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    4th of July Hatch-Along!

    Hi everyone! Let’s celebrate Independence Day with a hatch along! These eggs have been put in the incubators in staggered intervals, so they are set to hatch from July 2nd-July 8th. I was so blessed to win the BYC cutest chick photography contest a few weeks ago, and my prize was an incredible...
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    Can dominant white chickens have patchy skin?

    This may be an obvious answer, but can a chicken with 2 copies of dominant white have patchy skin? Or does the patchy skin mean that they are actually only carrying one copy of dominant white and they will likely have “paint” coloring as an adult? Picture of a chick that has me questioning, look...
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    Recessive white with a black feather?

    I wish there was a category for color, I never know where to put my color genetics questions! Hope this works! I have a recessive white chicken who has developed one black feather on her head. Is this normal/possible in recessive whites? Both of her parents carry recessive white. I just hadn’t...
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    Wheaton or Isabel?

    I hatched an ameraucana chick that is from a pen that could have Isabel or Wheaton. Can you tell the difference between the two at hatch? I am guessing the chick is Wheaton because it looks darker yellow than I would imagine that an Isabella would be. I also hatched two NN, parentage unknown...
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    Paint with autosomal red

    Hello all, I believe I have some paint bantams with autosomal red coming through. I believe that this came down from a lavender bantam ameraucana boy, possibly. I am wondering if anyone knows how difficult it will be to breed away from or if I need to scrap all of the birds showing this trait. I...
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    Giving chicks to a bunch of broodies?

    Hello! I have been incubating eggs for 2 weeks and I have a broody girl who has been sitting for about 3 weeks. I had planned to give her some of the babies to raise. In fact I had her sitting on some fertilized eggs… but this past week, FOUR additional hens went broody. I only have 3 nest...
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    EE/OE, Polish and Duck hatch along!

    ...Cherry Kiwi Cornflake Honeycomb Marmalade Sushi So choose a name from the list and assign it to the number of chick that you want to root for!! *I will edit the list on this post until I am no longer able to (I think it will let me for 24 hours) After that I will just post the updates...
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    Help me to pair birds for breeding!

    ...isnt very relevant anymore, however I do plan on hatching eggs from some of these girls when their eggs are fertilized by the lavender boys. ******* Okay who would like to play a pairing game?? This is totally for fun! I have a good idea of who I would like to pair, but would love to hear...
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    How to stabilize humidity in Brinsea Ovation

    Does anyone have a tabletop brinsea ovation - the 28 egg capacity kind? I am going crazy trying to stabilize the humidity in it. I need to maintain 35-45% humidity for emu eggs that I have in it. The water wells in the bottom I think are too large for that level. So I have been putting in small...
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    Please confirm naked neck cockerel

    Hello, here is a 10 week old NN cockerel… just wanted to confirm that he is a cockerel! He has so much red on him, so I think that’s a good inductor that he is male. The comb is such a weird shape. But fairly flat. Not much for wattles yet. He is half OE and half NN silkie. Confirmation on...
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    Don’t hate me! Are these boys?

    Short summary: please look at the pictures on this post and let me know if you see one that looks like a girl. They are going to be given away on Saturday. The next post down shows some supposed girls the same age, for comparison. —————————— Longer post that really doesn’t need to be read: I...
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    Eye color genetics

    I am wondering if there is a certain gene that controls eye color and how hard is it to breed towards having black eyes? I have mainly silkies and silkie crosses and a lot of them have lighter eyes. Is eye color something that can be corrected pretty easily in future generations or should I...
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    What is the color name of this pattern?

    I have two hens of totally different breeds. Both are black with gold or copper on the necks. The first is an olive egger that is a cross of a recessive white silkied EE and a blue cuckoo marans. So I’m sure the copper color came from the marans side (is it normal to be in the laced or penciled...
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    What color is this chicken?

    I have a little girl who has a copy of dominant white (paint) and she has a couple of black feathers that show through. But she also has a khaki colored tint to her feathers. Is that just leakage? It is like that on basically her whole body. Her mom is a NN paint silkie who has very white...
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    Project: Silkied EE

    Hello! I just want to introduce a project that I am working on. I currently am in a place where I can’t own a ton of chickens and roosters are frowned upon, but within the next year we are moving to a place where I can go chicken crazy 🤪 I adore silkies, I think they are nearly perfect as they...
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    Slothinc art

    I received some water color supplies for Christmas and decided to try and watercolor a chicken after seeing @YamYam s adorable watercolor chickens. I don’t know exactly what I’m doing, nor do I profess to be an artist. Rather I am just doing this for the fun of it! Here’s my first attempt at...
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    2024 Christmas Hatch Chicks

    I hatched a bunch of chicks over Christmas and New Years. They were both from my own flock, and from shipped eggs. After selling some, I am left with 20 chicks. This thread will follow them! In their hatch along thread I had assigned names to them. But a sold a lot of the chicks with my favorite...
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    Naked neck with insane cheeks

    I just had to share this picture of a NN chick with the fluffiest cheeks I’ve ever seen. He almost looks bearded because of how much fluff he has surrounding his face but it is all cheeks 🤣 it reminds me of the old timey huge mustaches. I won’t be keeping him because he’s recessive white but I...
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    Are these chicks blue?

    I hatched the cutest little silkie crosses that were from shipped eggs. I have never had light blue or splash birds before so I was just wondering if these are blue? I don’t think splash is possible as the roo was a lavender bird (so he shouldn’t be carrying blue). I put a lavender silkie in the...
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    White silkie with pink skin

    I have a couple of white chicks that just hatched and they have pink skin. I am wondering if recessive white gives pink skin in silkies? Both parents have dark skin. One chick is a NN and one is a mix. I know the mom of the mixed baby carries recessive white. Can recessive white cause the skin...
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