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[Jenlyn9483]

looks cochin-ness to me.

 

[swtbtrcup]

He looks like a cochin to me.

 

[itsiebitsiefarm]

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[WestKnollAmy]

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His head looks Marans, his butt and legs look Cochin.

 

[tay_boe]

Maybe they wanted to improve the feathering on the legs so they threy a Cochin in the pen? Just guessing tho.

 

[meepitqueenie]

received one of my mystery swaps today.
from wadsworth ohio

here is the note

eggs

hmm EE's, bantam eggs i think, and some quail....

the cats were doing some inspection of the packing materials....

hubby was oh no whats those tiny eggs...i'm like they look like quail to me....

these are my first quail so do they eat chick starter???

 

[CapricornFarm]

Gamebird feed or unmedicated chick starter. You need to keep quail separate from chickens

 

[pbjmaker]

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You're supposed to keep pheasants seperate also, but I have a pheasant chick who lives with a silkie chick and they are best buds. Of course they live inside where neither of them have been exposed to chicken diseases.

I need to boot them out (they are 6 weeks old) but I can't put this single pheasant in with my 11 week old pheasants nor can I let him free range or live alone. It's a quandry.

Back to the swap:

Looks like maybe 4 eggs are developing of mine...

 

[renegaderidgefarm]

Those are coturnix quail eggs and I feed mine whatever the chicks are eating. I try to keep the medicated feed away from the bobwhite but it doesn't seem to bother the coturnix. Most of the time, I keep them separated from the chicks but I had one hatch from a swap that is living with the chicks at the moment. Its outgrowing the chicks but doing find.


As for my mystery roo here is the story about him. . . . I received some maran eggs in a swap and had 5 to hatch. 4 of them were clean leg and this one had feathers on his legs. At the time, I didn't know there was a feather legged maran so I thought that I had gotten one of my cochins mixed up with the maran chicks even though I was real careful to keep them separate. I sold the maran chicks - oh my! I just remembered that they weren't marans - they were olive eggers!! What is that? Maran - Easter Egger cross? Anyway, I kept this roo thinking it was a cochin but he's taller and slimmer than my cochin roos. I don't plan to keep him but wanted to know what he was before I sold him.

 

[dragontamer56]

Just got my eggs form whrenshall, MN. They look real nice and aren't cracked at all.