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    Help with Faverolle sexing and temperament?

    Some of my most skittish, panicky birds are my young Easter Eggers and Dominiques. By the time they hit maturity they are all calm and confident. I wouldn't worry too much about their nervousness at this age, just interact gently and consistently and they will come around.
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    Help with Faverolle sexing and temperament?

    Any hatchery Faverolles pullet I have had has initially feathered in very muddy and black. After the juvenile molt, I have never had them retain any more than a few black feathers in their wing tips, and most wind up without any black.
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    The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

    I set my eggs! 35 chicken eggs total. 10 EE/OE/Favaucana type mutt eggs and 25 Orpington eggs.
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    The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

    Mine like to wait until the temperature is pretty steadily 110-118 degrees outside to try to go broody.
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    The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

    Love the broodies! I am stuck with the incubator though. No hens volunteered.
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    California - Northern

    I am in Glenn Co. With gas pricesnit isn't worth your time to travel very far to make a sale, so I was hoping maybe you'd have some reason to be closer. I am wondering how far I can convince my husband to travel for roosters. How much are you asking for the Polish and the Orps? I have a cuckoo...
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    California - Northern

    You aren't planning any trips further north any time soon are you?
  8. SpringPeeper

    TSC Blue Chick Breed?

    I don't believe my TSC stocks chicks from private breeders, though. Only from the hatchery.
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    TSC Blue Chick Breed?

    I have BBS Australorps in the incubator now. I would be surprised to find those at TSC but I suppose it is possible.
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    TSC Blue Chick Breed?

    I definitely go to other sources when breed is important, but I was curious about the chick and the doms are just pets, not for breeding or anything. I have Dominiques from a few hatcheries and no matter what the type is they all seem to have the Dominique tenacity and curiosity I like...
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    TSC Blue Chick Breed?

    Tractor Supply Company had this for sale as a Dominique. It was the only blue chick they had. I knew it wasn't a Dominique but bought it mainly out of curiosity. I asked the clerk (who from past conversations I know keeps some chickens and has some knowledge) and she said the only blue birds she...
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    California - Northern

    Gorgeous chocolates and Polish!
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    What Breed?

    He seems to have legs/feet more slender than a Cornish X would, from the bit I can see.
  14. SpringPeeper

    Ameraucana Rooster or Hen?

    Many of my hens have spur buds or nubs. A few have had actual spurs. You can't tell sex by the bumps.
  15. SpringPeeper

    What Breed?

    My TSC gets in a mixture of RIR and RIW (Rhode Island White, but not APA standard because they are straight comb). It could be that. Most people see Rhode Island and automatically think red.
  16. SpringPeeper

    California - Northern

    I have one early bird Australorp that has decided to pip dead center of the egg. Auugh! None of the others have even pipped internally yet. I hate when they don't pip by the book, it makes me nervous.
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    BLUE, BLACK, AND SPLASH AUSTRALORP EGGS, RATTLESNAKE RIDGE LINE, PM FOR AVAILIBILITY.

    I bought a dozen of these. They were shipped 2000 miles in variable temps and a post office screw up delayed their arrival from Thursday until Monday. They all made it intact and I have 8 eggs developing right on track. With everything those poor eggs had to go through to get to me, I am very...
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    The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

    Crap, getting to be the time where I actually have to pick what I am going to put into the incubator!
  19. SpringPeeper

    California - Northern

    Welcome to chickens! Black Australorps are some of the absolute best chickens around, in my opinion, and are gorgeous with thier sheen-covered black plumage.
  20. SpringPeeper

    The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

    My 6 and 3 yr olds are begging to incubate some eggs, that's all the excuse I need to join again! I did great my first year and belly-flopped on last year's HAL, hoping to be back to good hatching. I had a really unlucky 2016 chicken-wise, the year of the rooster should treat me better! At any...
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