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dheltzel said:
Right, male chicks would have a white headspot and barring on their feathers (evident at just a few days of age, if the headspot is not clear). It would also be easy to make olive egger sexlinks from a black Marans roo but putting him over Cream Legbars. You could keep them in a single pen, the dark eggs make "dark egg BSL" chicks and the blue eggs make "olive egg BSL" chicks.
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This sounds like an awesome idea! If we're ever able to have roosters, I'd be very tempted to make this my first project....
 
yoopergirl1211 said:
I'm having a hard time figuring out how mad I am. The woman we bought them from was definitely old enough to be my grandma and by herself. We had talked to people that bought animals from her over the years and all were happy with her. She mentioned that she normally had 100 goats but had a heart attack last October so she was cutting back. I feel like I did when we had to take away my grandma's car keys. Obviously if this is how the animals are living it's not okay and something should be done but I honestly don't think she has them in this condition on purpose after talking to her. So I'm hesitant to get her in trouble. If I knew her better or her family I'd talk to them. But on the other hand the poor animals need help. Ugh. I don't know what to do. I'm definitely going to talk to vet about it.
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Maybe bring it up with the lady herself. Did you get to see their living conditions when you bought them? If it's really bad, and overcrowded, I would bring it up to the lady and if she does nothing, then involve the authorities. If she is irresponsibly breeding them for money, without taking proper care of them, then that is definitely wrong!!! If she is just overwhelmed with too many animals, she should start selling what she has and limit it to what she can responsibly take care of. She could also hire someone to come help her take care of them. I just worry that she may be hoarding them, I witnessed a chicken hoarding situation not far from here and we bought 4 off of her to rescue them. I really want to get more from her soon, and hope she takes care of them properly. It's sad.
 
hyzenthlay said:
I love your EE's name! :)

Re the color of your slow-feathering BLRW, it will probably lighten from what you see now. I got a BLRW from Meyer, and she had the darkest chick fluff and her first feathers grew in very black looking, but once she matured she was a pretty nice steely blue. Let me see if I can find pics... here we go--that's Zinnia on the left in the first pic. And speaking of my pretty BA (RIP), she's photobombing in the pic with the dogs. :)



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Gorgeous chickens! I love the fluffy butts, signs of a healthy chicken! :)
 
hyzenthlay said:
I love your EE's name! :) Re the color of your slow-feathering BLRW, it will probably lighten from what you see now. I got a BLRW from Meyer, and she had the darkest chick fluff and her first feathers grew in very black looking, but once she matured she was a pretty nice steely blue. Let me see if I can find pics... here we go--that's Zinnia on the left in the first pic. And speaking of my pretty BA (RIP), she's photobombing in the pic with the dogs. :) [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR]c [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR]
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So pretty!! I have two chicks that went like that. They looked black but are that pretty dark dusty blue already at a month. The one I was hoping was a splash started with very light blue but now he/she is starting to look darker like the other two. I really like the splash colors so I guess I'll just have to have babies. Almost positive I ended up with three blue red and three black red.
 
dheltzel said:
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So the chicks I have in the incubator have a CCL/Marans father. I think there is a CG egg, a CCL egg, a Legbar egg and an Olive egger egg (sister of Rusty, so CCL.Marans mix). Will any of these possibly sexable with a headspot? Of course I will post pictures anyways...

On day 5 of the incubation (Starting with day 21). The last three days they go into lockdown with no turning, extra humidity, correct?
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So I finally got home from school and Keith's still at work. I'm all ready to go find the plans and post pictures for everyone of our drawn out coop plans annnndddd he's got them in his backpack at work because I can't find them....
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Thanks, @FluffyButt789 and @fangedknight ! Those pics make me look forward to green grass and leaves on the trees again. Right now that grassy area in the las pic looks like this:



On the upside, my new covered run is almost done! Now we mostly just need to add sand for bedding, and cut a door into the coop so the chickens can actually use it! We're probably also going to add some soil to grade that "grassy" area so it doesn't turn into a pond with every rainfall. Best to do it now while it's already a mud pit, and then seed it so the grass can grow by summer.
 
FluffyButt789 said:
Maybe bring it up with the lady herself. Did you get to see their living conditions when you bought them? If it's really bad, and overcrowded, I would bring it up to the lady and if she does nothing, then involve the authorities. If she is irresponsibly breeding them for money, without taking proper care of them, then that is definitely wrong!!! If she is just overwhelmed with too many animals, she should start selling what she has and limit it to what she can responsibly take care of. She could also hire someone to come help her take care of them. I just worry that she may be hoarding them, I witnessed a chicken hoarding situation not far from here and we bought 4 off of her to rescue them. I really want to get more from her soon, and hope she takes care of them properly. It's sad.
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I can definitely see her being a hoarder. There were at least 200 to 250 birds walking around plus pigs cows, wiener dogs, cats, and anything else you can think of. In all reality she's not my grandma so I should stop feeling so bad for being mad about the poor goats. I'll talk to the vet tomorrow and see who I should talk to. They ate way more today and only one foot is still hurting enough to limp. I'm hoping the wormer I gave them is finally working.

This is one of the chicks I know is blue. Not a very good pic. Hopefully the featherless one does lighten up. I really like the splashes.
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And look at all of my eggs from 4 days plus 12 that we ate last night! 22 duck eggs!
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