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  1. AUChickenGal

    Let’s ID My Meal Maker

    She is developing a little crest. Olive Egger it is, I think!
  2. AUChickenGal

    Let’s ID My Meal Maker

    Oh, I hadn't even thought of that! I had ordered a Wheaten Marans, and unfortunately she died of shipping stress the first night. It would be fantastic if I ended up getting some dark egg genes into the flock anyway!
  3. AUChickenGal

    Let’s ID My Meal Maker

    Almost 4 weeks old update: I’m still completely puzzled. She’s going to keep me in suspense for quite a while, it seems! Her feather pattern reminds me of a darker version of wheaten pullets. She isn’t red like typical red/gold sex link pullets. I generally expect free chicks to be...
  4. AUChickenGal

    Is this feed from 2023 Purina

    Yes, that does look like the lot code for this mill. I’ve not seen any other Purina plant put it in that location, but there it is! This batch would have been made January 16, 2025. That’s getting a bit old, but it is fine to feed as long as it has been kept cool, dry, and away from pests.
  5. AUChickenGal

    Is this feed from 2023 Purina

    Give me about an hour and a half to get my hands on a feed bag, and I will take a photo for you.
  6. AUChickenGal

    Is this feed from 2023 Purina

    No, it won’t be on the tag. It will be on the tape that is used to sew the bag closed. It should be a line of letters and numbers (exact format will depend on which mill location made your feed).
  7. AUChickenGal

    Is this feed from 2023 Purina

    That is the bag code, not the lot code. The lot code, which tells you when the feed (rather than the bag it is in) was made, will be printed on the strip of tape along the bottom of the bag.
  8. AUChickenGal

    Let’s ID My Meal Maker

    Yours looks darker/redder than mine, but Golden Buff is my best guess at the moment.
  9. AUChickenGal

    Let’s ID My Meal Maker

    She's darker than Faverolles usually are and clean legged with no beard. Her chick down has/had a stripe down her back, which I've never seen on a Faverolles. Anything is possible, but I doubt that's what she is. Right now I'm wondering if she might be a Golden Buff? Her color isn't quite...
  10. AUChickenGal

    Let’s ID My Meal Maker

    Updated photos (12 days old): She is the one looking at the camera in the first photo (with a Salmon Faverolles pullet) and in front in the second photo (with a Splash Ameraucana pullet and a Barred Rock pullet).
  11. AUChickenGal

    Let’s ID My Meal Maker

    https://meyerhatchery.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009871752-Day-Old-Chick-Identification
  12. AUChickenGal

    Let’s ID My Meal Maker

    I’m thinking this is going to be one that keeps me in suspense for quite a while, but it’s always fun to play detective. Clean face and legs. I believe she has a single comb. Not sure on leg color yet. I haven’t been able to match her up with any of the photos in the Meyer chick ID list. These...
  13. AUChickenGal

    BYC Valentine's Day Hatch-a-Long

    Well, none of my eggs were viable. Darn it. :( I knew that was a risk this early in the year, but I had to take a chance anyway. I'm glad I at least have 5 Slick daughters/granddaughters to carry on his blood in my flock. Looks like I'll be ordering chicks this year. I sure hope I luck up and...
  14. AUChickenGal

    BYC Valentine's Day Hatch-a-Long

    A day late, but I just set 22 of my barnyard mix Easter Eggers this morning. All of these eggs are from my 2024 F2 pullets, and their consistency is quite remarkable: I wasn't planning on setting eggs this early in the year, but, sadly, my rooster Slick passed away earlier this week. He...
  15. AUChickenGal

    February 2024 Hatch-Along (A time for ♥LOVE♥!!)

    Is there a March hatch-a-long yet? I can’t find one. I just set 22 barnyard mix/possible Easter Egger babies this afternoon.
  16. AUChickenGal

    Getting baby pullets two separate dates.

    I routinely put multiple groups of chicks together, with as much as a six week spread in ages, with no issues at all. I even have an adorable photo somewhere from last year of a six week old Bielefelder pullet "brooding" her new day old friends happily. However, my brooder is also a lot larger...
  17. AUChickenGal

    OE a little insane?

    :lol: I have a guinea I acquired the same way. I hate the stupid bird - it is obsessed with the window screens on my house and has ripped giant holes in ALL of them.
  18. AUChickenGal

    Speckled Sussex Cross Chicks Showing Mottling?

    Thanks, both of you!
  19. AUChickenGal

    Speckled Sussex Cross Chicks Showing Mottling?

    These chicks have to be split for mottling, but it’s hard to remember that when you’re looking at two of them. I’m assuming the mottling will molt out of their feathers eventually? Has anyone else experienced this before? Here are their parents: The rooster is half Ameraucana (purebred...
  20. AUChickenGal

    Plymouth white rocks + Buff Orpington= Barred rocks?

    Are you talking about the wing feathers? If so, that’s not barring. Chicks of many colors get that kind of patterning in their first feathers. It molts out when the next set grows in. I assume it’s a kind of baby camouflage to help protect them from predators while they’re so small and vulnerable.
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