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    How many chicks do you hatch each year? How many birds are in your breeding flock?

    Around how many birds do you have as breeders and how many chicks do you hatch each season? I hatch about 50 chicks for each breeding flock, but have 12 breeding flocks so it adds up a bit. I'm considering downsizing my breeders but would like to know what number everyone else's flock hovers...
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    Exhibition Breeding; getting rid of white on red earlobes?

    I just bought a number of "exhibition Faverolles" and want to get back into breeding them. I got birds from one line but they grew out to have white earlobes, so I sold them and bought others from a different line. Turns out they have white on the earlobes too... I really don't want to get rid...
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    Using Wing bands for ID

    Hello everyone, In my time breeding I've always used leg tags to keep track of lineage and splits etc however this season I am looking into using wing bands instead. I'll be putting them on chicks however I have a few queries that I can't seem to find the answers to elsewhere: 1. Can wing...
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    New Orpingtons with multiple health issues

    Hi everyone, Today we bought 6 orpingtons from one person, two are from a reputable breeder. There is two splash, two blue, one blue buff and a project colour. At the first look, they appeared healthy. On the way home the splash hen was making clicking/squeaking sounds. We later on noticed that...
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    Unexpected Orpington colour hatched...

    Hi All, Firstly I didn't know whether to put this under this section or the breed and gender one. But I guess it is kind of about genetics. I have two Orpington pullets that hatched from a pen of Orps - a cuckoo rooster, a crele hen and a black hen. I expected to hatch Creles, Cuckoos and...
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    Urgent: Rescued wild Brown Quail eggs; Raising chicks?

    Hi everyone To make a long story short, a broody Brown Quail's nest was destroyed so I put the eggs in my incubator and they hatched today. (yes brown quail is the specie name not description). There is 8 chicks, right now they are in a small brooder with a source of heat and chicken starter...
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    Orpington Genetics - Columbian and 'Delaware'

    Hi All I have been developing Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons for a few years. I am now crossing my Lemon Cuckoo rooster with a Buff hen. The birds that hatched were Buff split females and barred males, as expected. However, two chicks were different from the others - they are 12 weeks old now and the...
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