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    What color patterns are these mixed breed chickens?

    I hope this is the right place to ask. I'm interested in learning more about the genetics of our flock mostly for fun, and a little for what to expect when breeding next year and for rooster selection. We started out with Bovan Browns, then got a couple Barnyard mixed birds and though the...
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    Any Opal/Split Legbar chick sexing experts?

    This is an auto-sexing breed, so they should be sexable by down color, but I'm new to having this breed. I think I know for sure about 4-5 of them, the chick at the top is clearly male, and two of the splits look to be male as well, but not sure about the others. A couple have nice distinct...
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    What color is this going to be? (BYM chicks)

    So we hatched some chicks from our own chickens 3-4 weeks ago. We also hatched some purebred bought eggs, but we had dividers in the incubator that mostly worked 😆, so I'm pretty sure this chick is BYM and that we watched it hatch from a Bovan Brown egg. The chick was yellow with just a hint of...
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    New from Canada!

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I had childhood chicken experience and as an adult kind of always had the idea of getting chickens in the back of my mind, but not quite sure if I was ready to commit. Last year about this time one of my daughters(9 at the time) had...
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    Sexing 2 week old Wheaten Ameraucana and Barred Rocks?

    I have one wheaten Ameraucana chick and based on picture I've seen, it might be a she? Is that true? My daughter also got four straight run barred rock chicks hoping to get a future hen or two. Now I've been looking at a lot of articles on sexing barred rocks and it sounded like by the time...
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