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  1. NatJ

    Can I use another colour of brahma roo to cross with a gold partridge that I could breed and sell?

    The AI has black/blue/splash genes mixed up. For the parents listed, you only get two colors of chicks, the Dark Silver Orange and the Blue Silver Orange. If you want to also have some Splash Silver Orange, you need both parents to have blue, so replace the Dark Brahma with one that has blue...
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    Chicks VS Rats VS Treadle Feeder

    You typically need to upload the video to some other site (example: youtube), and then put a link here.
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    Red sex link

    They are looking really nice as they grow up! I'm thinking recessive white, carried by both parents, is the most likely explantion for her coloring. Definitely a surprise, but a really pretty addition to the flock!
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    Is this a Marian?

    Assuming you bought her as a chick from a store (not hatched from someone's backyard flock), she certainly might be a Marans. Or she might be some mix that includes Marans and some other breed. The egg color and the foot feathers certainly suggest that. She is definitely not a Cochin. That...
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    Is this a Marian?

    Where did you buy her? Sometimes that can help with figuring out what kind a chicken is. Does she lay eggs yet? If she does, then the color of the eggs can help figure out what kind of chicken she is. Marans are supposed to lay dark brown eggs.
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    Can I use another colour of brahma roo to cross with a gold partridge that I could breed and sell?

    You got a few words in the wrong order here. The correct form would be to cross splash and black to get blue. A breeding of blue and black will give some blue chicks and some black chicks but no splash chicks.
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    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I've lost track of which kinds of birds you tried, but I have had several broodies among bantams that I got from Ideal Poultry. They were Old English Game Bantams and Cornish Bantams, I think multiple colors of each. Both of those kinds seemed pretty aware of what was happening around them, and...
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    Every body post your feed tricks PLEASE

    Have you tried the kind of waterers that have a big top part full of water, and a shallow pan at the bottom for the chickens to drink from? They can hold a lot of water without much risk of any chickens drowning. I like that much better than pots or bowls. For keeping bedding out of the water...
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    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...
  16. NatJ

    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.
  18. NatJ

    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!
  20. NatJ

    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 :(
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