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    How Long For Fowlpox To Run Through The Coops?

    Deep litter. Pretty sure it was going unnoticed til this week when the roos got it and their faces turned black. Thought it was weird when some hens had a bit of frostbite on their combs this summer. And a couple were super vocal and moody. Only had chickens for almost two years.
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    How Long For Fowlpox To Run Through The Coops?

    Sorry if I sound cold, but I have an in-law that's been paying thousands in vet bills for cortisone shots and paying hundreds for vet recommended dog food to finally put down a 25 year-old dog that's been in misery for years. The in-law has been asking to put the dog down and the vet assured her...
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    Is this fowl pox?

    I've got two big roos in my yard that look like they got into (and won) a fight with raccoons. Black splotches all over their combs and waddles and I'm thankful none of the chickens are running around blind with swollen lids. Your chicken looks dandy. :)
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    Broody Mom Took My Incubated Chicks - Hooray!

    Listened to the people here and let Broody 2 sit on eggs a couple feet up. Came home today and heard a noisy chick in the coup. Thought it was strange because broody1 was in the yard with her herd of chicks. I looked in the coop and saw a little midget chick running around with broody 2 (who...
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    How Long For Fowlpox To Run Through The Coops?

    I have two coops. We have approximately 40-50 hens and we're getting 18-20 eggs a day for the entire summer. I had a couple of moody hens that were vocal and stopped laying. I assumed they were just broody and moody. This week I noticed two of my large roos with black spots all over their combs...
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    Broody Mom Took My Incubated Chicks - Hooray!

    I counted again. There were 21 chicks and she's still raising all of them. She walks the yard with them all day. We have to help her bring all of them in at night and when we bring the bucket of chicks to the entrance she aggressively pecks them on the head before they gather in their nighttime...
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    Buff Orpington laying pinkish eggs?

    They lay light brown. If they have a heavier bloom (which fluctuates through the year based on what they eat, hormones, temperature, everything..) that light brown can definitely look pink, pale pink, rarely-but-sometimes nearly white. All normal.
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    When Do Americana (or whatever TSC calls not-Ameraucanas that look like enough them) Chickens Start Laying Eggs?

    They started at W24! At least three lay blue. Maybe more, but I've gotten three in one day, so at least three. :)
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    This is the variety I want. :)
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    If you want to dive further down the rabbit hole... On the bottom is the original hen's egg. Above that is her x BO (the only roo's available for fertilization at the time) the third is her x this: Who I still think is a BFCM x BO mix. And the top one is the true blue egg for the hatched...
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    Further, BO chickens lay light brown eggs. Most look pink right now. Most of the eggs from the coop look like you could paint a room in those hues and it would work. My new blue layers stand RIGHT out in the basket. It's almost obnoxious. :lau
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    And your photo looks closer to the color of the egg in question. Not the two hens that just started laying true blue eggs. A neighbor gifted me eggs that she said were Ameraucana, but it was a lot of ten eggs and they weren't all blue. I did NOT correct her (she charged me NOTHING for them when...
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    Look at the posts. I threw a few up. And my original posts asked people not to ask because of so many factors. :cool:
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    Okay. I have some hens that came from blue eggs in January from a neighbor. They JUST started laying yesterday. I don't question the color of their eggs. This is a side-by-side photo. If a new chicken keeper thought the other might be blue, you wouldn't think they were crazy. It's close. The...
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    Eggs changing color?

    I think I read somewhere on this forum that the shades from the bloom can change a bit depending on dietary factors (if they free range their diet is a lot different in colder months based on what's available to forage and depending more on feed than grasses and insects).
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    If I'm having problems telling green eggs from blue I certainly wouldn't trust myself to look at the inside of the shell and give you an accurate color. 🙃
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    One of my brown layers has a slight ombre to her egg color. Often with dark speckles on the browner, pointier end. 🙃
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    Beautiful!
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    This makes me feel a bit more sane. The one of her daughters that lays that barely green color is her crossed with a BO. And most of them lay eggs that are nearly pink for most of the year. I haven't tried washing the daughter's eggs to see if the bloom is what gives them the greenish tint...
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    I'm Not Colorblind, But..

    By NO means am I claiming ANY of my birds are Ameraucana, but this is the quickest image I could find that demonstrates the color without whipping out my crap-awful Samsung phone camera. Egg Colors My girl lays eggs this teal color and her daughter is laying eggs the color of the one at the...
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