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    Breeder Sold Me Mixed Chicks?

    I found her on some local classifieds selling her chicks and hatching eggs. Her ad was gone right after I confronted her about the mix chicks and I can't remember her name to look her up. Oh well, lesson learned. I did end up selling the chicks as olive eggers. We ended up keeping one that...
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    Red Leakage vs Birchen?

    Gotcha. That makes way more sense. I was trying to figure that out and you explained it wonderfully. Thank you!
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    Red Leakage vs Birchen?

    I'm trying to build a breeding group of silverudds blue. Red leakage is a no-no according to the American Silverudd's Blue Association's site. I'm having a hard time undersranding how you can tell if a birchen bird has red leakage. Can someone please explain the genetics and what to look for...
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    Heckin' Peckin' Hens (and Rooster)

    It's been a crazy few days! The good news: the littles hatched! They're so precious. The bad news, the "Silverudd's blue" hatching eggs I purchased from a "breeder" turned out to be mixes. 🥲 Dang. Kind of a bummer when people are less than honest. Lesson learned: ask to see the parent stock...
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    Breeder Sold Me Mixed Chicks?

    Hello all! I just hatched out 10 beautiful baby chicks. However, some were not what I expected, although they are precious nonetheless. A little background: I'm trying to put together a Silverudd's blue breeding flock so I've been working on sourcing chicks from different breeders. This is a...
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    Eggs Pipping in the Wrong Places?

    Alright, final verdict is that we ended up with 10 healthy chicks out of 12 that made it to lockdown. Two eggs never pipped and weren't moving so I did a careful shell removal over the aircell and both chicks had passed. Neither had finished absorbing their yolk and it looked like the inner...
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    Eggs Pipping in the Wrong Places?

    Three have hatched so far, including one of the wrong end pippers! Hopefully the others follow soon. I'm still waiting for 3 other eggs to pip.
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    Eggs Pipping in the Wrong Places?

    I have the weird end pippers from my own eggs and those I received from the breeder. I had a hard time keeping my humidity stable and it would frequently drop to 19%-20% overnight. I'd add a little water in the morning and it would go up to 40% before slowly dipping down over the day. I'd add...
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    Eggs Pipping in the Wrong Places?

    Thank you, that could be too. It would be unfortunate if so many were malformed as more have pipped on the wrong side than not. 8 have pipped and only 2 have pipped on the correct end. I'm still waiting for 5 others to pip, but I'm not concerned as it's only day 20. I haven't figured out where...
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    Eggs Pipping in the Wrong Places?

    I made sure to store them pointy end down before I started incubation. I have no idea how the breeder was storing them before I received them, but she also had them pointy end down in their cartons when I received them so I assume she was also storing them correctly. Next time I may just stuff...
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    Eggs Pipping in the Wrong Places?

    It is a Maticoopx 30. I had them on their sides and positioned them so that the small end was angled down as much as possible. Hard to see, but here's a picture from day 7.
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    Eggs Pipping in the Wrong Places?

    Thank you for the help and resource! The welsummer eggs are from my own flock while the Silverudd's blue eggs (green) are from a local breeder, though they did have to travel in the car for two hours, but we padded them really good and we didn't observe any detached aircells. I let them sit for...
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    Eggs Pipping in the Wrong Places?

    Hello! I was excited to hear cheeping from my incubator this morning. As I looked closer however, multiple eggs have either pipped on the small end of the egg or in the middle of the egg. This is my first time incubating eggs. They incubated on their sides with the big end up the entire term of...
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    Heckin' Peckin' Hens (and Rooster)

    Day 18, lockdown day!! Look how cozy they all look! They're at 99.5F with 68% humidity. Fingers crossed for lots of babies in a few days! And here's a little baby foot from one the eggs on day 15 since for everyone since there will be no more candling:
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    Mystery Chicks

    Same! I ended trading him for one. Here's to hoping for some gorgeous blue eggs!🤞
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    6 Week Old Chicks for Sale, UT

    Thank you!
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    Splash Color Question

    Thank you for the response! I'm wondering if I should even consider using him in my breeding program if he is recessive white. White isn't an accepted color for Silverudd's blue, but it would be fun to work with. My other splash chick is like you described, more of a grey base with black...
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    Splash Color Question

    Hello, I'm in the process of building up a Silverudd's blue flock. I was hoping to get with a blue roo out of the chicks I purchased from two different breeders. Unfortunately, so far, only two are showing up to be roosters at 6 weeks (still young so maybe one of the blue chicks will join the...
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    Air Cells too Small?

    Hello, I'm incubating my first set of eggs. It has been so cool! Last night we candled on day 15 and could see on of the little one's feet against the shell. So cute! Now onto the question. I'm struggling to figure out the humidity thing. I started with filling up the fill tray underneath the...
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    Heckin' Peckin' Hens (and Rooster)

    Alrighty, so a lot has happened since I posted last. It took me a bit of time to recover from the shock of Luna's death, but we're back! We found out a turkey hatched a whole batch of turkey chicks(?) in our front yard, somehow without us discovering her. In fact, the only reason I discovered...
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