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    2 D'Uccle x Andalusian cockerels in Seattle

    Two of our last hatch of the year are cockerels. We live in city limits, so we need to rehome them. These guys are handled daily, so they are friendly. (The black one is a little more fidgety, though!) They turned 13 weeks old today, Friday 11/9. They are pretty small still. I imagine they'll...
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    Broody marans adopting a full-grown bantam hen?

    Hi! My chickens are doing weird things, and I can't find any answers on the web. Hopefully one of you has some insight! My fiancé and I have a BCM hen, about a year old, who was broody on Monday. We moved from northern CA to Washington state on Tuesday, and I assumed that would break her...
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    Blue x Mille Fleur throwing black copper chicks?

    Hi! I have a question for the genetics gurus here. I have two hatchery chickens: a Blue Andalusian rooster and a mille fleur Barbu d'Uccle hen. We hatched their eggs this year, and, based on the chicken calculator, we expected to get blue and black solid-colored chicks. We did get two black...
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    What colors might this be?

    I have a pretty (but messily-patterned) 14wk bantam cochin cockerel that I'm trying to use to help myself understand phenotypes in chickens. I'm totally new to chicken genetics and do not yet have a breeding flock, but I really want to try to understand chicken color (and the expression of genes...
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    Cannibalism of newly hatched chicks?

    I had 3 eggs under a broody hen set to hatch today. Checked this evening: one external pip, one peeping, and one empty shell with no chick to be found. After an exhaustive search, I fear that another hen (I let her sit in the nestbox in the coop with the other hens) probably ate it. Is this...
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    ID my flock!

    I recently acquired my neighbor's flock of hens. They have a vague idea of what some of them are, but I'm a little dubious (they've repeatedly insisted that two of the hens are "Egyptian famoas," which you may recognize as not a thing. And none of the hens look like Fayoumis, either!). Here are...
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    Silkie chick color?

    I was sold this chick as "Silkie - Assorted" at my local feed store, which is suuuper helpful. I've never kept a silkie before; any guess on what color she'll be? She is only about a week old.
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    Humboldt County, CA - Various hens

    Hi, all! I'm looking to reduce my flock. I have two Australorp hens who still lay sporadically, but are (probably) near the end of their laying days. I also have a black sexlink hen who, again, lays every now and then. And then...one black hen with a rusty neck whose breed is unknown to me...
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    Facebook was a little put off by this one, so I'm sharing it here!

    Hi there, fellow poultry lovers! I'm an artist and writer, and last night I got some seriously weird inspiration to draw. It involves a rooster, so I mean, I guess y'all have at least some chance of enjoying it. It's a rooster/maned wolf chimera. I don't really have any explanation for...
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    James Joyce the 6-wk roo--what breed?

    Howdy! Two weeks ago, I posted pictures of "Joyce" here, concerned about the fact that the feed store had bantam D'Uccles in the same bin as LF cochins. Given that the lady helping me had no idea what she was doing, I thought that perhaps one of my three babies ("Joyce" being a good 2-3 weeks...
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    Possibly sold a LF Cochin as a Bantam D'Uccle

    Hi there! This is my first post, though I've been a lurker for a while. I want a flock but I just graduated college, and my partner has one more year of his doctorate program, so it's rentals for us for the foreseeable future. I am, however, fortune to have worked out a deal with my lovely...
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