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  1. AusHen

    Wheaten Marans chicks with head stripes

    I purchased a dozen wheaten Marans eggs and had 4 hatch. Two are solid yellow as expected but two have a stripe on their head. The Marans club of Australia where I’m located says “the down of wheaten is essentially clear cream in colour, although small dorsal head spots are common” but these...
  2. AusHen

    Who was your best mama this year?

    Platinum my splash copper Marans. She went broody for the first time at 4 1/2 years old, hatched out 11 chicks and accepted another 3 at the same time then another a week later
  3. AusHen

    Are Satins Really Silkies?

    It's very doubtful any organization will ever accept Satins as a variety of Silkies, given they lack the key feature that makes a Silkie, well a Silkie. They are likely to be stuck in the Silkie project limbo for the foreseeable future.
  4. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I got three, one was a softer shell. I was getting up to 12 a day then the kids offered to help chicken duties while I tended to the gardens more, suddenly I was getting 1-2 eggs. I was thinking they had a secret nest but it turns out they were feeding chick starter instead of my breeder/layer...
  5. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I have a couple of hens who also used those excuses over the past 6 months
  6. AusHen

    Maybe I'm mistaken.

    Ermine is heterozygous dominant white with some other modifiers that distribute the black more evenly, no mottle
  7. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I got an even dozen today
  8. AusHen

    Do all Welsummer hens lay that iconic dark chocolate brown egg or is it just some?

    If they have resumed after a break from molting this is generally when their eggs are the darkest during the season. Unfortunately as mentioned some hatcheries and even breeders don't focus on eggs. I wanted some new blood so ordered from a fellow breeder of good looking birds. The eggs in the...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    14 today. Two are pullets first eggs
  10. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    10 today, then the 2yo proceeded to “help” and broke 3
  11. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    9 eggs today.
  12. AusHen

    Colour & Breeding Question

    OMG your hen is STUNNING!! The rooster looks paint to me. The parents from what's written shouldn't produce splash, but there is always the possibility a white is masking blue/splash or what they call "grey" is blue and not silver partridge. Either way breeding to your hens will reveal the...
  13. AusHen

    1 egg, double egg shell

    That’s amazing. It took me over a decade to get a double yolker but an egg within a egg is like winning a lotto
  14. AusHen

    1 egg, double egg shell

    That one definitely looks like either a double yolker or egg in egg
  15. AusHen

    1 egg, double egg shell

    looks like the blue egg broke and the brown egg slipped in the empty shell. I have had broodies roll eggs into the shells of hatched eggs before
  16. AusHen

    Mystery refrigerated chicken eggs hatch-a-long

    Life got busy and I forgot to update. The chicks are indeed Cornish crosses. They are currently 6 weeks old and thriving. I do plan on processing them but they are currently enjoying life being raised just as I raise my layers and pets
  17. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    2 eggs, both from some of my older hens
  18. AusHen

    Welsumer cockerel?

    Not a pure Welsummer. He looks like he may have a modified pea comb, so he’s most likely out of a Easter egger
  19. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Two today. A Marans and another pullets first egg
  20. AusHen

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    One today, first egg from one of my pullets. Laid outside of the coop
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