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    hens soaking wet from getting rained on andit's cold ousite?

    Today my chickens got soaked and the have a dry coop to roost in out of the wind, but I checked them just at dark on the roost and one hen especially is still very wet. It's been getting down in the 30's and 40's F. at night. Do I need to turn the heat on in the coop with a brooder light? I...
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    Black Copper Marans hatching eggs, feathered legs and good egg color.

    Black Copper Marans were originally a french breed that are new to the U.S. I've read that they were the preferred eggs to use by french Chefs and James Bond! They are known for their extremely dark egg color, darker than any other common breed. I do my best to breed according to the standards...
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    4 Black Copper Maran and 4 Olive Eggers, pick up in North,MS

    My black copper marans are good quality marans, that come from show lines that I have selectively bred to improve. I believe in breeding to the french standard. The Olive Eggers are from a cross between my show quality rooster with an Easter Egger Hen that carries a blue egg gene. The hope is...
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    exploding egg... a v ery serious matter!

    So... I was handling the eggs for the final time in preparation to load the hatcher. Apparently I missed an egg that was bad last time i candled... I found an egg that had a dark line in it along where the air cell line usually is, I tried to pick it up out of the tray, but it was stuck. I...
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    HELP just baught a big cabinet hatcher and it has no airholes!

    It's a hatcher that has never been used. I need it soon to be operational. But after I baught it I figured out it didn't have any air holes.. He failed to mention that to me when I purchased it. Its about three feet tall and has a false back inside it. it has wind compartment that starts from...
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    HIgh Quality Black Copper Maran Chicks, Batesville,MS pick up only

    Black Copper Marans were originally a french breed that are new to the U.S. I've read that they were the preffered eggs to use by french Chefs and James Bond! They are known for their extremely dark egg color, darker than any other common breed. A true black copper maran should meet the...
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    107 F. can i please have som thoughts? thanks

    That temperature was totally an accident. My incubator is regulated by air vents and I apparently closed to many last night it slowly reached 98.5 last night one hour after I adjusted it so I went to bed at 11:30 and woke up to check it at 8:30 am., hoping to be real close to 100... Nope 107...
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    looking for Norwegian Jaerhon Hatching Eggs

    Looking for a deal, hopefully not to far from MS. Thanks Sincerely!
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    Im looking for hatching eggs near Bnatesville,MS

    Even if you live anylwhere close let me know pls! I always have cool stuff to trade too! Thanks!
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    has anyone ever experenced this? clean legged cochin

    So I bought some hatching eggs from a guy that raises standard buff cochins, I hatched out 8 and they are about 10 weeks old now, and at about 4 weeks old I noticed 2 of them have perfectly clean leggs! I'm 99 percent sure all had feathered leggs when I transferred them from the incubator to the...
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    ameraucana/easter egger, olive egger, and blueXbuff orpingtons chicks

    The easter eggers and olive eggers are some that I have selectively bred for feather and egg color, I only hatch bluish shades and my olive eggers came from a dark egg laying cuckoo maran crossed with my easter egger rooster. The orpingtons are a cross between blue and buff feather colors, it...
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    Black Copper Maran Hatching Eggs 1 Dozen

    I got my original stock from one of the top breeders in the U.S. I take extremely good care of my hatching eggs
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    So im starting an EE/Ameraucana/blue egg project

    My eventual goal will be to have a bird that meets all the APA standards of an ameraucana with a new feather pattern. what I'v e done so far is I ordered a bunch of easter eggers from a hatchery, and to my surprise I was very impressed with the quality of the EE's they all have three row pea...
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    Lavender crossed with Blue anybody know for sure what will happen?

    I have a self blue (lavender) orpington rooster and I have a friend who took him off my hands to breed him to his 9 blue hens. Does anybody know what this will do or has anyone done something similare to this? Thanks
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    Speckled Sussex cockerals pick up only, v ery healthy, vaccinated

    I'm culling my roosters, if ur looking for some to eat or have for breeding these would be good stock, they are full blooded speckled sussexs
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    is this too cold should i expect dead chicks?

    So on the 18th day of incubation I moved my eggs to the hatcher. Raised the humidity and because of some thermometer issue's in the morning of the 21th day wich is this morning, I discovered the tempertature had been at 95 to 94 I raised the temp to 100 and has been there all day. So tonight...
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    Help! my chickens probably just ate some 13-13-13 !! advice please!

    Yesterday I put out some new wheat seeds and some 13-13-13 on my rye grass patches and along with the wheat seeds. I figured it was gonna rain today and dissolve the 13 13 13 before I let my birds range. Well it didn't rain. I was on the phone and while I was checking for eggs I turned my...
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    Show bloodline cochin trio, three colors blue splash, black, blue roo

    They came from a breeder in GA that raised her cochins from show bloodlines. These birds are amlost 4 and a half months old
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    Ameraucana/Easter Egger Rooster

    He originally came from cackle hatchery. He's been vaccinated for merecks. He is white, red, yellow and blue very colorful. Approximately 6 months old. Good facial muffs, dark leggs and a nice pea comb.
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    white legghorn rooster. Half Cackle stock half Kentucky show rooster

    Must pick up if wanted. I live I'm Batesville MS
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