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Hahaha DC... If I find trouble being anounced by my wolfies and guard roosters..late at night, I'm likely as not to greet the intruder with my 38 special....or whatever else I can get my hands on easy. The other night coons were running amok....so much commotion from wolfies and...

My wolfies keep me abreast of anything out of sorts...a cat or even a roadrunner ...when anyone or anything comes and steps on even the back far end of the 26 acres they let me know...not many uninvited wish to continue after that...even bear no longer come near our property...which makes our...

I just found this...it may be helpful...worth a look...see if anything her works or can be compared with later behaviors not only of Smithies...but other fm breeds or landraces too http://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/chick-sexing-techniques/

I'm curious now DC with the mentioning the fast feathering gene, as well as not seeing this in the AC's, since 'Smithies' are reported to have a dash of Leghorn perhaps they do have the fast feather growing gene? Also wondering if you've ever experimented by looking at two, three, four day old...

Chooks4life haha might have something there ...who knows someone out there might already be working on this as a project fm bird...not me of course...but perhaps someone will do this to say " see, the blackness even goes into their eggs" You never know what 'floats your boat' for some...guess...

They must have somehow gotten Cayuga Duck, eggs mixed into a batch of chicken eggs. .either they are very confused or trying to deceive. I'd been determined to get a breeding pair of Cayugas...black from top to bottom with intense green metalic...and great layers of black eggs...though as...

Are fm traits either dominant homozygous needing both parents to carry or with is it possible with one expressing fully, can one parent have fm in its recent ancestry but not display there is hidden fm, till bred with the homozygous fm bird, to find the chicks from this breeding larger, more...

DC can you tell us more about how these two are developing ? What I'd like to know is are their bodies so far about the size and build of your Svart Honas' and/or Ayam Cemani's at the same age? Do you see anything notable other than fm and coloring for difference from your other two fm breeds...

enola did that cornish x with your ugly silkie come out with a meaty carcass? Your story is similar to mine...I got some South American shipped eggs which have fibro and did get a very dark fm pullet but since I was at that time using a still air incubator and new to it as well as incubating I...

Did I do something wrong or break rules? Very very sorry if I did...I pm..ed you ...hope to hear back

DCchickens what can I say? Wow!!! I'm trying so hard by myself to make a lg black meat bird, there isnt any way i could afford what is being asked for Ayam Cemani or...Svart Hona...... Can I be on a list for your eggs? Health reasons was a huge part in my fervently going on my own...family...