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Since Tractor Supply will be getting their chicks in soon, I guess it is time to post picks to help the newbies pick out the girls from the boys in the 'straight run' bins:

Hatcheries select their parent breeders by this method. The females are fast feathering and the males are slow feathering. So at hatch, most their chicks can be feather sexed like this: This is only for chicks from hatcheries. Once you start breeding them at home, you lose this ability because you don't have parent breeders who have been selected for their feathering.....Anyway, the chicks from hatcheries can be sexed like this......


Girl chicks will have two different lengths of feathers


Males will have one length.

This is good for the first 4 days only. You have a right to check the feathers when you buy the chicks. Don't let them say you can't. Oh, and you can't do this with bantams. Bantams are pot luck!

And, just so you know.....I still have chicks for sale! 2-3 week olds now! Most are mixes that will lay colored eggs. Some will be crested, some will have feathered legs, and some will not! They all look different!

I sold my Lavender Ameraucana trio! I have an Isabel Cuckoo Orpington chick (3 weeks old) for sale and I may sell two of my Mottled Orpingtons (10 months old) if anyone is interested. They are purebreds. Rare chickens.


Also, I am still planning on going to the Newnan show. Who else is going? Which day are you going? I am picking up some Black Copper Marans hatching eggs from a guy who enters (and wins) them in the show! Yay! Can't wait! I have money to spend!
 
katsdar said:
I lost a hen a leghorn to a hawk today. So sad, any ideas on how to keep them scared away?
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I used to lose some youngsters to hawks. The chicks were in a small strip behind the house.. I decided to put out umbrellas at different spacing down that strip of the house when the chicks were out there. Never lost another one. Looks REALLY tacky, but it worked and I just pick up the umbrellas and fold them and put them up once the chicks were back inside their house. I don't know that you can prevent hawk attacks if the chickens are all over the yard, though. Sad you lost one!
 
Here is one of our new Brahma roosters hanging out with the Juveniles. He's only 8 months old. Hasn't crowed once since we've had him which has been over a week now. Big boy. His name is Emerson.
 
Flowerbh said:
My hatch is now over: Of the 20 eggs I put into lockdown, 18 hatched. I knew something was wrong with one....always had a strange floating thing in it....it was alive going into lockdown, but never internally pipped. Then, I was almost positive one egg was dead, but couldn't see that well so it went into lockdown. It had died early. So, of the 18 that looked good, all 18 hatched. However, one of the Blue Partridge Brahmas was born with a birth defect. It's umbilical cord was located on the right lower side of the chicks. Not sure it will live, but it is still alive right now. Has anyone seen this before? Outcome? Except for the Brahma and the Isabel Cuckoo Orpington, all will be colored egg layers! (Except for the roos of course! LOL)
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Hey Flower! How did your baby turn out? I was just going to say, for future reference, that every Brahma I ever hatched- from all different sources- seemed a bit "soggy" at hatch, although I don't recall seeing an offset umbilicus. Hope yours did ok!
 
Hope everyone is doing well. After months of being distracted with school and hating winter, I THINK my chicken fever is returning :clap

Sooo... when do chick days start at TSC? I just remembered they get chicks and usually have Australorps, AND I pass one every time I work. :lau I think I might need an Australorp or two.. oh and also I miss my MFD flock that I scrapped. :(
 
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carcar80 said:
Hey Flower! How did your baby turn out? I was just going to say, for future reference, that every Brahma I ever hatched- from all different sources- seemed a bit "soggy" at hatch, although I don't recall seeing an offset umbilicus. Hope yours did ok!
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Hey Carcar! The chick is great! Can't even tell which one it was now! Waiting for them to get a little older to see how they look.

Yay! Hope you get back into chickens again. Australorps? I think you should get some more MFDs! They might have some at the Newnan Show! Are you going?

Our TS says they get their chicks mid Feb.! Can't wait! I just like to go in and listen to all the cute chirping!
 
Flowerbh said:
Hey Carcar! The chick is great! Can't even tell which one it was now! Waiting for them to get a little older to see how they look.

Yay! Hope you get back into chickens again. Australorps? I think you should get some more MFDs! They might have some at the Newnan Show! Are you going?

Our TS says they get their chicks mid Feb.! Can't wait! I just like to go in and listen to all the cute chirping!
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I'm not going to the show, but if you guys see anything that looks good let me know. I've tried contacting people who got birds from me but none have any eggs now. :/ Kicking myself for getting rid of them but my GOSH nine broody hens at once drove me to the edge of insanity! LOL

Right now I have bantam Cochins (a silver laced quad, one black roo, one blue hen, a buff Barred roo and two frizzle hens), three BR hens, two BO hens from GAM, and a quad of FBCM that hatched Tgiving. So I'm not completely out, just ready to regroup for spring. :)
 
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