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    I'm not an expert in chicken genetics.... but how did I get such different varieties??

    I have a group of 3 chicks that hatched. They were from either a sapphire sky or amercuana hen. My chicks are white, blue with a white dot on it's head and brown with gold flecks. Potential daddies were/are silver leghorn or brown leghorn with rose comb (we know the brown chick is the brown...
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    Did we get the wrong chick??

    We went to our feed store a month ago and purchased black sex links. I know there can be some leakage but is this a black sex link Cockerel or did someone mess up the bin and we have an interloper in our midst??
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    Too early??

    I've got a day 16/17 egg that is wiggling but no pip and the other ones are alive but not wiggling. Should I do a 5 day lock down instead of 3 and what do I do about humidity?? Right now it's 50% and I'm worried putting it higher will drown the other chicks. I have the nurture 360.
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    Diamond Duchess??

    This breed is exclusive to farm and home and I gotta know-- what roo over barred rock hen for the colored eggs?? It's been driving me nuts and obviously they're not going to tell. 😂
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    Well, this is a head scratcher....

    I can't find this anywhere but several months v ago we ordered a group of polish hens.... including a white one that is now clearly a white splash. We purchased them from Hoover and they don't carry splash but they did carry "white" at the time. What would be her parentage to be the white...
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    Cross breeding Silver Seabright and OEGB

    Roo is silver Seabright, Hen is silver duckwing. I checked to see if anyone has done it before here and didn't see any threads pop up.
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    Cockerel confirmation

    Hello this is one of our white capped blues. 18 weeks old. We had a white capped black with waddles like this that wound up being a hen. There are two more with waddles but they're pale. One is white and one is a gold laced. It's not usually that dirty. Leave it to a Polish chicken to find...
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    Why is it so hard to find silkie color charts??

    I've been trying to figure out if the lavender gene can breed into chocolate coloration. I've been looking things up for two days... an I missing something?? I can find blue and black and to get lavender but not lavender to another bird. I'm not breeding but was wondering why this was.
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    Cochin vs Brahma

    Hello everyone. Our group that survived we wound up with one partridge cochin hen.... and I have an adult brahma hen I know was much bigger in size then my cochin at 20 weeks. I thought they were similar in size as adults and can grow slow but.... she's either small for a cochin or my brahma is...
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    5 week old cochin-- sprain??

    Hello, my mother went to check the brooder and our Cochin is limping -- it is walking on the outside of it's foot. I'm not sure if it's a sprain or what is going on, I felt each leg from toes to thigh joint and nothing feels out of place. The only think I can relate it to would be if a human...
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    McMurray headache

    We ordered the rare breed assortment from McMurray this year, they've been identified breed wise but one. It's all black, pink skin, and dark legs, very camera shy as it's the smallest and and hides underneath everyone else. It only has 4 toes. I want to say it's just a bsl pullet but because...
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    Buff brahma or Cochin??

    Two of these came in our rare breed special from Murray McMurray and I'm leaning cochin. I have a brahma and it's just not screaming out brahma to me. We're happy either way. We have some really weird looking speckled ones but they headed straight for the brooder plate when we got them in the...
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    Electronic rodent trap question/recommendation

    My mom purchased an owltra indoor/outdoor trap and is now hesitant to use it because we had a garage fire last year and she had a nightmare about it sparking and setting our barn on fire even though it's battery powered. Anything I can do to reassure her?? It's got great reviews and my indoor...
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    ISO polish hens in Michigan

    Hello-- southern shiawassee county and we've looked everywhere online for Polish chicks but they're sold out I think my mother would take adults she just wants some fluffy heads in the flock that are clean legged. I've lost my way to the Michigan forum so if someone can send me there or you're...
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    I feel dumb for asking but I've never raised an orp from chick to pol

    One of our buff orp ladies laid an enormous double yolker and then back to business as usual. She's fine but I was wondering if it's a breed thing. My Brahma hen did a few as a pullet but they weren't nearly as massive. Should I expect more or will it likely be a one time deal?? I keep thinking...
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    Has anyone crossed BO hen with Olive Egger/SLW roo??

    I was thinking about this last night and was wondering if the buff and red tones would be more pronounced. I was also thinking sapphire rocks and RIR. We have a very nicely tempered SLW/egger roo and know already it would be a Heinz 57 mix but I was thinking color dominance, not sex linking...
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    Rooster vs Hen during molt

    My usually calm d'uccle rooster has been overly amorous this summer and my hen squared up with him. She's the dominant hen and will fight roos or hens if provoked enough when she molts... but she's been really calm... until I walked into the coop this morning greeted by a loud rooster and an...
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    24 what and no sign of pol...

    My seabright/d'uccle mix is 24 weeks, and still not laying, she hasn't pinked up in the crest with her adult female comb in. I'm aware that they're not a huge egg laying breed , but her mom was at pol at 18 weeks and I find it a bit odd. Should I be concerned?? She's healthy. Her brother is in...
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    BSL confusion

    My mom brought home half dozen chicks of which two are black sex links. One of them is black with red extending into it's wings, the other is black with the normal amount of red I'm used to seeing. I've read that roosters of the breed always look like a standard barred rock. Is that true or do I...
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    Fire extinguisher dust

    We almost had a coop fire-- I got it before it reached it but my chickens were close enough to inhale the dust. I've been observing them and they seem okay but I am worried. Everyone's eating and drinking and pooping normally.
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