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    How would you breed a barred bearded chicken?

    Apparently there's a few choices to get Olive Eggers: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/easter-eggers-barred-black-olive-eggers.47247/ If you wanted to be sure to get the blue gene, choose a EE rooster that carries two copies of the blue gene. If you want blue eggs instead of green...
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    Large Fowl Cochins

    I'm new to Cochins, I got five chicks from a breeder, got three Blues, one Splash and one Black. Any opinions on this Blue? Sorbet here looks great to my eye, but I'm biased. ;) 11 weeks old. Also, any opinions on if it's a cockerel or a pullet?
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    Drawing/paintings of chickens/other fowl!

    Inktober day 5 was "chicken", so of course I had to draw one of mine. This is Vivienne, who wasn't nearly as cranky as she looks here.
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    Drawing/paintings of chickens/other fowl!

    Holy!!! Those are amazing! I know this is a late response but I hope you see it! You aren't the artist that did the Henqisition, are you?
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    Chicken Crafts! (Show Off Your Craftiness)

    Made another one! Cream and blue colored. She's winking too. ;)
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    Chicken Crafts! (Show Off Your Craftiness)

    Thanks! She's my favorite too, and the coloring on her is a lot more subtle/varied than it looks in the photo.
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    Chicken Crafts! (Show Off Your Craftiness)

    So I've found a new obsession, and it's called lampworking (the technique of making glass beads with a rod of colored glass and fire) So what do I end up making? Chickens! A cute little pullet A roosting Brahma hen And a "buffalo chicken" ;)
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    Ended Contest #3 Cutest Baby Fowl - 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

    This is Vivienne the Easter Egger, who was seeing the outdoors for the first time.
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    Drawing/paintings of chickens/other fowl!

    Very nice!
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    Easter Egger club!

    Hope isn't completely lost for its case even if it is a cornish cross. Part of the reason they die so quickly is that they're fed up to their limit to make them grow as fast as possible. If you're not packing pounds onto it, (which puts strain on the heart and bones) then it may actually live...
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    Easter Egger club!

    The upside is that Brahmas are usually very sweet, and those feathery feet are a riot, especially when they're all grown up huge.
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    What to do with all these chicken feathers?? (craft ideas??)

    I made a steampunk style tophat out of leather and was looking for ornaments to put on it. Found a wooden bead with a big hole and arranged some of my EE feathers in it, perfect!
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    Easter Egger club!

    So sorry to hear that, sometimes these things just happen. You know you tried your best, and she was cared for right up until the end.
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    Easter Egger club!

    So my teeny peeps have gotten much bigger since I last posted! They're still peeping for the most part (although one or two of them make pathetic honking noises instead of clucking when upset over something) and a couple of nights ago I started putting them in the coop with the big girls. They...
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    Easter Egger club!

    In most cases, yes the offspring must resemble the parents except in cases where that's not possible, like "blue" genetics where a splash and black will make a mix of blue and black offspring (and some breed registries don't accept blue as an accepted color just for that reason). Breeding and...
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    Easter Egger club!

    The origins of all the blue egg layers are the Quechua, from South America. This thread is quite thorough in talking about the history of the breed: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/402512/quechua-tojuda-ameraucana-easter-eggers-in-vino-veritas In short, they came from South America, were...
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    ADOR1 Automatic Coop Door?

    Thanks for the reply, I did get a reply email from you. I ended up building a new coop and haven't yet put the Ador1 over, since a friend of mine that works with electronics said I might want to clean off the board and see if that helps with the battery drain issues I was having. I'll update...
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    Easter Egger club!

    I couldn't take it any more and got more EE's! My girlies are all going to be 3 years old this summer and last fall they all took a longer break during moult than I would have liked. They're all laying like crazy right now but I know that's not going to last, and since I only have one blue egg...
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    Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

    I have a Buff Orphington hen that also does what I assume is the "tidbit" sound when she's super excited about a treat. She'll stand looking at it going "tchook tchook tchook tchook tchook!" Which is promptly followed by the other hens snatching the food away from her, and her looking...
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    Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

    Ah, poor thing, that has to be frustrating for the both of you. I can't imagine the muscles in her neck feel good under that kind of tension, either. Here's to hoping she defies the odds yet again, but I'm glad you're willing to make the hard choice for her if it comes to that.
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