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We are doing an early prediction based on behavior... Roo. We shall see!
What breed is the chick?

With Wheaten chicks you can tell by the color of the wing feathers and the feathers are dark on this cutey. The legs are big and it looks like the tail feathers are missing or too short.

My guess is cockerel too.
 
How do you decrow a rooster? I just read an add that was offering a 'quiet decrowed' rooster? Hmmm
It is an operation under anesthesia. it it hard on the Rooster and many do not live through the procedure.

One person sells decrowed roosters but will not de crow them for you.
 
Hi everyone! I've tried to catch up on the goings on but I'm still a week behind BUT, we just got back from a week in Fort Bragg and my mom was collecting eggs for me so I opened the cartons to check the eggs and imagine my surprise when I found THIS!

My very first egg from my very first Olive Egger! I was just looking at her this morning and didn't think she was red enough yet. I asked her when she was going to lay her first egg....she was probably wondering why I wasn't congratulating her! She's a beautiful Blue Marans/Silver Ameraucana. I'm SO happy with her color! My Blue Marans are Wade Jean I got from Papa Brooder. I had so much trouble getting here. I bought six and they had black mold and lost half of them within the first few weeks but ended up with 2 blue pullets and one beautiful blue cockerel. When they were finally able to join the flock the cockerel went missing one day so I ended up with just the two blue pullets. They lay a nicely dark egg for blue's. I am pleasantly surprised at the darkness of this egg coming from blue Marans.

Here's a little line up but the colors didn't come out very well. I also was treated to a couple of the fart eggs from the Polish pen. I've rarely been gifted with these tiny eggs so two within a few weeks is a treat but now I'm wondering who's doing it and why twice. Should I be worried or feel blessed?


Here's some pictures of the 4 month old Black Copper Marans cockerels from the extremely dark eggs I got from Deb and Sunny. They are really beautiful, sorry for the fuzzy pictures, they're quick little buggers! Anyway, I picked out the one I'm keeping and I think I have five for sale. If anyone is interested PM me. I also have a really nice baby that's about 9 weeks from my roo from Deb Black Copper Marans and one of the Blue Copper Marans .



Here's the eggs they came from...


Miss everyone....been really busy hauling kegs of beer and bottles of wine to our farmers market and Party in the Park. Now I'll go back and try to catch up...better then unpacking from a weeks vacation right?


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Oh my gosh! the BCM's and their eggs are AMAZING! I have a BCM of Deb's too and I can't WAIT to see her "all growed up" and laying. I think she's a little younger though because her copper isn't in much yet.
 
Anyone up for some more chicken portraits? I let the flock out in the back yard yesterday to get their minds off of the humid heat and double smoke.
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Here's most of the gang. You can see how smokey it is over the lake... bleck!
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Brawny the Orpington. Little Ellie (bottom left) is TINY and Brawny is HUGE!



Hershey, our BCM from Deb.




 
I think my Amelia pullets are about to molt. The egg color has gotten a lot lighter this week.

These are from last week. I have two Marans X EE(From Chiqita, Whom does not breed AMs
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) Those are bigger and smoother. I love the one on the far right with the crazy speckles. That is an Amelia egg.

Those are so pretty!! I just keep gazing at the beautiful olive colors
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