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  1. Disheygirl

    New Fibro Test - Participants Needed

    i used this test on two of my Hmong. One was fm/n and the other fm/fm. Both were fibro I would have never known about the N if I hadn’t tested. So cool!
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    Roo new to hens

    Thanks all! My other roo (who was also my first) just kind of grew up a good boy and while he’s also young, never behaved like this. I have a few older hens but they’re all sweet and not fighters. Sounds like he’s going to be a bachelor for a while!
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    Roo new to hens

    I have an eight month roo who needs some ladies. But when I put a few in with him, he gets very rough and just jumps on them. No courting, no dancing, just jumps on while they screech and then run away and he chases them. My other roo (different run, a month older) is the opposite. Is there a...
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    Frostbite vent

    He’s currently in the garage at 38 degrees with two girls and crowing nonstop. It’s five degrees out. I need to move out of the Midwest - it’s like the arctic this year.
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    Frostbite vent

    I put he and two others in the garage tonight - it’s 30 degrees so more manageable than -3. This is from earlier this evening and when I took them in the garage, his wattles seemed to have some too. I have Meloxicam if it seems to bother him - I’m sure it doesn’t feel great. 😢
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    Frostbite vent

    It’s that time of year… Our temps got into -2 and my roo’s comb tips are turning black. I don’t use Vaseline, their coop is draft free and has a ventilation fan and their run is wrapped + covered. No water in the coop either. My flock is a big group of three and four year olds and five under a...
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    Genetics for Fibro and Blue Egg

    He’s a Hmong. If I put him over a Silverudd Blue, then fibro offspring but brown egg? Thank you for the overview - better than even ChatGPT! I have another Hmong who is fibro but tested fm/N (pic attached - gold guy) - I would have thought he was fm/fm too. I hatched three Hmong eggs hoping...
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    Pullet or cockerel - Hmong chick!

    I had two of mine tested for the fibro gene. One is fm/fm but the other was fm/N. So I’d be careful with what you use for breeding with SFF offspring because the N gene means 50% of offspring will not be fibro. The gold boy has the N.
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    Genetics for Fibro and Blue Egg

    I have an fm/fm roo - if I put him over a hen with O/O for blue egg, would the offspring be a fibro blue layer?
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    Hmongs

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    Cockerel Broke Part of Beak

    Cockerel hatched in June, three years of chickens and this has never happened. I went out to the run today and his beak was like this. Have a vet appt tomorrow but is there anything I can do for him this evening? I have meloxicam but I don’t know if I want to try and get it in his mouth safely...
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    Treatment?

    Three year old BCM, had a light molt (can still see her neck feathers coming in). All flock, free choice eggshell, dried bugs (black fly larvae), and snacks here and there - organic veggies. I let them out in the yard when I’m with them for a few hrs on weekends and 30 mins weekdays. Yesterday...
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    Hmong Cockerels - Indianapolis, IN

    Add’l pics.
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    Hmong Cockerels - Indianapolis, IN

    Three boys, not integrated with my main flock, purchased as eggs from Sugar Feather Farms. All good boys, one has attempted a crow, none show aggression to humans (all seem pretty timid so they’ll probably run away from hens at first too). Not for food. Hatched July 4.
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    Hmong Cockerels

    Ohhh he’s a pretty (handsome!) guy!!
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    Fine to gone in less than a day

    I need to suck it up and send her to Purdue for necropsy but wondering if this sounds familiar in the interim. Flock of 18, all originally from NPIP hatcheries (if that matters). No exposure to new or random chickens. On organic all flock, choice eggshell, choice grit, treats are black fly...
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    Hmong Cockerels

    Not yet - i know the fibro confirmation is a blood test but since the breed is landrace (and probably quite the mix since they hit the US), I’m sure there are all sorts of mutts. I guess a cat can have kittens of all different colors so same would apply here. Genetics are wild. I’m just curious...
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    Hmong Cockerels

    I have three cockerels that I hatched this summer. A completely new breed as my others are all ‘mainstream’ hatchery birds. It’s been fun watching them grow and feather - they’re three best friends but one of them looks like the UPS man’s son. Nothing like the other two, from the tail to the...
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    Fibromelanosis

    I hatched three Hmong eggs and got three little boys (lucky me!). I’d like to find two of them good homes and I’m wondering if I should get them tested for the fibro gene as a way to get them into homes faster). Is it worth it? I know zero about genetics, have done some research online but is...
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    Recent Alchemist Farms Experience?

    Another of the splash. She has blue legs but I don’t breed them / bought them as pets. Her egg is the speckled green third from top.
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