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    Not sure what’s going on!? weird things happening!!

    i have recently been hit by a variety of different things. I’ll try to keep it short as I need help but it will be hard. I’ve tried to avoid making a thread on thus but I’m starting to loose it! Is it possible for my hens to be depressed and stressed out that they lost their rooster? They all...
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    PLEASE HELP SOON! BIG TROUBLE

    The person who had their electricity go out and used the car for heat ended up hatching their eggs out okay. yeah and their eggs hatched. I looked up what to do Incase that happened to me when I was incubating. Or take them to someone you know house that still has electricity with the car heat...
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    PLEASE HELP SOON! BIG TROUBLE

    I wouldn’t worry too much if you get the heat back up they will be fine. I have hatched a lot of batches and had my temp go down to even 80 esp at lockdown time when you need to raise humidity. It won’t kill them as long as it doesn’t stay that way very long
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    PLEASE HELP SOON! BIG TROUBLE

    I read a while back same thing happened to someone else go in your car and turn up heat as high as you can
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    LICE on my Broody and others

    It should be food grade correct? I’m asking because I had chicks with lice and two of them died before I even figured out they had it one is surviving and I had put two week old chicks in an area where I had recently had my older chicks with the lice but was like DUH and took them back out right...
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    Thank you both for your last two replies that really helps a ton even my hubby joined me in trying to find out markings in these Wheaton’s at an early age. All I found was a bunch of ppl saying their chick was ameruacana but it was actually EE so nothing helped until you two replied! I feel like...
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    I got what was left over from his batch from the week before instead of newborn chicks like He said and after I had drove that far , and I’m a big push over, I didn’t say anything and took the chicks he had mixed in with some black amerucanas. I don’t think I saw any other chicks. My husband was...
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    Hello thanks for your reply and help!! I met him from Craigslist and he said in his ad “Holcombe, Smith, and Blehm bloodline quality blue egg laying Ameraucanas not easter eggers like some people advertise on here for sale. The Wheaten chics are $5 each. All chics are straight run. These are...
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    Well all the way and I went to buy chicks from the tractor supply and him and he lead me to believe he just had a batch hatch when I spoke with him this morning. The store had none and when I got to his place he ends up telling me the batch didn’t hatch yet- tomorrow- but he had left overs from...
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    Oh I had one more question. Do you know if a Wheaton amerucana is showing a little black on their wings at one week or whenever does that automatically mean they’re male?
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    Thank you for replying with that info!!! I’ve asked before that topic doesn’t get much attention. I appreciate your time on that subject!! It helps! I didn’t think it could come from both :)
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    Thanks for reading and replying. Is it good to buy from tractor supply or would it be better to buy from the backyard seller? It’s probably just me being paranoid then lol I tend to do that at times. Maybe I’ll buy a couple from each? I’ve had a lot of good experience with backyard sellers and...
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    What do they look like? What color type were they supposed to be? Wheaton? Blue Wheaton? Or something else? I just gave all four of mine away to a couple of guys with a bigger yard and farm so they will have it good there possibly. Mine had black feathers on the chest which ppl more experienced...
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    Is there a chance that a Fairy egg could hatch????

    I know this thread is old but I found a fairy egg from one of my older chickens and I know her eggs are fertile and all my girls wanted to see me crack a chickens “fairy egg” so I did and there was a yolk and a tiny red dot like it was def fertile (if that means an egg is fertile? ) I just...
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    So I did some research after u said u bought yours from tractor supply and that they were sexed and called the closest tractor supply to the guy I bought mine from. I talked to him today he said he will have new batch hatch Thursday when I called the store they said they will have new batch in...
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    Do you know whether the Mom or Dad determines which color will be laid by the offspring?
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    Hello! I checked cackle and they do have amerucanas in several different colors. however like the lavender which I’ve wanted for years. Is 14.00 for one chick!! Lol straight run!!! I’m used to paying $5 a chick or egg locally but only these Wheaton’s are available locally and I’m afraid they’re...
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    Oh one more question!! Does anyone know What makes an Easter egger? I have currently creasted cream legbar hen and rooster my rooster hatched from a blue egg and my hen lays and came from a green egg. I have a salmon faverolle who is my favorite though she is too sweet she gets pecked in...
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    Thank you btw!
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    Wheaton ameruacana chicks ALL BOYS!? :,(

    I guess I’ve gotten super lucky in the past. I’ve always bought small batches of eggs to hatch or chicks and I’ve always gotten some females out of them and usually more female than male. I hatched a batch of 9 EEs once and most were girls but only one girl was all yellow so I kept her and gave...
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