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MrsBachbach said:
Something lacking in the hens diet  can sometimes cause this.  Give the bird a multivitamin/mineral supplement and it could straighten out with time.  Sometimes, crooked toes are hereditary, sometimes it's a nutritional matter.
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Thanks very much! I've had them on vitamins and electrolytes since they arrived!
1 pullet out of 7....is that what they call beginners "bad" luck? I'm definitely disappointed but I understand that's all a part of it but da*m!! Lol. I thought surely I would get more females than 1...
 
MrsBachbach said:
I'm pretty sure you have a male.  I raise these and males are dark like yours.  It is funny though it's acting like a mom.  Funny in a cute way.  I wouldn't expect that to last.
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Yeah, that's what had me so convinced it was a pullet...seemed very uncharacteristic of a roo to be all motherly like that. But now, the more I look at "her", the more I see a "him", lol. I'm so disappointed, such a beautiful bird....
 
So....I took a good, long, hard look at "Rowena", and there seems to be three rows in his comb. The two side ones are just barely visible, but I'm pretty darn sure they're there. Isn't that a purely male characteristic, the three-rowed comb? If so, I think it's time for me to admit, she's a he....
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FreedomFarm13 said:
So....I took a good, long, hard look at "Rowena", and there seems to be three rows in his comb. The two side ones are just barely visible, but I'm pretty darn sure they're there. Isn't that a purely male characteristic, the three-rowed comb? If so, I think it's time for me to admit, she's a he....
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No, only that the full three rows show up way sooner on males than on females.
 
dgibson0604 said:
Hey guys i have 3 Amerucana eggs in my egg turner and a breaker blew the other day for a couple of hours do you think that will affect them hatching
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Depends on ambient temperature where your incubator is. If the core temperature of the eggs didn't drop below 96, you're probably ok. If the incubator is outside and the ambient temperature was cold, then the core temperature of those eggs probably dropped below 96. If the incubator is inside your house, or in an insulated, heated building, then you could be fine.

What was the temperature in the incubator when the power came back on? Do you know how low it got inside the incubator?
 

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