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    Selecting for Short / Non Crowing Line (Share recordings from different breeds?)

    I want to develop a dual purpose city-friendly line, thus the interest in low/non crowing. I'm sure they'd still vocalise to some extent, but I want to try to get it to be as infrequently as possible during the day, and for it to be shorter/softer so as to be less obtrusive to city/suburban...
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    FREE 2 Roosters (RIR, & Bantam Barred Rock) - LOCAL ONLY Wheaton, IL

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOT AN AUCTION! DO NOT BID! I am looking for the best placement, not for $$$ Just email me (preferred to forum messaging) at agangi (at) fithfath (dot) com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have two good-tempered pet roosters that I am looking for a new home for. One is...
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    Is this odd one out still a JG, or soemthign else?

    These chicks are approx 5 and a half weeks old. They were from an order where most died from the Post Office's screwing up and letting them freeze. The order had lots of Jersey Giants, and a few White Faced Spanish, Cuckoo Marans, a Bantam rose comb, and other non-black breeds. I had 1...
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    hatchign eggs - 1st time questions

    I'm interested in getting some geese via eggs. Is hatching eggs basically the same process as if I got chicken or duck eggs? (just of course, longer incubation time) How big are the eggs- will they fit in a mini Brinsea incubator? If not, can I put them under a broody hen, and if so, how...
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    Wyandotte... what colour?

    Had Wyandotte hatching eggs that were silver laced, gold laced, blue laced red, and partridge in LF and Bantam. Things didn't go so well, but two hatched (well, maybe a third will hatch late, but I don't know...) One is obvious LF, the other bantam.... But I do not know how to tell what...
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    What does "splits" mean?

    Sorry, that probably looks like a stupid question, but I have never seen this in my other animal fanciers (rats, gerbils, cavies etc) What does "splits" mean? I keep seeing it in auctions... So if an auction says it is for " Split Black Lavendar Orps" Does it mean the chicks are...
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    Hatching 2 days late?

    I was expecting a current clutch of eggs to hatch on the 17th. I gave them an extra day and decided if they didn't hatch then, I'd do a float test and proceed from there... well, this morning (the 19th) I went to get the eggs to do the test, and finally! I hear them chirping and ONE egg has a...
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    impromptu field-trip

    My mum is over, helping us get packed to move, and she notices there'skids in the back yard.... in the past we had a problems with the neighbour's 7 kids coming over and the youngest boy thinking it great fun to throw rocks at the chickens, but they put up a fence and that solved the problem...
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    What Kind of comb is this? Genetics?

    I've seen this now and then in photos and have been wondering about it.... In haTHOR's auction listing here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=461476 you can see a chicken with a comb that looks like a single, but without any points.... Is there a name for this? What...
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    Multiple black breeds:when/how to ID chicks- Minorca, WFBS, Sumatra...

    I have black minorca and white faced black spanish. When/how can I tell them apart? (There were langshan too, but I got those sussed out by the leg feathers :-) ) I also have black rosecomb and black sumatra in the mix, can those be told apart yet? I have photos of all of them at 4 days of...
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    Barring on a mille fleur/speckled sussex?

    I was playing around with the chicken calculator online, and some of the crosses I tried resulted in chickens that were genetically barred mille fleurs. But the calculator has no image for them. Can anyone tell me what they'd look like, or better yet, photos? Reason I was playing with this...
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    What breed is this White Bantam?

    Only surviving solid white bantam with clean legs in a shipment... could it be a White Cornish Bantam? Or a Red Pyle OEG? Or, would McMurray's send Japanese that had long legs or do they cull those out before shipping? If they ship long legged ones, then add black tailed white japanese to the...
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    Is this Jersey Giant (and how/when can they be sexed?)

    Ordered 3 males and 7 females from McMurrays. There were also WF Spanish in the order but I think those would have more white on the face, am I correct? These 5 are the only black chicks that survived. They are approx. 3 weeks old. So these should all be JGs? If so, how/when can they...
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    Is this the ordered EE, or 'free mystery rare breed'?

    I ordered, among other breeds, some EE's, which I know can vary a lot in appearance. All the other breeds in this shipment were black, spare one dark Brahma and that's featherfooted. So the only other thing this chick *might* be is the "free mystery rare breed" that McMurrays includes (OR it...
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    Is my Post Office Full of @#!& (hatcheries ship "illegally"?)

    I placed an order with McMurray for a xmas/bday gift to myself, (Original thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=449196 )) to be shipped when ready; When they shipped it the first time (I think that was 1st week of Feb?) it was during that big blizzard. They shipped out...
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    Crossing Cornish to....

    I am curious about Cornish and Cornish crosses... Are Bantam Cornish also eaten, or are those just for show? I know the popular commercial cross has health problems (heart, legs etc from growing too fast) BUT... If you do the same cross but using Bantam birds do the same health problems...
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    Cracked Egg! (fertile)

    I was just candling the eggs and one of them dropped - not far- it just is slightly dented in on the end with a spider-web design of cracking around the spot. Nothing leaked out. But I am worried if I put it back under the hen it will completely break under her -haha- immense weight (bantam...
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    Leg bands

    I need a reliable identification method (no toe hole punching!). I assume that would mean some kind of leg band (any other method I'm unaware of). I do have bad joints and an allergy to latex/rubber so it cannot be rubber/latex, and it must be easy to apply. The spiral leg bands look like...
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    Wing size difference

    These two chicks are approx 4 days old. I was just wondering, is the difference in the wing size normal? It seems pretty extreme, but this is only my 3rd time raising chicks from this young of an age, and the last time was only 1 chick so I wouldn't have noticed if anything like this was off...
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    19/36 dead chicks- is this normal? :-( how do I ID which breeds died?

    This is my first time ordering chicks via mail. I ordered 32 chicks from McMurray's. They sent me 36 and HALF where dead! I knew to expect a few to not make it, but this many??? I checked their page on the issue here: http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/guarantee.html As I'll be contacting...
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