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    Show off your roosters

    Buff Orpington x Rhode Island Red
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    Buff Orpington cross

    I had Buff Orpington roosters with hens of various breeds including BO, Australorp, Black Minorca, New Hampshire, Rhode Island Red, Amber Star. Hatched out 2 broods under broody hens. This resulting rooster is I believe a BO x RIR The pullets have started laying and are really doing good.
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    Egg laying/molting timing.

    Thanks, for the response. I figured they probably wouldn’t. When I’ve bought pullet chicks early like March and April, I’ve had good success with them laying by the fall, but since my broody hens didn’t set till later, it didn’t work out for this winter.
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    Egg laying/molting timing.

    I have some pullets that were hatched from two different settings the last of May 24 and early June 24. They have not started to lay yet. My thinking is that they were too young to start laying before the decreased daylight, and will likely start when the daylight gets longer towards spring. My...
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    Male or female?

    These are around 13 weeks old. I identified 3 young roosters and thought this was probably a later maturing rooster, but now I’m not so sure. Some of other roosters were already starting to crow a couple weeks ago, and had a little more comb and wattle development. This one had more comb and...
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    Eggs hatched today under broody hen

    New Hampshire hen went broody and I put 15 eggs under her. So far today looks like 12-13 have hatched. That’s probably all that will hatch. The roosters were Buff Orpington and hens were a variety of breeds, Amber Stars, New Hampshire, Buff Orpington, Black Minorca, Rhode Island Red, and Black...
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    Debate! Hybrids or heritage chickens?

    Depends on what you want. Crossbred layers like ISA Brownor Amber Link are great dependable layers but will not hold up as long. To me if I were very limited in number of birds I could have. I would go with a commercial type crossbred layer or production type Rhode Island Reds. That way the...
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    Best Chicken Breeds to Breed for Selling?

    I agree with what NatJ said in the post above. Having a breed or breed s that the big hatcheries don’t have, or have limited numbers of them, could be beneficial to set you apart. Breeds like. Black Copper Marans, several have those but they seem to sell out fairly fast. Penedeseca ( probably...
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    Resulting color?

    Have 2 hens setting and several of the eggs are by white Amber Star hens, ghe roosters are Buff Orpingtons. In the past I’ve had some white leghorn hens with a Barred Rock rooster and the resulting chicks were pretty much white like the leghorn hens with maybe a random grey or black spot but...
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    Breeds for tiny flocks?

    Honestly about any hens from mainstream chicken breeds would probably be ok. We are in KY, probably somewhat similar weather to MO. I prefer standard clean legged varieties. Orpingtons, Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, New Hampshire, Australorp are all dependable breeds with sone of those...
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    Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!

    Howdy folks, been busy with other stuff around the farm and ain’t been on here for quite while. Cattle are our main focus, still have chickens, too many chickens but I’ve never been good with math and apparently even worse with chicken math. Anyways not much new on the chicken front until...
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    Broodies a broodin

    Have two hens sitting in eggs. A New Hampshire and a Buff Orpington. 15 eggs under the New Hampshire, and 14 under the Orpington. The roosters are Buff Orpington and Hens are mainly New Hampshire, Amber Star and Buff Orpington, with a few being Rhode Island Red, Black Minorca and Black...
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    Question about rabbits?

    We currently have a pair of New Zealand White rabbits and a litter of their babies. The plan is to keep a doe from that litter and bring in another male. We are wanting to add some color by bringing in a different male. What would the color patterns be from a white doe and black male? Would...
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    5 week olds from Murray McMurray Hatchery

    Chicks are now 5 weeks, and moved out of the stock tank with heat lamp into an outside coop. Black Minorca pullets Amber Star pullets Rhode Island Red pullets Buff Orpington pullets and males Beilefelder male
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    What age to put chicks outside with no heat?

    Yes that is the stage these are at now, bodies are feathered and heads are beginning to be.
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    What age to put chicks outside with no heat?

    Thank you.
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    What age to put chicks outside with no heat?

    Our chicks are just short of 5 weeks old, its mid 80’s to 90 highs and around 60 for lows at night. Would it be ok to go ahead and move them, 25 chicks to an outside coop?
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    10 week old Rhode Island reds...

    They look like pullets to me .
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    Black Australorps 16 weeks

    They are all pullets. At that age roosters would have significantly larger red comb and wattles
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    Where can I Buy This New Chicken Breed?

    Not familiar with that chicken breed. The term Holstein Frieshian is the name of the Holstein breed of cattle that most people all people just call Holstein. Then as already mentioned there are Friesian Horses too. Not sure but may even be Friesian sheep. My guess is that there is either a...
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