overall these look healthy and they look like Marans. The black copper ones have a bit of an extra fluffy cushion giving them a more u shaped back instead of a wide flat back, but that is definately not unusable and can be worked with.Tail angles on black copper pullet 2 and 3 seem rather high...
This legbar hidden behind the haystack. I was sure all the chicks would be olive eggers, but for some reason, all the chicks are definitely purebred. There is one splash and one blue silver marans chock, from whatever blue or splash hen decided to add to his sneaky legbar lady's nest.
I am glad the blue silver cockerel is looking mighty fine. His silver is staying nice. If there is anywhere for the silver to be iffy, it's the wing bows on the blue silver cock birds.
oooo maybe an appenzeller spitzhaben, but that girl Gingernut really does look like an isa brown, just a wild puzzle.
Generally, you get a lot of body type from the dam side, and she looks like a pretty typical brown hen. I still lean towards the legbar mother, just based on that. Just where...
Perhaps Gingernut has some legbar parentage. It seems a long shot though, I just don't see how that pullet has no blue. If Gingernut is a cross, could explain some things, but not the lack of blue. A splash will always throw blue or splash chicks. The pattern should be a blue lacing, and it...
This rooster does appear to be a splash, probably one that would have black copper parentage, but there is something else going on with him. The biggest quandary is that your pullet appears to have no blue in the posted pictures. Is the lighting different? Also, if he were simply a blue splash...
This wholly depends on what the sire is hiding under the splash. Splash is 2 blue genes. Of course, with such a cross, all the chicks would be blue because the sire would give one blue gene to every chick, but splash is a semi dominant gene and you just don't know what other genes are under...
I have not heard of egg insurance. Then again, Montana is very Laissez-faire about the poultry industry here, and livestock and purchases related to livestock are considered at your own risk, since guarantees are pretty much impossible in real life.
https://blog.meyerhatchery.com/2017/08/wry-neck-in-chickens/
Here is a post about wry neck in chickens, which mostly will translate to turkeys as well. If you are worried about wry neck, and you worry about proper nutrition, you can include some brewer's yeast as an excellent nutrition boost...
Esther Says: I don't think that it looks like wry-neck, he seems to have just had a big meal. Wry-neck is most visible in poults and is usually a result of thiamine deficiency. Sometimes it can be a result of a skeletal deformity. He looks healthy to me. Good luck with him. He looks great.
yeah, we cut the cartoid artery. Our plucker likes attached heads, and the bigger toms tend to flop out of the cones, the bags keep their wings contained and they don't get so messy.
Tape works. I would put them pn the passenger seat floor so you can keep an eye on them. If you molest contain further, you can use a feed sack. Cut a hole in a bottom corner of an empty feed sack, put the head through. Tie the opening closed around the legs. The head sticks out, body is...
The best place to start out is at your local extension office. Each county has their own rules for age, weight, and care parameters when it comes to market animals. In my county, they like to change the rules often, and only accept broad breasted turkeys for market. Be sure to attend any rule...