SQ Egg Swap chat thread

[itsiebitsiefarm]

LMAO!

Jim, I'm glad those little yellow chicks, will help out your 4-H'rs.
Just let me know, when you're ready for more eggs!! I'm sure Julie would love to hatch out, another 20+.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Hey, if she don't want anyone crawling in a window, then post a sign!

Actually I drove up, left the motor and lights on, entered a door and boxed them up.

Anyone want any MGB or OEGB? Also a very large attack cat named Garfield? I may have passed a coop full of Champion Barred Plymouth Rocks. It was starting to get sort of dark so I could not see much. Plus I heard juliechick was a crack shot with a 22!

 

[HenThymes]

Little Ameraucana Mom- Have a question.... I managed to hatch 7 of the 10 or 12 lav ameraucana's that you sent, they are just cute as ever.

Anyway, they are only a couple of days old and I notice two of them have a larger and much more red comb area already, the others are dark and smaller. Are these able to be sexed that early? The two with the red comb area are also more alert and out front compared to the others. Thanks in advance for any advise.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

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Can't say I've noticed any difference that early!! Do they have a single comb, I have noticed single combs you can tell earlier. I haven't gotten any single combs this year, Got 1 last year,, but they do still pop up every once in awhile in the Lav. bantams.

 

[HenThymes]

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Can't say I've noticed any difference that early!! Do they have a single comb, I have noticed single combs you can tell earlier. I haven't gotten any single combs this year, Got 1 last year,, but they do still pop up every once in awhile in the Lav. bantams.

I will look in the morning and get back with you in that. I don't think I was noticing any combs, just a wide red space.

 

[HenThymes]

Here's an example, I took this yesterday. You can see the one on the right has a much wider comb area than the one on the left. Today that one of the right is even more red than the picture shows, they were only born Tuesday into Wednesday.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

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I would put a leg band on it or mark it some way and see if it does turn out to be a cockrel

 

[HenThymes]

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I would put a leg band on it or mark it some way and see if it does turn out to be a cockrel

Thanks, I have two that way and the other 5 have smaller/darker comb area. I will band them and see what happens.

 

[chickenlover54]

Little Ameraucana Mom, here is an updated pic of the Blue Wheaten OE I hatched from you. Is it a male or female? It looks like a male to me but its still light. I am not good with blue wheatens

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

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This is my first year hatching them also. But I've been able to tell the sex by the comb ptetty early. I can't tell by color as early as the comb. These are my first wheatens , so I'm still learning.