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    Breeding experiments for colorful eggs from predator savvy, clean leg chickens with fun combs and crests

    This spring, I'm excited to experiment with a few new breeding groups. My 2021 experiments produced so many gorgeous and unique roosters that I've had trouble deciding which ones to give up. Before I let two of them go, I'm letting them produce my first round of fertile hatching eggs to sell...
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    Sexing 6-7 week old Gold Spangled Spitzhaubens

    I think I have 2 pullets and 2 cockerels. What do you think? Here are a few bonus photos of 3 & 4, since they happened to pose together...
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    Twisted neck appeared in 3 week old chick, still twisted but functional at 6 weeks. Doesn't seem as severe as wry neck. Please help. He's beautiful.

    I have a 6 week old cockerel who seemed normal for 2-3 weeks, although he did seem to be a little shy or deferential to other chicks (maybe it was just a slightly crooked neck that made it look like he was "bowing"). Then, I noticed his neck was twisted, making his head point to the right. He...
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    Is my chick ugly? Cream Legbar x Silver Spangled Hamburg

    For the past year, I've been experimenting with sex-linked and auto-sexing hybrids that lay colorful, predictable eggshell colors. Most have turned out really cool. This particular blue-egger hybrid wasn't on my list initially, but I had a lot of demand for blue eggs from people who wanted to...
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    Southeast Missouri Rainbow Hatching Eggs

    Farmington, MO -- about an hour south of St. Louis. In a few weeks, I will start collecting eggs from my flock to hatch for Easter. I've been experimenting with heritage breed crosses that create beautiful, predator savvy, Missouri climate hardy (for cold winters and hot, humid summers), free...
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    Do happy hens hatch more females? We want to hear your stories, if you've been lucky hatching pullets

    I was browsing through a separate thread on using extremely high temps to hatch only females, and came across several very interesting replies from @LaFleche, sharing experiences hatching high ratios of pullets from hens with low levels of stress. It inspired me to create a new thread, to try to...
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    Need someone who can read barred head spots like tea leaves- Cream Legbar x Dominque chicks

    I thought, after a couple of hatches of Dominique chicks and then some Dominique crosses, I would be able to read head spots by now. However, these littles have me stumped. They're one day old from a Cream Legbar rooster over a Dominique hen. They all look the same & don't look very "spotty" to...
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    Can you accurately sex day-old Olive Egger chicks (Legbar-Welsummer)?

    I just hatched 4 chicks from a Cream Legbar rooster x Olive Egger F1 hen (Cream Legbar over Welsummer). It looks like I have 3 pullets and a cockerel. What do you think? Here are close ups of the chicks... Chick #1 (Pullet?) Chick #2 (Pullet?) The two lightest colored chicks pictured...
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    Is there such a thing as Brown Sex Link? (using Barring gene)

    A couple of months ago, I hatched Black Sex link chicks from my Golden Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben rooster x Dominique hen. It's my understanding they were black as chicks because then hen was Extended Black (E), which is dominant over the rooster's Birchen (ER). In a few days, I'll...
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    Keeping peace in the chicken yard despite "too many" roosters and interfering with pecking order

    For nearly a year, I have had a free ranging, predator savvy flock with with access to 100+ acres & an automatic chicken door that lets them out in the morning and closes them in at night. My four 9-month old roosters, raised together, had co-existed peacefully with fewer than 25 hens between...
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    Chicken Math & Genetics Experiments in Southeast Missouri

    I recently left city life & corporate America after 20+ years and moved to rural southeast Missouri, to restart/rebuild the family farm where my dad grew up. I got my first chickens --4 Dominique hens and a Rooster--from Cackle Hatchery in June 2019. I thought I might expand the flock in 2020...
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    • #chickenmath #genetics appenzeller spitzhauben cream legbar dominique chicken missouri olive egger silver spangled hamburg speckled sussex welsummer
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