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    Wheaten x Black Copper Marans pictures?

    Does anyone have pictures of black copper marans crossed with wheaten marans? I am incubating my own eggs. I have a black copper marans rooster. One of my hens is a wheaten marans who lays as dark as my black coppers. I set eggs from her and 3 black copper marans hens. So, my chicks will be...
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    Marans in the incubator. :)

    16 Marans (and 2 EE x Marans, hopefully olive eggers) in the incubator. I'm not going to number them until first candling, because I suspect only 2/3 or so will be fertile. Last time I hatched eggs they were shipped and I only got 5/16 to hatch. These are my own eggs, so I'm hoping for better...
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    Silliest little fart egg :)

    My chicken misunderstood the assignment. "Olive eggs" do not need to be literally the size of an olive. 😆
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    First eggs - keep me company while chicken stalking?

    I am starting to get first eggs from my 11 March chicks. Prairie Dawn (a prairie bluebell) is the confirmed layer of the blue pullet egg. I have a new olive egg that's gorgeous 🥰. But I have 3 olive eggers whose combs all look similarly red, and I think I may be getting a new brown egg as...
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    Don't buy the NestEcho egg candler.

    PSA: don't buy this. I bought this NestEcho rechargeable candler on Amazon for $13. The LED assembly is really cheap and flimsy and it started smoking and burned out after 2 uses. I paid $22 for a different one that runs on AAA batteries and I'm much happier!
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    Lavender Wyandotte 5 weeks gender.

    What do you think about Lavender? S(he) is a wyandotte, 5 or 6 weeks old. Bought as a sexed pullet. So far overall she looks like a pullet to me, but the comb looks very wide and puffy, and I'm not sure about this comb type. I'd love to see your comparison pictures.
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    Onyx Olive Egger?

    I bought this chick labeled as an "Onyx Olive Egger" from a farm store in Colorado. She has white black washed legs with two or three feathers on a couple of her toes. Single comb that is black in color so far. Plumage is coming in mostly black with faint flecks of copper brown here and there...
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    Chicken math

    My chicken math: Decided on 4 chicks this year, but my daughter wanted a leghorn, so we came home with 5. Six weeks later, Broody hen insisted she needed eggs so I gave her some from a friend who has a nice rooster. Only one was viable, and it ended up quitting too. But I'm a softie, so Broody...
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    Chick pics for fun.

    Weeks ago I mentioned that our feed store was getting chicks in on Valentine's Day. On the morning of the 14th when I said happy Valentine's Day to my 3-year old, she rubbed her eyes and replied, "where's our chicks?"🤣 That's my girl. So I picked her up early from preschool on Friday and we...
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    Easter eggs

    We did a mix of silk dyed eggs and regular food coloring this year. Somehow the two year old didn't spill any dye and only smashed two eggs!
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    Mystery chick

    Got this one at a farm store. She was in a bin marked barnelveders and cochins, but is clearly neither of those. I got her anyway because she's cute and I like a mystery. No apparent comb yet, so probably not single comb. Clean white/pink legs. I have two guesses, but what are yours?
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    What are you making this Holiday?

    Show me your Christmas projects! What are you making? Last year for my daughter's first Christmas, we hung up actual socks. This year I decided to make matching stockings, and I love how they turned out. I cut the pieces from a sweater dress from Goodwill, sewed with embroidery thread, and made...
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    Really dark welsummer egg?

    I have three Black Copper Marans hens who lay nice dark eggs. I can usually tell whose is whose. (Minnie's is larger and redder, Posie's is lighter and oranger, and Pansy's is darker with speckles.) However, today I got one egg from each of them, and this little bitty pullet egg too. (Smallest...
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    Naughty Posie.

    I knew Posie was flying over the fence, but I wouldn't have found this if I hadn't been out digging potatoes yesterday. Now it's the joy of my afternoon to climb up and gather one egg from the flower bed over the potato patch.
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    Broody solidarity

    I have never had a broody hen before in 10 years of chicken keeping.... And now that my coop is already 4 birds over capacity, I have not one, but TWO. Lol. C'est la vie. Letting them have a total of 5 eggs, 2 and 3 each, and hoping they each hatch one.
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    Meet the new farmhand.

    Georgie Porgie Puddin Pie. My new farm hand. The chickens act like they know he's supposed to be a predator, but can't figure out why he's so small.
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    Bielefelder mix. Want to guess?

    I'm aware it's too early to determine sex, but I wondered if anyone wants to guess. This chick is 3 weeks old, and it's half Bielefelder (dad) and I believe half whiting true green (bio mom). I'm assuming it's a boy, because that's what I do with straight run chicks, but the salmon orange...
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    Junior's first trip outside.

    This broody has been working so hard. Her original clutch of eggs failed, and this chick is from an egg my husband forgot to collect while I was out of town. She was on her nest for almost 40 days. Today she took Junior outside for the first time.
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    When to consider helping?

    I have a duplicate thread going, so sorry if you're seeing this twice. I have a first time broody hatching a chick that pipped normally, but is not zipping normally and is missing a lot of shell. The egg may or may not have been stepped on by a hen. It's cracked all around and missing maybe...
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    Be excited with me?

    So I let my broody have some eggs, and left my husband in charge while I traveled out of town.(eye roll) He did a terrible job at taking fresh eggs out from under her, so I ended up with eggs at all stages of development. I only saw movement in one of the original eggs, so I marked three of them...
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