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  1. AusHen

    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    My first lot are out and fluffy
  2. AusHen

    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    24 and 24. Pure Pekin bantams (aka Bantam Cochins) plus my Pekin over Polish, Japanese bantam and Australian Araucana. Oh I also have a couple of Pekin/ISA brown due around the same time under a broody hen
  3. AusHen

    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    I have some due on Halloween but being bantams they may hatch early, so I added more later in hopes that if they hatch early they will fall on the day
  4. AusHen

    Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

    usually when I get swooped it's because one of the breeding birds is new (previous mate died) or a new pair has taken over the territory, which means having to build trust all over again which for some can take a few seasons.
  5. AusHen

    Wheaten Marans chicks with head stripes

    it turned out there are not genetically pure wheatens. the marked chicks ended up being a buff pullet and wheaten cockerel. the clean chicks a wheaten cockerel and a buff cockerel
  6. AusHen

    Wheaten Marans chicks with head stripes

    I purchased a dozen wheaten Marans eggs and had 4 hatch. Two are solid yellow as expected but two have a stripe on their head. The Marans club of Australia where I’m located says “the down of wheaten is essentially clear cream in colour, although small dorsal head spots are common” but these...
  7. AusHen

    Who was your best mama this year?

    Platinum my splash copper Marans. She went broody for the first time at 4 1/2 years old, hatched out 11 chicks and accepted another 3 at the same time then another a week later
  8. AusHen

    Are Satins Really Silkies?

    It's very doubtful any organization will ever accept Satins as a variety of Silkies, given they lack the key feature that makes a Silkie, well a Silkie. They are likely to be stuck in the Silkie project limbo for the foreseeable future.
  9. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I got three, one was a softer shell. I was getting up to 12 a day then the kids offered to help chicken duties while I tended to the gardens more, suddenly I was getting 1-2 eggs. I was thinking they had a secret nest but it turns out they were feeding chick starter instead of my breeder/layer...
  10. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I have a couple of hens who also used those excuses over the past 6 months
  11. AusHen

    Maybe I'm mistaken.

    Ermine is heterozygous dominant white with some other modifiers that distribute the black more evenly, no mottle
  12. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I got an even dozen today
  13. AusHen

    Do all Welsummer hens lay that iconic dark chocolate brown egg or is it just some?

    If they have resumed after a break from molting this is generally when their eggs are the darkest during the season. Unfortunately as mentioned some hatcheries and even breeders don't focus on eggs. I wanted some new blood so ordered from a fellow breeder of good looking birds. The eggs in the...
  14. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    14 today. Two are pullets first eggs
  15. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    10 today, then the 2yo proceeded to “help” and broke 3
  16. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    9 eggs today.
  17. AusHen

    Colour & Breeding Question

    OMG your hen is STUNNING!! The rooster looks paint to me. The parents from what's written shouldn't produce splash, but there is always the possibility a white is masking blue/splash or what they call "grey" is blue and not silver partridge. Either way breeding to your hens will reveal the...
  18. AusHen

    1 egg, double egg shell

    That’s amazing. It took me over a decade to get a double yolker but an egg within a egg is like winning a lotto
  19. AusHen

    1 egg, double egg shell

    That one definitely looks like either a double yolker or egg in egg
  20. AusHen

    1 egg, double egg shell

    looks like the blue egg broke and the brown egg slipped in the empty shell. I have had broodies roll eggs into the shells of hatched eggs before
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