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  1. Elana DeBolt

    Boy or girl??

    I've had a good idea of who is who up until now. I have some 5 week old chicks that I thought were pullets, and 2 that I thought was cockerels, but now it's looking backwards... The group of all 11, with some clear Roo's One I thought was a roo but looks more like a pullets compared to the...
  2. Elana DeBolt

    Americauna or EE?

    I know that Americauna's don't always meet the breed color standers so I'm not sure which she is, she lays blue eggs Americauna or EE? Thoughts?
  3. Elana DeBolt

    Silkie egg color: recessive or dominate

    Ok so I've been reading and I'm a little confused.... If I breed an ameracauna (B/B) to a silkie (?/?) the blue egg color will come down and I'd have EE's right? Carrying at lest one Blue gene (b/?) so does that mean that the silkie cream color is recessive? Or do egg color gene not work like...
  4. Elana DeBolt

    Boy or Girl : Silkie, Ayam Cemani's, and Cochin Bantam

    Ok here's the chicks on trial :p They are 9 to 10 days old in these pics Now I know silkies take a while to sex by site by I know there are some silkie pro's on here I have no idea on this one, (same chick in the first two pics) I think that this Cemani is a girl And this one a boy I also...
  5. Elana DeBolt

    Blue or Lavender?

    Good evening, so I have a few olive and easter eggers and I'm not sure what color they are or what their parents were, I have a lavender orpington roo to compare and they don't look lavender, but not blue either. I bred the olive egger roo to a black olive egger hen and am try to figure out what...
  6. Elana DeBolt

    Silkies Pros and Cons!

    I was scheming a chick purchase in the next few months and was looking at getting some silkies, I want a hen that will be consistently broody so i thought it would be a good fit. Yalls thoughts?
  7. Elana DeBolt

    FEEDING QUAIL

    I was thinking about getting quail and I was wondering if I can feed the quail babies 'chick starter' (but the kind for chickens) and if I could feed the quail adults 'layer feed' (but again the kind for chickens) My thing is that my parents (and my self) won't go for it if I have to get a...
  8. Elana DeBolt

    If you cross a...

    If I was to cross a olive egger rooster(the black copper maran x Americana) with a leghorn hen, will I get a lighter egg, possibly a blueish shade, and in if I was to mix that cross with another leghorn could I bring out the blue egg color??
  9. Elana DeBolt

    My chicks leg

    So my chick is around 4 week's old and a few days ago I noticed that the chick's knee was a little bigger than the other, and 2 weeks before that I noticed that the chick pointed it's toe's out when it walked. I had to help this chick hatch but when I opened the incubator it jumped out and...
  10. Elana DeBolt

    My first momma hen! :)

    So last year, July 9th, I hatched a chick that was a road island red roo crossed with a light brahma hen, she grew up fast, she laid her first egg in December, and now she is broody:celebrate She lost her first batch at day five:( Then she lost her sceond batch on day one,:( But she is on her...
  11. Elana DeBolt

    What's up with my chick?!?

    Ok so I hatched 14 chicks around 3 to 4 week's ago and from my leghorn eggs one hatched out black, that makes sense because the dad is a golden laced wyanndott, but now that he is getting his feathers in I'm seeing stripes. He isn't the only one of this mix but he is the only black one, and the...
  12. Elana DeBolt

    Broody hen? RIR Roo x BL Hen

    My chicken is 21 weeks and 5 days and just laid her first egg yesterday, so she isn't going broody any time soon, but i was hoping over the summer i could get her to go broody. To the people who have had a Road island red rooster crossed with a light brahma hen, do they go broody at all, has...
  13. Elana DeBolt

    My chicks first egg

    My RIR X LB is 21 weeks and 4 days old today, her name is Blair, and she laied her first today. It don't have a yoke but I still consider it her first egg, I'm SO PROUD OF HER:)!! Here is a pic of her and a pic of her egg vs a large store egg vs one of my leghorns eggs, its labled other ^This...
  14. Elana DeBolt

    what breeds are this chicks

    I have a some chicks that i'm not serten of their breeds, i know the mothers but not the fathers. i was thinking that maby they have the same dad because they both have a black line on their heads. i have a 4 day old chick from a brahma hen with the roo posiblilities of a rir, a brahma, and a...
  15. Elana DeBolt

    WHAT DID MY HEN JUST LAY???

    When i let my chickens out of the coop today my cimmimen queen was acting slugis, turnes out she's egg bond. So as i was seting up an epson salt bath she pooed this out(pics below)
  16. Elana DeBolt

    Lowering Humidity

    I'm running my "Mini 7 Eggs Digital Incubator Temperature Control Chicken Duck Goose Egg Incubator Automatic Egg Incubator" dry but the RH is 50%. Is there any way I can get it down it 30% RH? Would putting a soda lid with rise in it help absorb some of the humidity?
  17. Elana DeBolt

    Humidity for day 1 through day 18

    What is the best humidity to keep chicken eggs on day 1 through day 18.
  18. Elana DeBolt

    Hen not laying eggs

    One of my hens stopped laying for over 3 now, she is over 4 years old and a little on the fat side plus she has been a little stressed, (i know that those can be factors that causes no eggs), and if that was the only thing i wouldn't be to concerned because i can help her with that. What i'm...
  19. Elana DeBolt

    Incubating chicken eggs, it's day 25, and no pips internally or exturnaly.... what should it do???

    I have done the float test, the water candling test, candling with a light, and tapped the egg. On day 21 the chick was alive but hadn't pipped in or out out the egg, on day 22 i saw no movement:th, and on day 23 i saw a small blood speck on the line of the air cell, this is my first hatch and...
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