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    Silver laced cochins

    LF Silver laced cochins are hard to find in my area so I was wondering if I crossed my Silverlaced orpingtons to my black cochins what would I get for pattern? Normally I cringe at these kind of questions but it got me to wondering if I could at least come up with a feather footed laced bird. My...
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    Need color help

    Going to pick up a gold laced bantam cochin rooster and have my choice of a partridge, white or red hen to pair with him. I'm thinking the partridge is my best chance of producing the nicest colored offspring. Would like to get more gold laced if possible, what would red or white hens produce...
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    Blue Butterscotch Call Ducks

    I was able to come up with 2 butterscotch call duck hens but no drake. The only other colors I have are white and gray, so if I put them with my best gray drake I will get blue butterscotch offspring? I will be getting a young butterscotch drake in the fall for next year but I don't want to lose...
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    DIY Incubator Heat Source

    Just wondering what other people are using for heat sources in their diy incubators. I have 2 of them and in both I'm using 2 40 watt appliance bulbs. The good thing is if one burns out it's an easy fix, I always aim the fan at the bulbs to keep the air circulating and prevent hot spots. I have...
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    Call Duck Breeding

    So I have 3 different colors of call ducks and just wondering what to expect them to produce. Pair 1- blue fawn siblings, father was grey, mother was blue fawn. What ratio should I see? Trio 1-greys, drake is brother to pair 1 so blue fawn genetics in there and hens are all grey. What ratio...
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    DIY Incubator Thermostat

    I have a homemade incubator with a hot water heater thermostat that I added an auto turner early into a batch of duck eggs, in fairness I did raise the eggs up a few inches to better install the turner . Didn't touch the thermostat, I did move the fan a little to make room and left for work...
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    DIY Incubator Ventilation

    I'm looking for people to chime in with incubator dimensions along with ventilation hole quantity and size, purchased or diy to get an idea of cubic inches of incubator to ventilation holes ratio for proper airflow. Over the last couple of years I've had some pretty poor hatches even on very...
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    Basement Incubating, humidity too high?

    For years I've incubated quail eggs in my incubator in the basement to keep the ambient temperature more stable and would say it has worked well with high hatch rates and I don't recall ever having a hatched chick with any issues. Last year I hatched out multiple batches of orpington chicks and...
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    How many days for shipped eggs?

    Do you typically see a longer incubation time on shipped eggs due to aging during shipping? I have a dozen silver laced orpingtons eggs I set late on May 25th, haven't seen any external pips and haven't candled for internal pips at this point but I was hoping to have seen progress at this point...
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