UPSTATE NY chickenstock OCT 3rd Sunday!! -The aftermath and hatching

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They may be mixes. They should have 5 toes and can be feather sexed. Males feather in black and females feather in brown.

ok so if they are mixes then would they feather in the same?
 
Someone in another thread said that MF d'uccle also are easily sexable within a few weeks. Is that true? And how?
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I'd like to see if I have another 10 boys
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I was able to sex them very quickly by their combs and was correct 100%.:<))
The roos quickly become wider/bigger/pinker held up to the hens. A couple of my roos bagan crowing very early as well (squeaky crows). Send some pics along.

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Not necessarily. If they are mixed they could look the same.... or like 2 totally different breeds. Mxes are a lot of fun to watch develop.Should be fun to see what they develop into. Good luck!

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They may be mixes. They should have 5 toes and can be feather sexed. Males feather in black and females feather in brown.

ok so if they are mixes then would they feather in the same?
 
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Yah, 2 weeks and on it gets really easy to tell sexes.

especially the boys:-) hahaha-those two buggers are in heaven right now-they are in a huge pen in my kitchen-they are being housed with the moderns-they all get along I needed the cage below them empty for all the chicks Ill be hatching in three weeks-bator is getting loaded tonight-with 28 of my splits and 16 of your millies!!!

My hatch is done I cracked and all were gone:-*( shrink wrapped and Im totally confused on that because I had humidty perfect the whole time-im going to increase it during 1-18 this time and see where it gets me-so I have 6 weeny teeeny silkies in another brooder in kitchen-not you guys have seen my kitchen the space is packed hahaha
 
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Sorry the rest didn't hatch for you Nat, that really sucks.

So, I have a wonderful hubby. I am sick as a dog, so I stayed home from work today. He got up and let me sleep in. Usually sleeping in for me is like 8 or 9, nope, today I slept till 11:30! Holy cow! I got up and found Jeremy outside making a cute little area to put my chicken Christmas decorations in. Awwww, what a great guy!
 
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Sorry the rest didn't hatch for you Nat, that really sucks.

So, I have a wonderful hubby. I am sick as a dog, so I stayed home from work today. He got up and let me sleep in. Usually sleeping in for me is like 8 or 9, nope, today I slept till 11:30! Holy cow! I got up and found Jeremy outside making a cute little area to put my chicken Christmas decorations in. Awwww, what a great guy!

awwww glad you got to sleep in and a big awww for Jeremy being Jeremy
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All I want is that heating vent dang it!!!
 
how is everyone
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been busy here...glad to see all the little chickies that hatched
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just read about Gretchens stroke and I hope she is doing well...been hatching eggs out here like crazy...up to 55 chickens here now
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Did you see my chicks, shellz? Maybe you can guess what hatched out. I was kinda bummed the two dino size eggs didn't make it - for some reason the humidity was too high for those huge eggs! They were black chickies tho
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