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  1. Penny Hen

    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    She must have gotten the blue egg gene from her grandfather then. Her color pattern is Black Copper with something diluting the red to gold. Look on the Quetcha thread and you will see several of this color.
  2. Penny Hen

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    Looks like one I had that was a roo. About 5 or 6 weeks About 10 weeks 10 months His neck glows golden in the sunlight. His tail is teal green not beetle green and his wings and body have a purple sheen to the black.
  3. Penny Hen

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    Breed him to a black EE hen and then breed her female offspring back to him. This will recapture the lavender color and strengthen the feathers so you will have lavenders with good feathers.
  4. Penny Hen

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    I think your first one is a roo. The second may be a girl. The comb is smaller and has a lower body posture. It does have dark red but not just on the wing but on the body as well. That could just be a mahogany gene. If it is red caused by being male it will be darker and more intense than the...
  5. Penny Hen

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    Well I am going with girl because of the eyeliner. That is more of a girl thing. Looks like you might have a silver partridge.
  6. Penny Hen

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    Need a better picture. Can't even see the head of the one in the feedpan.
  7. Penny Hen

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    Have you ever played Bridge or Spades? It is and oversimplification but the trump system in the card games is a helpful analogy to how genes work. Spades trump Diamonds which trump Hearts which trump Clubs. When understanding how genes divide up I use Red Rover. Some kids had really strong...
  8. Penny Hen

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    Most have tiny eggs. The James Marie quail lay eggs at bantam chicken size and I'm not talking about the tiny Seramas. Most people who I have been taking to who raise them say they shoot to get their average egg weights to go over 14 oz per dozen. The James Marie is the biggest commercial...
  9. Penny Hen

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    Well that isn't the only time they crow just the scheduled performance. Read a couple of weeks ago a post in the Articles section of how this lady got into chickens. It is a funny article. I believe it is titled "Honey the chickens are turning blue!" She describes her rooster as strutting around...
  10. Penny Hen

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    I know what you mean by the impatient bit. I am adding some James Marie quail in the spring because they start laying eggs at 8 weeks! The males are at butcher weight of near a pound at the same time.
  11. Penny Hen

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    And here I thought it was because my DH's alarm goes off at 3:30am. Rufus won't crow until the alarm goes off (unless I let the dogs out and then he crows at them). I figured he was just competing with the "house rooster" . I am planning on setting mine to come on at 5 pm and shut off at 9pm...
  12. Penny Hen

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    Flourecents pulse very fast, too fast for humans to see but chickens can see it. It is like living on a disco floor with strobe lights all the time. Stresses them out.
  13. Penny Hen

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    This is a good time to go shopping for lights because they will have the Christmas lights out. You can get one of these timer device extention cords that are programable for when you want you Christmas lights to come on and go off. Only you just hook your chicken house to it. We have had ours...
  14. Penny Hen

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    Do you have lights on in the evening extending the "day light" for them? If not then you need to add one to keep light on them till at least 9 pm at night.
  15. Penny Hen

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    Roo. See how you can see the skin at the shoulders. That is the slow feathering gene at work. It only shows up on boys. Good thing is that it is dominant and any of his male offspring will carry it also and let you be able to tell the sex early.
  16. Penny Hen

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    True, if bred with a light brown egg layer it will be green but not olive. For instance if you crossed with a Wellsummer you would get green eggs with dark olive spots. You can also use a Cream Legbar and the Auracana (the rumpless one) instead of an EE or Americana to get the blue egg gene...
  17. Penny Hen

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    You can also soak their pellets in Acidopholus milk. Get over it and force feed him before he dies. When an animal is very sick they can lose their self preservation instincts. I once had to force feed a cat with pneumonia for 3 days on Campbell chicken soup before she perked up enough to eat...
  18. Penny Hen

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    The first is most definitely a pullet. I think the second one is also because the comb while longer is just a single row of bumps. The third is cockrel because of the 3 rows of bumps. I have a friend whose nephew can sex chickens by the width or shapec of the pelvis bones. She says he is 100%...
  19. Penny Hen

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    Well if they are that young then I think it is just that the red hasn't developed fully. I've noticed in mine that their combs will blush with stress or activity. Even the girls can get pretty pink combs if I have had to chase them to catch them.
  20. Penny Hen

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    Your black is a cockerel. Your white/black a pullet, your red and black a pullet. Red is a puzzle the comb hints roo but the tail says pullet. I would go with pullet for now. Check you black roo to make sure that he hasn't picked up mites or some other parasite that can drain his blood supply...
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