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    Do GLW combs redden early?

    This is my first time raising Golden Laced Wyandottes... They're just over 4 weeks now and my *gut* tells me that I've got a pair... Even though it's still early to tell, AND even though they're both pretty red in the comb already 🤣🙈🤣 Oh AND even though the colouring is prettier/more dramatic...
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    At which stage did your shipped eggs fail?

    I'm sure there's a broad range of answers to this question, but my curiosity has gotten the best of me... If you incubated shipped eggs, did you notice that they never really started developing? Or did they make it to a certain point and then quit? These are my Day 8 candling results, and I'm...
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    My DIY Incubator!

    Just wanted to share :) My Hovabator is full of shipped eggs right now, and it was driving me crazy having all of these beautiful eggs on the counter from my own ladies... So I built another incubator! 🥰 Ignore the temp readings, that was just from having it open for a long time while setting...
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    My BCM pullet egg 🤦🏼‍♀️

    Aaaack, being disappointed after a long wait SUCKS!!! These are the BCM eggs of the lady I got my two pullets from: And this is my first one: 😭😭😭 I know pullets typically lay darker eggs that get lighter over time.... But I'm crossing my fingers it's the OPPOSITE with this girl!! Here's...
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    Swollen face, old age?

    Can a puffy face ever just be a sign of illness due to old age? I figure it probably means she has respiratory problems... But at this point I'm hoping that maybe it's not something in the whole flock? She's over 4 years old, and has really slowed down in the last while... She also has a...
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    How long would you expect stress to suspend egg laying?!

    I know moving to a knew location can be stressful... And getting dipped in gasoline due to a horrible case of (undisclosed) SLM was probably the stress of a lifetime... And I suppose we're still not entirely out of the winter lull...... So suddenly my "it's been well over a month now", doesn't...
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    Chick with almond/teardrop shaped eyelids?

    Has anybody seen this before? I didn't notice until looking at pictures (and then confirmed in person), but the top chick has almond shaped eyes! I think she's blinking a bit in the picture so it's exasperated, but they're not the typical round. Eyeballs/pupils themselves look perfectly...
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    Lock it doooowwwwnnn! 🎉

    First hatch of the year, and I'm so excited! Also first time trying this divider situation... I feel optimistic?! And since the lighting sucks in the incubator pic:
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    Another sour crop (?!) post

    I promise I've tried to do some reading... I've looked up the linked articles on other posts... But it's just my nature (anxiety) to need to talk through things... Sassy is a new addition to the family. She's currently in quarantine, with two other birds I got with her... She had a NASTY case of...
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    How long to lay each egg?!

    I set up a baby cam (with a spare old tablet) on my nesting boxes... And now I'm feeling rather bad for my ladies! They seem to spend hours hopping in and out of nesting boxes, testing a different one, switching places, sharing for a bit and then moving out, getting the rooster to approve the...
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    The plot thickens!!

    I got my first green egg 12 days ago... And have gotten one almost every day since... My son collected one yesterday morning, and then when I peeked this morning there was another one in there, and a couple ladies nesting around... Went back half an hour later and there were two!! So the ONLY...
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    2nd Generation EEs?

    I doubt I'm going to ask/explain this well... But until I hatch his offspring, do I have no way of knowing for sure that my EE rooster is a blue gene carrier, even if all of his "sisters" by the same rooster lay blue/green?! Even if he's guaranteed blue carrying, would his babies (with various...
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    How old do we think these BCMs are?

    Just for fun - any guesses? I was told "near POL" 🤷🏼‍♀️
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    Update - foamy poop? Lil guy seems unwell

    This EE is really "off" yesterday and today... He's laying down every chance he gets, and not jumping up on the roosts like he normally does... He still walks fine when he "has" to, but stops ASAP, lowers his tail and then lays down... I saw him eating and drinking. He feels skinny. No visible...
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    I'm sooooo mad 😡

    Ugggh. Dumb dumb dumb me. And dumb dumb dumb seller. I drove 4+ hours return yesterday to pick up some new birds. From a lady who's been "breeding for 20 years", yadda yadda yadda. She loaded the chickens for me (didn't want me walking around, for biosecurity reasons), and said she "looked them...
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    Best day of my life!!

    When you have been opening the nesting box doors day after day after day (5x a day 🙈) waiting for your first EE egg and then BAM!! I'm so happy I could cry! 🤣🤣. We had a thunderstorm last night, maybe it scared the egg outta her 🤣🤣 Side note - slightly *less* best day ever, because last night...
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    Help name my "company"?!

    At this point I'm mostly just looking to create a separate email address to keep egg/chick requests out of my Facebook inbox... A little backstory: we live on a wooded/hilly 6.5 acres overlooking a lake... Hubby was teasing me one night and said "don't you DARE turn our beautiful property into a...
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    Breed (mix) guesses?

    This lil lady hatched from a white egg. (a variety carton that I shockingly hatched in a tiny chinese cheapie incubator.). The eggs came from a free ranging farm with a wide variety of breeds. Just wondering if anybody has an opinion? I *thought* she had started (and stopped) laying before the...
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    What do you think?

    We brought this little lady home last March, and have never known what mix she is... I'm curious now, because she has been consistently laying an egg (nearly) every morning even through the darkest/shortest winter days! I don't have a great picture, and I'm snuggling with a post-headwound-glue...
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    Supplemental light - a summary of sorts 🤣

    Okee dokee... I just spent way too long reading forum posts and articles 🤣. I'm considering adding supplemental light for the first time ever... I feel *okay* with it (maybe still not great?) because we're past solstice...). And I'd really like to ramp things up so that I can get the incubator...
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