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Just making sure My eyes don’t deceive me.

Hello all, Please indulge my ignorance and tell me what gender this Silver laced youngster is. It’s about 6 months old. Its mother was a SL Wyandotte. It’s father is half Yokohama, and probably 1/8 Ayam Cemani and 1/8 Sumatra, and 1/4 Phoenix. Thank you!

This is a 2 year old Sumatra. I've been assuming it's a hen, but I've never seen any laying behavior. Then again, some of the feathering is not entirely hen-like, so maybe it's a rooster that doesn't crow and has no interest in breeding hens? What do y'all think?

Something is stealing eggs out of nest boxes that are up to 8 inches deep and could only be reached by climbing straight up a wall for 4 feet or jumping that far from the ground. Whatever’s doing it is leaving nothing behind - no broken shells, no bits of yolk or whites, so the thief must be...

Can lavender feathers have an iridescent sheen, or is it a flat color, like blue is?

This hen volunteered to join my flock. Anyone have any guesses what breed she might be? Game fowl are popular in the area, as well as layers and multipurpose breeds from commercial hatcheries. What color would you call this?

I was following threads about coffee-laced color pattern, and was frustrated because the posters used hobby color names, and no one described what this color was genetically. The best I could determine was that coffee lacing resulted from heterozygous “ginger” or “custard” (I guess that’s BBR...

Books on chicken color genetics I’ve been reading recommend building laced patterns on a brown or birchen base, depending on whether you want concentric pencilling or single lacing. Greenfire’s pics of their silver Barnevelder chicks look like wild type. But are they actually brown...

This is a hatchery Easter Egger Americauna from the feed store that I picked out because her down color was different from her brooder-mates. With her Black diluted to gray and her red diluted to lemony-buff, I wonder if she’s Lavender. Or maybe Blue + Dilute? Every other chick looked like...

There is paperwork involved, unfortunately. The NPIP status needs to be registered with the Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture, a form must be requested, filled out, and sent with the chicks. I'm willing to pay a $50 premium over the cost of the chicks for the paperwork. I'm looking for day old chicks...

I have a cowardly roo who is the first to run if a mongoose stalks him and his hens. Does anyone have suggestions on which of the following breeds might produce a rooster that is gutsy enough to defend his flock, yet minimally aggressive with humans and other roosters? Sumatra Hmong Modern...

Today I lost 3 of my 5 Ayam Cemani to a dog that broke into my elevated coop, barreling right through the hardware cloth that had withstood tropical storms and foiled mongooses. What is the best way to build a dog-proof structure? I'm both heart-sick and enraged about this. The chickens were...