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For candling eggs a mini Maglite with the rubber collar on it works well. I use a spotlight and a piece of cardboard with a hole the size of a dime cut in it. Just place the egg on the hole and it can be seen into pretty easily.
 
OkieRidge, I don't know what kind of chick that is but it's adorable! I love the dark red and gray together. Carl hatched for 3 of us this time, I bet he's glad that's over. Thanks, Carl.
I can't believe I actually got an LF Faverolles from my very own birds out of the batch. That's a special one to me, perfectly spaced 5 toes on botd good, Carl.
NoCityBoy, you're still taking male Dark Brahamas, right? This one just feels like a boy when you pick him up, he's solid and the biggest one. So I'm thinking this is one of yours :)
Then the Lavender Ameraucanas-I'm loving all the puffy cheeks and feathered legs in this batch.




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Too cute! - I love feathered feet.

Jack incubated a dozen for me too test various pens I have set up and only 3 hatched. Carl is hatching 2 dozen for me and only 8 were fertile. Not such a good start but a couple of my roos are young and one is old. I have to remember that it is only March. I've got 8 breeding pensand if all of the eggs hatch I could be in trouble!
One of the chicks that hatched at Jack's has pure white down, sure looks strange and at the same time pretty. It already has tiny grey pin feathers. I have a Columbian-looking roowith a little Buff in his hackles and saddle feathers that had white down when he hatched. His parents were a Mille fleur roo and a Black mottled hen. I didn't plan on breeding him because his type isn't that great. This chick may be his since a couple of the test eggs were from my mixed pen.
I have another roo from the Mille Fleur x Mottled pair from last year. This one is is the opposite of his white-downed brother; mostly black with white detaile and buff hackles and saddle frethers. I am breeding this boy because he has much better type that his brother. I should put up some picks of the white down and the opposite brothers. Breeding sure gets interesting.
 
Its been a huge collective effort but as of today I have eggs in all the trays of my big incubator. It will get real interesting in a few weeks when I hatch off three incubator trays with a total of 19 different matings in the hatcher. I will at least free up one tray on sunday when they move to the hatcher but it still seems odd to see my board full of dates next to trays.
 
Does anyone have guinea hatching eggs? I have a friend at work who is looking for a couple dozen maybe more. He is from the Tahlequah area.
 
Speaking cougars...

Just got the following email from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.


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March 22, 2012
A service of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation


Genetic analysis from "Minco mountain lion" confirms ties to South Dakota
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation recently confirmed origins of the mountain lion struck and killed by a motorist in November 2011 near Minco.
According to Erik Bartholomew, furbearer biologist for the Wildlife Department, the 130-lb. male mountain lion that was found dead along HWY 81 north of Minco is closely tied genetically to populations in the Black Hills of South Dakota. DNA analyses performed on tissue collected from the cat also confirm it was a wild mountain lion and not an escaped domestic animal.
"The cat's DNA shows a very close genetic relationship to wild populations in South Dakota," Bartholomew said. "We can say with a high level of confidence that this male was born in the Black Hills region. Another clue that this animal was wild is the fact that it had porcupine quills in its stomach. Apparently mountain lions consider them to be good eating, or maybe they are easy to catch, but many times western states report mountain lions with porcupine quills in their front legs and digestive tract."
A small tooth from the mountain lion's upper jaw also was sent to a lab for aging. Much like the rings on a tree, the root portion of the tooth has rings that can be used by experts to age the animal. The tooth from the "Minco mountain lion" showed that the animal was at least three years old.
"We have no idea of the path he used to get to Oklahoma," Bartholomew said. "However, with him being killed near the South Canadian, he likely was following the river where their primary prey - white-tailed deer - would be in high abundance. Males tend to have very large home ranges at or over 200 square miles. The Black Hills is a small island of habitat, and many times adult males will get in territorial disputes with young males and the loser leaves in search of new territory."
This mountain lion represents a unique research opportunity for the Department since the animals are secretive and because biologists have had few other opportunities to study them up close in Oklahoma.
Other wild mountain lions documented in Oklahoma also have tested positive for Black Hills origins, such as the female captured in the city limits of Tulsa last year and another believed to have been killed by a train in 2004 near Red Rock. A male mountain lion that was shot in 2010 in the Panhandle by a Department of Agriculture employee while depredating livestock tested positive for genetic ties to populations in eastern Colorado, and another confiscated by the Department's law enforcement division in southeast Oklahoma was genetically tied to populations in the Pine Ridge region of northwest Nebraska. Additionally, several other sightings have been documented, including a young radio-collared male from Colorado that traveled through the Panhandle's Texas County in 2010 and is now living in New Mexico, and trail camera pictures from the fall of 2009 that show mountain lions in Tillman and Atoka counties.
Also called "panthers," "cougars" and "pumas," mountain lions are native to Oklahoma and historically would have been found statewide. Bartholomew said it is a common misconception that the Wildlife Department has released mountain lions in Oklahoma.
Officials with the Wildlife Department rely on the public to report verifiable sightings, photos and reports of mountain lions to help document the species in Oklahoma.
To submit photographs and report sightings of mountain lions in Oklahoma, log on to wildlifedepartment.com and report your sighting online or call Bartholomew at (405) 385-1791.


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DNA analysis of the mountain lion that made headlines in November after being struck and killed by a vehicle near Minco has confirmed that the cat was a wild animal with genetic ties to populations in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. In this photo, Erik Bartholomew, furbearer biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, takes the rare opportunity to conduct research on the mountain lion, which was hit on HWY 81 north of Minco.​


130 lbs.! I have such mixed emotions about them. They are so beautiful and amazingly powerful. I would be terrified if I saw one in the wild and sure wouldn't want them to get any livestock but i don't think I could shoot one unless it was after a person. I might feel diffedent it it was after one of my cows.
 
130 lbs.! I have such mixed emotions about them. They are so beautiful and amazingly powerful. I would be terrified if I saw one in the wild and sure wouldn't want them to get any livestock but i don't think I could shoot one unless it was after a person. I might feel diffedent it it was after one of my cows.

Believe me you will think twice about walking around your own property when one stands up and gives you that lovely cat play mode tail wag and the dog comes to hide behind you.. done that year before last here and do not walk the back of the property without personal protection since.. Its a very different feeling when the cat is bigger than my dog and my dog knew it.
 
Tell us and Rebecca what your looking for, and get it on the list. Look for a post from Monty (Buckguy) it has the info. Sooner also posts it sometimes.

Looking for - hens only - silkie, cochin, brahma, sultan, polish .... get the idea? lol I have a two to trade (rehome etc)- sex unknown pekins was given the ducklings in early Feb.
 

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