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  1. MaeIstrom

    Looking for a non-patterned red (gold) feathered breed that lays white eggs

    I'd like to create a flock of silver and barred hens under a red rooster to get both red and black sex links so something like a rhode island red would be ideal but I'd also like the chicks to be genuine easter eggers that could lay white, brown, green or blue and the only way to do that is a...
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    Has anyone here tried Beneficial Nematodes?

    I've been wrestling with stickfast fleas for about 3 years now and there seems to be a dormant corner of my pen where re-infections occur after months of having the main flock flea-free. Unfortunately it's the only place I have to put broodies with young chicks to keep them safe from the main...
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    Low fertility/testosterone rooster

    So I have an Araucana rooster that's been crowing and mating for at least 2 months now but the problem is he appears to mate much less than the average rooster. When I first tried doing a hatch he was in a pen with 28 females of varying age and the fertility was maybe 10-15%. Maybe a month ago I...
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    Should I abort a 1 chicken hatch?

    I started a hatch 8 days ago to test a new incubator/egg fertility and after candling I have exactly 1 viable egg with a second possible-but-probably-not egg. I've discarded the rest and I have a second lot going through that will be due to hatch a week later but in the meantime I'm torn on...
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    Rooster box derangement syndrome

    I live in a suburban area where roosters are technically illegal, luckily none of my neighbours have reported me and have been bribed with free eggs from time to time, that said I'm always looking for ways to minimize the noise and the best way I've found so far is a "rooster box" which I put...
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    What color is this?

    I have a line of mostly Araucana with layers of leghorn & cream legbar infused in. The cream legbar heritage has produced some novel patterns and colors over the years and whenever I see red patterning I try to bring it out but historically they were always male, I finally got a hen last year...
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    The Amazing Austraucana: Call for Perth/WA Breeders

    So a couple of years back I set out to create a new breed of chicken that retained the intelligence and personality of an Isa Brown but pared back the laying output to about 90% so as to eliminate the host of reproductive disorders and cancers that doom so many of these birds to a short life and...
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    What Breed is this rooster?

    Owner says the last tenant paid $300 for this dubious looking character. I'm sceptical...
  9. MaeIstrom

    What is your strategy for adding new birds and risk management for Mareks disease

    This query mainly relates to Mareks disease and how important vaccinations are to breeders/buyers of poultry. In my city monitoring poultry adverts it appears that large hatcheries that vaccinate are selling as many birds as they can hatch and breeders who don't are struggling to sell stock and...
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    Are 3/4 Cream Legbars sexable?

    I have a female from a CCL/hyline brown cross that I can't help but notice has the exact same dosage of the barring gene as a pure-bred CCL female if not the same coloring so my question is if bred back to a CCL rooster will the offspring be sexable? And would that mean that CCL and barred...
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    Can I get sex-links from these chicks?

    So I've just hatched 5 chicks that were from a cream crested legbar rooster over leghorn and hyline brown hens, I've ended up with 4 completely white leghorn chicks and one hyline that appears to be black and white striped and maybe a splash of red on the wings. I know the females in this hatch...
  12. MaeIstrom

    Bad Broody

    I have a wyandotte that's always excelled in finding the most inconvenient spot to sleep or lay eggs but she has really outdone herself this time, she's managed to create a secret nest in a ditch between a wall and a bank of loose sand that threatens to cave in every time I approach her. To make...
  13. MaeIstrom

    Do Mareks-vaccinated chickens spread the vaccination?

    So according to https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq.66077/ a mareks vaccination is accomplished by injecting a chick with a harmless form of the virus (MDV-3) which allows the immune system to recognize and fight the deadly strain (MDV-1). If the bird...
  14. MaeIstrom

    The Annual Eggy Awards Are Here!

    Inspired by a conversation on another thread and finding a box of expired food I thought a competition for the most elaborate chicken dinner was in order. Please note this means a dinner prepared FOR your chickens not from them. Please post recipes and photos of the best meal you've ever...
  15. MaeIstrom

    What color is this Ameraucana?

    Either an Ameraucana or a home-spun attempt at recreating one by crossing Araucana to OEG bantam which is how I presume the original was done since they come in the same colors as OEG apparently. I realise the legs are the wrong color which I why I suspect it was local recreation but definitely...
  16. MaeIstrom

    Crossing Isa Browns to Heritage breeds

    I recently got some 18 month old isa browns and was quite perturbed to find out that not only were their laying days effectively over but that they would be lucky to live past 3 and considered essentially worthless. And while I may be confusing the effects of hand-rearing with breed temperament...
  17. MaeIstrom

    My name is Steve and I have a problem...

    It started some 30 years ago when my parents tasked me with taking care of the family flock, mainly australorp/leghorn hybids for eggs, a few silkies for chick-rearing duties and an OEG bantam rooster who I saw maybe twice a year as he would pop in to say hello to the hens before flying off into...
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