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    Selecting for autosexing ability based on chick color

    I had a group of Legbar chicks I got form a hatchery. I know some Legbar strains have lost their accurate autosexing characteristics and this strain seems to have. I had a few very distinct females, one very distinct male, and a lot of very male looking females. I sold off the females that...
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    Diagnose my heartbreaking incubation/hatching problem(s)

    I opened them occasionally if the humidity seemed too high, but the directions say to keep them closed unless you are above 6000 feet in elevation, so mostly they were closed. I kept them closed during lockdown to keep the humidity high. (The directions say can open one after hatch if the chicks...
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    Diagnose my heartbreaking incubation/hatching problem(s)

    Right now I am trying to keep the humidity lower, like 20/25% since it seems to be a more likely the humidity was too high than too low. I am doing that by keeping one of the vent holes open and a small amount of water in the well. I think I may get some sponges and see if I can get a more...
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    Diagnose my heartbreaking incubation/hatching problem(s)

    So how can I tell if it is sticky chicks from too much humidity versus shrink wrapped chicks who dried down too much from too little humidity? I had to help the chicks out, which sounds like shrink-wrapped. But they were sticky, at least sticky in the way that mostly dry glue is sticky (and on...
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    Diagnose my heartbreaking incubation/hatching problem(s)

    It's hard to say for sure on pre-lockdown humidity. Prior to lockdown they all shared the same incubators but we're at different stages of incubation. I think probabaly ranged from about 15%- 45% most the time. I've been having a hard time keeping humidity constant. In the Hovabators it's hard...
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    Diagnose my heartbreaking incubation/hatching problem(s)

    Thanks! I've looked at a bunch of those troubleshooting charts, but they all give so many options of what could be wrong I can't figure out which one is right. And regarding sticky chic, yes I wondered that, but it also seems like they they got stuck in the shell was more like chicks that had...
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    Diagnose my heartbreaking incubation/hatching problem(s)

    I wanted to add that all the eggs were incubated together in two Hovabators, and were put for lockdown in a Brinsea mini and the last hatch was in one of the Hovabators. Also, I had been using a candy thermometer I had tested in ice water earlier in the incubation. Later on I tested it against a...
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    Diagnose my heartbreaking incubation/hatching problem(s)

    I have had the most heartbreaking hatches lately. They are all with shipped eggs and unfortunately I don't have any non-shipped eggs to compare them too as we just recently moved to the country and my only adult chickens are older hens (though I did just get a couple trios of birds so I may be...
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    A Saga of Thermometers, Or: What Thermometer is Best?

    Thanks! How did you order them? I don't see a way to do it online?
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    Can a chick's legs change color?

    Well I'm hoping they change... Right now they look pretty much straight up pink. I can't remember with my now grown Nankin what color her legs started out as. But the Brabanters and EEs already have grey/green legs...
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    Can a chick's legs change color?

    A couple years ago I got a Nankin bantam in an assortment from Ideal. I really like her and thought she was decent quality for a hatchery, as she wasn't too light colored and had blue(ish) legs. Now that I am in the country I wanted to breed Nankins but wasn't able to find anyone near with some...
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    A Saga of Thermometers, Or: What Thermometer is Best?

    And to further confound things I just compared my cooking/cand/meat Thermometer with the medical thermometer in warm water (just over 100 degrees) they were 2 degrees apart. And then I took my temp with the medical on is said 97.8... Urg
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    A Saga of Thermometers, Or: What Thermometer is Best?

    What thermometer are you all using? I am so frustrated with lack of good thermometers I can trust right now! First I was using an IncuTherm which I tested against a good digital candy/meat thermometer (which I had tested both in ice water and in boiling water). Then I thought my incubator went...
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    Recessive Silver gene in ducks?

    Yeah, I went back and changed it to clarify. You are right that Mallards and Harlequins are completely different breeds. But I think the color Snowy in Mallards is the same as the normal silver phase Harlequin color. I might be wrong, but I thought I read that somewhere
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    Recessive Silver gene in ducks?

    Because if it was the two copies (homozygous) of the blue gene it would produce 100% heterozygous blue type mallards when bred to wild type, since blue is an incomplete dominant. But he said all the babies were wild type indicating it is a recessive gene, rather than a dominant gene.
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    Recessive Silver gene in ducks?

    Aren't Snowy Mallards the same *COLOR* genetically as Silver phase Welsh Harlequins? (Edited to add the word COLOR for clarification.)
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    Recessive Silver gene in ducks?

    There got them added correctly!
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    Recessive Silver gene in ducks?

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    Recessive Silver gene in ducks?

    Has anyone ever heard of a recessive silver gene in ducks that works that same way as said genes in Wood ducks or Mandarins? I found someone who has ducks he calls "Silver Mallards" But they are not what most people mean when they say that, I don't think. I will include pictures below. I...
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    Campines, Deathlayers, Frisian Gulls, Queen Silvias, and Hamburgs, Oh My!

    Hello, I love the penciled look that can be found in all these breeds, but I'm curious to hear from those who keep these breeds on any major differences between them (besides the obvious, like comb type)... Are they pretty comparable to each other in egg laying? Specifically, I'm curious about...
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