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  1. SoCalChicky

    Marans, OE, mixed chicks in San Diego

    I have splash and blue (solid) Marans, 3rd gen Olive Eggers, and mixed layer breed chicks available! Started on organic SnP, not vaccinated and no antibiotics. Straight run. 1-4 weeks. ~Barnyard mix chicks are $5-10 each depending on age. Will lay white, blue, brown, or green. ~Marans and OE...
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    Blue and Splash marans

    Hey there! Was on here a lot a few years back finding breeders and researching, and then took a long break. Now I'm back since I finished working on my line. I am getting some good color on my eggs! Love my marans!
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    Guess I never did this!

    Hi there, long time stalker occasional poster. My name is Heather and I am in northern San Diego. We live on 3 acres and I have had chickens for almost 3 years now. I mostly have and breed Marans but there's a WA and a couple CLs, and mutts in there, too :) my very sweet splash roo just died...
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    Marans experts...I need your help...

    I bought fertile eggs a year ago from a BYC member with good stock. Might not be to show standards but I'm not needing that for my purposes anyway. I hatched a BCM roo and 5 hens. My roo was killed by something that jumped our high fence in broad daylight. anyway I saved all fertile eggs I had...
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    San Diego white Silkie Roo

    N SD county PICKUP only NO SHIP My beloved "Marshmallow" that I bought to be my broody has started crowing :( At 9 months old, he's a fluffy adorable nugget. I nursed him back from cocci and pasty butt. He's a fighter! Has been pampered and well fed with organic feed and probiotic-rich kefir...
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    To let brood or incubate...that is the Q..WORDY :/

    Soo... Some **** stray dog or cat climbed my 6 ft fence and killed 7 of my free ranging flock..3 of them were my Roos :( I happen to have two broodies...own of whom was moved to the Chicken tractor 2 days before the attack and her and her 4 chicks are fine (although one was frantic and...
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    Came home to 5 dead 2 missing

    This devastated my flock of 19.. ESP since 3 of the confirmed dead were my roosters. My protection is gone :(. There are feathers everywhere and 4 chickens with snapped necks it seems (no other signs of trauma except my poor Marans had all his tail feathers pulled out). My gorgeous BLR Wyandotte...
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    Silky acting strange!

    My 14 week old silky is acting drunk...she just recovered from a 10 day course of coidistat or whatever it's called for cocci. I was going to let her out today but decided to wait until tonight...she was fine after day one of treatment and I kept her in quarantine from our 22 others. I already...
  9. SoCalChicky

    Help sexing my new brood!

    posted this in the wrong forum! Hope this is "legal"!! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/795353/help-needed-sexing-my-various-breeds-pic-heavy Thanks for the help!!
  10. SoCalChicky

    HELP needed sexing my various breeds! (pic HEAVY)

    New to all of this! Bought tons of fertile eggs all hatched either 5/18 or 5/21. BCM and Blue Marans from Indigo Ridge. Thanks Dana! Others from neighbor and Barnavelder breeder. All were hatched in a classroom incu for my boys' kinder class. All except my 2 Orph bought as chicks from...
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    Boys on top level of coop??

    Building a coop from scratch so I have some leeway...and we're doing fertile eggs so I know I have a 50/50 chance of hatching males....so what to do with the boys... Well obviously we could give them away but if we do decide to keep them as broilers I know they'll need to be separated once...
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    Help designing re-purposed playhouse

    This is my old playhouse (sigh)...it is on our acreage (yep, still in same house I grew up in 30 years ago) but needs to be moved to our backyard 100-200 feet away. It obviously needs some TLC and b/c of rotting needs to be somewhat stripped (so why not move it in the process, right?) It has...
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