as TOO MUCH protein for chickens??

    If you give vitamins or electrolytes in the water, make sure you provide plain water too. Overdoses of vitamins or electrolytes can cause problems, and providing plain water gives the chickens a chance to avoid that. Of course Corid is a different case. You do not want them to have a choice...
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    Yes. Any rose comb breed can have some birds carrying the gene for single comb but without showing it because single comb is recessive. If two birds that carry single comb are mated together, they will produce some chicks with single combs. That makes it very difficult for anyone, hatchery or...
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    new chicken breed

    Another thought: You could work on the project in stages. For example, get the body build and feathering right, however many breeds that takes, while completely ignoring feather color. Then interbreed with Barnevelders and work on the coloring. Or if the coloring is the thing most important to...
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    new chicken breed

    My inclination would be to figure out the first cross, and what traits you expect to see in the chicks. Decide what to select. Decide whether to cross them to each other (try to get some that will breed true for certain traits), or whether to breed to something else. Figure out what that next...
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    new chicken breed

    The most obvious thing I can see: your Gen 1 WebsterVelder will not breed true. It will have lots of heterozygous genes, so the offspring will be quite variable for several generations after that. A question: From each cross, can you tell what criteria you will use to select the chicks? For...
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    Introducing 9wk olds to single hen

    GIven that you have 4 chicks and only one adult hen, you might try turning the chicks loose in the run and putting the hen in the crate. You could do this every day, or just sometimes. I would especially do it the last day or two before you put them all together. It would also be useful to have...
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    Nepali winter coming up, ramshackle little garden coop needs a real big makeover and non-electric heating

    I would not provide heat at those temperatures. 0°celcius is the point where water freezes (equal to 32° fahrenheit.) Chickens usually do well at temperatures quite a bit colder than that, without any added heat, provided they have shelter from wind and rain. Just check in the morning to be...
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    Help my rooster is trying to mate with my ducks

    This site does not let you upload videos, so you need to upload the video to some other site (example: youtube), then you put a link here.
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    Why arent my goose eggs fertile?

    Just to check the obvious: are you postive you have a male and a female? I have seen hens (chickens) appear to mate with other hens, and I have read that this can happen with other kinds of birds too. If he's been vent sexed and you have personally seen that he has the correct organ, then...
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    Stray Rooster

    The important thing is that they can get the calcium when they do need it, and it sounds like you've got that covered!
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    6month old rooster survived a bobcat attack but won’t eat or drink

    Thank you for updating, so we are not left wondering :) But I'm sorry to hear that he was not able to recover :(
  13. NatJ

    Bielefelder mix chicks- auto sexing?

    If the hen has the barring gene and the rooster does not, then the color-sexing should work, no matter whether the hen was a purebred or a mix. She just needs to have the barring gene, which the one in your photos does. If you want a more involved explanation of how it works: Male chickens have...
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    Skipped molts - trying to figure out why

    I don't really know, so I started poking around online... I looked at the wikipedia article on forced molting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_molting Then I checked some of the sources that were referenced in the wikipedia article. There was a link to an online version of the book...
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    Skipped molts - trying to figure out why

    That is a good question, and I do not know the answer for sure. But what you described (not eating, weight loss) sounds like a recipe for forced molting (usually caused by the person withholding food, not the hen's choice.) So I could easily believe the molting is the effect, and the rest of...
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    Progeny from heroic rooster

    I have a slight preference for everything being in this one thread, rather than skipping some things or splitting among two or more threads. One thing that affects my preference: this thread is in the section "Pictures and Stories of My Flock." It is still a story of your flock, with a...
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    Are They Eating Too Much Calcium?

    Chickens usually like wet mash, too. It's just their normal feed with water added, but they act like it tastes really great! Nutritionally it's the same as when they eat the same feed dry, so it is a good choice when you want the fun of giving the chickens a treat, but don't want to worry about...
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    First time flock owner, thinking about hatching out some in the spring. What will i be looking at with these breeds i have?

    You could hatch eggs from your Easter Eggers. Some of their daughters will lay green eggs. You might even get green eggs from all of their daughters, depending on how many blue egg genes each Easter Egger hen has. In later generations, if you hatch green eggs from the daughters of your original...
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    Artificial Lights v/s None During Winter for Egg Production Poll

    And of course all of those are dark for 16+ hours in the middle of winter, which is why you are adding some light. When you add light, how many total hours do your chickens end up with each day?
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    Free range vs feed

    There are some places where chickens can provide all their needs by free ranging, and many more areas where they cannot. The climate matters, along with the amount of space available, how many chickens are trying to live there, and what other things are living there (plants, animals, bugs, etc.)...
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