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  1. JohnsonHomestead

    breeding for a rhodebar chicken

    I was wondering how your RhodeBar breeding is going? Would you have any photos online? Our F1 groups laid their first eggs yesterday,hoping for good fertility rate to start hatching our first F2s.
  2. JohnsonHomestead

    What breeding(s) are used to create commercial "cornish x rocks"?

    I don't know if I stumbled on anything or not, but I had some white hens I bought as "heavies", they were from ideal poultry, no name just stock numbered, had black spots. Anyway, I hatched some of the eggs that were fertilized by a "Production Red", and they all grew very fast, if they had been...
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    Uncle Sam Expects You To Keep Hens and Raise Chickens !!

    I do a lot of photo work,restoration, that sort of stuff, and I would say for use as a poster, any Kinko type copy place now days should be able to make an eye appealing print up to say 20x30 impo :-)
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    Little Black Chicks

    History of our straight run "heavies" mystery grabbag. At this point the votes were Australorpe Roo and mixed barred rocks. My best guess on age is about 17 days in these two photos. Then we get to about 3wks, Seeing red suddenly one morning. Now looking more like Black sexlink roo and...
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    My Ever Changing Homestead Farm My wife and I have our little farm on land that my family have had since the late 60s. We have some peach trees that sprouted from seed my mom pitched out, we have a white and yellow, even some that are almost red though it never really ripened, I am happy to say...
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    Chick sexing project

    If I didn't know better I would have said I read this post before I planned my "Production Red Sexing Project",lol. A couple of days ago I had posted a question in this very group about "tail feather sexing" my production reds, I have a group I hatch from my flock, and will be doing alot more...
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    Sexing by tail feathers?

    I did a search and found that the saddle feathers are back by the tail on the back of a rooster, on a hen the feathers in that area are called cushion. Like alot of things with chickens, its all a learning experiance :-) I will be doing my trial and error sexing this comming year. First trial...
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    Sexing by tail feathers?

    ok, I may be getting confused(not hard to do) I know roosters get long pointed feathers around the neck as they get older, always known those by hackle feathers. So would saddle feathers just be another name for the neck feathers? With the pro reds I have, the roos combs and wattles are getting...
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    Sexing by tail feathers?

    Saddle feathers? You stepped in what? lol. Have idea where to look for them(on back between wings, maybe), but what would I be looking for?
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    Sexing by tail feathers?

    Egghead jr, this group I hatched myself from my eggs. I tried the wing sexing at actually came out the same as tail feathering,lol. All of them are long thick leg birds for most part, I will be hatching several more from same stock after first of the year, I am figuring by the end of summer I...
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    Sexing by tail feathers?

    I have had more that a couple people tell me that you can sex any chicken at a few weeks old by tail feather development. Hens are suppose to get tail feathers first and roos start later on. I have some production red chicks about a month old now and obvious difference in tail feathers. I am...
  12. JohnsonHomestead

    Wing was Green, some advice please

    one of those I have missed over the years, never seen it before. I won't eat green eggs and ham, so spinach green chicken was a concern,lol. so will just be short the one wing this time, just glad it wasn't a chest bruise, because would have trashed that bird. at least now I will know it happens.
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    Wing was Green, some advice please

    Quote: Ok, didn't know that, I didn't cut the bad looking area open, didn't want to run chance of spreading it around.
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    Wing was Green, some advice please

    I just took 3 young roosters off feed bill to put on our menu, my concerns are about one of these birds had a wing tip that after getting all the feathers off you could tell it had been broken and going to say from the color that it was gangrenous, if this had been an ivy it would have looked...
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    Ok really! WHO IS SICK OF IT?! ~UPDATED!~

    Quote: That's because they see a supply of free eggs coming their way. Tell them they'll be $2.50/doz and they'll quit asking. I know this for a FACT. I swear I'd rather break the eggs against a tree in the woods than to give them to folks who bugged me for months before my girls matured...
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    Ok really! WHO IS SICK OF IT?! ~UPDATED!~

    my girls and demand hardly ever match up the way I would like. One thing that I have run into enough building up my layers. If they are going to be about 5-6 months old around Aug. or Sept. it means I won't be seeing eggs from them until Mar. or Apr. of the next year unless I have a light set to...
  17. JohnsonHomestead

    Looking for opinions on white hens

    Quote: No, any color besides stark white is red clay/dirt from her love of dirtbaths. all 3 are pure white birds,lol. I will try to get a photo when one has buried herself.
  18. JohnsonHomestead

    Looking for opinions on white hens

    Quote: would you say pure white or off white, how much would you say she weighs? because she does look alot like mine did when they were younger, mine are going on 4 years, with their love of dirt bathing and the red clay dirt we have around here they can look more like a BIG production reds...
  19. JohnsonHomestead

    Looking for opinions on white hens

    Quote: Ideal 236 (agreed). Maybe, but their weight is still a good deal over what they are saying the 236 would be, but I guess I could just feed my girls better, lol who knows, lol from Ideals page Quote:
  20. JohnsonHomestead

    Looking for opinions on white hens

    I was trying to see if anyone knew if the black spots showing up on white chicks was a genetic marker for other breeds other than leghorn. From the size of the hens I wondered if they might be a cornish cross, has anyone had cornishX hens get to egg production if so what egg colors have you seen...
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