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Just got a 5 m.o. Olive Egger roo, but no idea what breeds are in his makeup. (He was an incorrectly sexed pullet, so his owners had no idea what went into their chick that they purchased.) He has a single comb, yellow legs, overall color is a silvery gray with cream tones on the neck feathers...

$30/12+ eggs, includes shipping USPS Priority Flat Rate box. I have 8 assorted hens providing eggs for purebred FBCM, F1 blue-feathered olive eggers (BCM roo x splash cuckoo bluebar)[pictured cross], and those F1 olive eggers bred to a BCM roo for kalamata eggers (chicks will hatch out either...

This chick hatched out with all the markings of a femme Welsummer (heavy eyeliner, sharp chipmunking), but now at 4.5 weeks looks not like the other Wellie chicks. A bit darker chest and larger comb. Roo; right?

4.5 weeks old Welsummer x EE cross. Boy? Girl? Too early to tell?

This chick came out of a batch of purebred Marans. The flock is of assorted colors (FBCM, Birchen, white, and more) all running together for the winter. I'm not well-versed in Marans genetics, so am curious if somebody knows what color crosses would produce a decidedly brown chick.... And...

Big puzzle in the nest box today. I have an OE who laid her egg at the roost (normal for her, she sometimes lays at night). Then the only EE went into the nest box. When I went back later to get eggs there were TWO of hers! One was normal-sized, but the second one was a bit larger and a...

Hatched on Feb 19th (4 weeks old) White Marans. Looks like a roo, yes?

This bird is 2 months old, hatched New Year's Day. Came out of a brown farmers market egg.... Araucana or Ameraucana x RIR? Slightly green legs, no color to the comb, single comb with slight zag to it, no discernible (to me) pointy hackle or saddle feathers, no wattles. The stature and...

This particular hen started to get a little mothy looking when she started laying.... At first I thought it might be because the other birds were really picking on her while she was on the nest (she was the first to lay), actively pulling her feathers. Now I'm not so sure as it has spread on...

Got some BLRW eggs from eBay. This cute chick hatched out last night. My question is, though, do BLRW have feathered legs?

Hatched from a Trader Joe's egg and six weeks old today. Guess on gender and breed?

This was Pat at 5 weeks old Many of you guessed pullet. Pat is a Marans x Marans/CCL mix This is Pat today at 9 weeks old (very, very pale pink comb) Still a pullet?

Hatched Aug 31 (so 5-6 weeks ago), Pat is an OE (FBCM x OE [FBCM x CCL]) that's 1/4 CCL and 3/4 Marans. Boy? Girl? Too soon to tell? Wait until Pat crows or lays?

This one hatched out with neither chipmunk markings nor a clear head spot. It's brother was yellow/grey with a definite head spot. This one is more orange. Any ideas? Boy? Girl? A wait-and-see?

I'm setting about 40 eggs tomorrow. Is anybody else getting ready for an end-of-the-month hatch? Want to join in? Eggs are: Welsummers, Cinnamon Queens (RSL) and Olive Eggers (FBCMxLegbar) Incubator is an ancient beat-up 30 y.o. Miller styrofoam box which still functions adequately...

Just curious as a thought popped into my head. I know when you worm the flock you're not supposed to consume the eggs for a period thereafter, but can you incubate and hatch them? Has anyone done this? Do the chicks end up deformed or defective?

Here's a Holy Grail quest if ever there was one. I'm looking for *true* Cinnamon Queens, a New Hampshire roo x SLW hen. The big hatcheries advertise CQ's, but they are not true CQ's. Cackle has red x white birds they're selling as CQ's and when I inquired at Purely Poultry as to what the...

It is Day 7 and I candled my SLW and Star eggs which arrived via USPS from two different sources. On a handful of eggs the little embryo was right up there with a big dark eye bouncing around. A few clear eggs and then about a dozen that I couldn't tell anything about....not clear, but not...

I live in Henderson, NV, with very stringent HOA CC&R's. Amazingly, the Board has given approval of keeping "pet" chickens (and we're talking all of three hens here, folks) provided I can prove they aren't a nuisance. Easy to do... The coop plans submitted are the best looking shed in the...

The 2010 "Old Farmer's Almanac" (Page 230) suggests that chicks hatched during the period of a waxing moon under the fruitful Moon signs of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are healthier and mature faster. This year's optimal hatching dates to shoot for (so count backwards 21 calendar days for egg...