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    Spitzhauben and Blue Ameraucana sex?

    I posted a while back needed help/confirmation that 3 out of 4 of my Salmon Favorelles were roosters (they were). Now, I'm pretty sure all 4 of my 12 week old Blue Ameraucanas are roosters. They look virtually identical; one has crowed (yellow band). No coloration to speak of on the comb, or...
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    Method of marking/ID'ing chickens

    I have 4 Blue Ameraucaunas, about 10 weeks old. At least one has started crowing, but they all look identical to my eye. Is there a safe method to identify each one so, when one crows, I know it's time to find them a home. They all have the same feathering, and such tiny combs. Possibly one of...
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    3 Men & a Lady? Salmon Faverolles

    These chicks are 4.5 weeks old. What do you think - did we lose out this time on the male/female genetics dice? The sooner I know, the sooner I can try to place them, as I'm pretty certain I have some roosters in my other two breeds of chicks. They are slow in getting feathers, but I'm seeing...
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    Garden Loft coop plans - do wild birds enter through top?

    We're building a modified version of the Garden Loft coop. The plans show a flat hardware cloth roof/ceiling to the run and coop, with the area above open between the beams. My husband's certain that wild birds will fly in and sit on top, leaving behind droppings. Worried about avian flu, he...
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    Slackers, or am I expecting too many eggs?

    I have seven laying hens. The maximum # of eggs that I've gotten is 4; daily average is 3; sometimes I get 2 or 1. Egg production began increasing in January, more so in February and March, but seems to have stopped at the average of 3 eggs. Is 3 out of 7 considered a good percentage of...
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    Is this a Mille Fleur D'uccle? (roo)

    When a friend had a broody hen, he bought 3 Mille Fleur D'uccle chicks at 3 weeks, purportedly from a show breeder. The hen promptly killed 2, and I got the last one. At first, I thought it resembled Mille Fleur chicks, but now he has a crazy topknot and no "fleurs". I have read that their...
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