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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    I was moving around some birds from my brooder into a grow out pen and realized I had one more female that looks like it might have wild type and barring. Does it look like she also got the mottling gene? Ignore the bald neck, she just got picked at by some of the older chicks and is still...
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    Is anyone breeding barred Ameraucana?

    Do you remember what her seller name is? Have you been happy with their egg color?
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    Feeling awful for culling my rooster

    I was more thinking so someone else could eat him :p
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    Feeling awful for culling my rooster

    I don't have much to add other than I prefer to use tree loppers so it is instant and there's no second guessing. Can I ask, if you aren't planning to eat them, why not try to rehome them first? I personally eat my unwanted birds because it feels so wasteful to kill them and not even make a meal...
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    Does this chick look promising as a female?
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    I've been hatching out all summer and had some bad luck with my new outdoor brooder and lost 2 promising chicks. I only have 1 male that appears to meet the requirements.
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    Is anyone breeding barred Ameraucana?

    My splash barred Ameraucana died so I'm revisiting this. Does anyone know of anyone breeding barred ams?
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    Help .Is this serious?

    I have seen similar to this twice with my flock. Once was as a result of a predator attack. Something tried to eat my chicken butt first, pulled off a bunch of feathers, and her bottom was weepy for a week until she started healing up. The other time was as a result of an egg-hiccup and the egg...
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    Do I need to clean their feet regularly?

    Check for bumble foot every once in a while but I wouldn't bother with the chicken pedicure :rolleyes:
  10. Floof

    Help!!!

    The trick is making sure your temp amd humidity return to the correct levels as quickly as possible. When I have to open the incubator I'll add some hot water if I'm worried about it. If none of the eggs have pipped yet, I just let the humidity stabilize on its own.
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    Hoop coop idea for overwintering my garden boxes

    I was thinking something like either of these with hardware cloth ends to keep the air flowing. If I make them domed, like a hoope coop, theres the issue of how to access the birds/food/waterers.
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    Hoop coop idea for overwintering my garden boxes

    I live in a rather temperate part of oregon. At coldest it gets down to the mid teens but our average winters get into the 20s. I think the cattle panels are overkill for putting them in the garden boxes. I have a 12x8 hoop coop on the lower part of my property but what I learned the hard way is...
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    Hoop coop idea for overwintering my garden boxes

    So I was at tractor supply and I ended up walking out with 7 ducklings for $2. I need a place to put them when they outgrow the brooder and I'm thinking of making 2 "hoop coops" to go over my unsuccessful garden boxes and over wintering them there. Our soil was poor and didn't hold water and...
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    Blue Ameraucana hen cross Delaware Roo

    I'm sorry you misunderstood. A chicken breed is a group of chickens with distinct and consistent physical characteristics, such as body shape, skin color, feather patterns, and comb type. These traits are passed down through generations when bred within the same breed. Not all chicken breeds are...
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    Is anyone breeding barred Ameraucana?

    I'm working on a project and Im not satisfied with the barred Ameraucana that I have to work with. Anyone else breeding barred Ameraucana and would consider selling/shipping eggs or chicks? Im trying to breed both double barring and double mottling into my Ameraucanas to see if I can recreate...
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    What would a black copper marans rooster over a Delaware hen look like?

    NatJ described it really well. You'd basically get black sex links.
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    Blue Ameraucana hen cross Delaware Roo

    So this is not exactly true. Prairie BlueBell are a hybrid and will not breed true; they probably have 1 gene for blue and 1 gene for white eggs so the offspring can be any combination of blue/blue, blue/white, or white/white. Whiting True Blues on the other hand are pure for blue genes and all...
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    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    The two brown ones are feathering out brown, no indication of the white feathers like on the 55 male. The one i am assuming is a splash ee is feathering out white.
  19. Floof

    Recreating the 55 flowery chicken coloration

    @nicalandia does it look like I'm on the right track? I have more hatching out this week and I'd love to know which ones are worth keeping.
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    Blue Ameraucana hen cross Delaware Roo

    The Delaware breed is a barred silver columbian colour. Blue is a dilution gene over black so you will basically get black and blue barred babies. They'll be cute but they won't be sex linked as all the offspring will carry 1 gene for barring, inherited from the rooster.
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