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It's hard when your best friends decline, but the years of happiness they give to you before they go make it all worth while. I hope her passing is gentle and her last days as pleasant as possible.

Oh. I ended up holding him like a turkey, haha! He's not a small bird, I should weigh him some time. On the other hand I am a rather small human, most twelve year olds are bigger than me, lol. I am proud to say that I did not drop him and embarrass him in front of his girls. :D He talked to me...

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He was surprisingly calm. He quivered a bit and bupped indignantly at me but otherwise he took it very well lol.

Tried to practice the chicken exam instructions on my Roo today since he's the least flighty of my birds.... My hands are too small! I couldn't fit his thighs between my fingers. I will have to practice with the girls I guess, lol.

Oh, thank God! I do not enjoy crowds lol! And the disease factor had me nervous too.

Ah. Hmm, well, I don't need to and I suppose it wouldn't really be a new breed in the real world sense as I have no intention of marketing them or even getting them recognized. But I do want to produce consistent layers and consistently large meat birds for my own and my families use. I enjoy...

@bamadudePretty!

Whew! Lots of info! A lot of things I didn't know. Thanks. A little discouraging though. I was hoping I could make do with the stock I had on hand for the most part. The time factor doesn't bother me and I'm not surprised it would take that long. There are a lot of variables to take into...

Neat!

Hmm, could be. I would have guessed lemon but it almost has a bluish look to it in person. Like self blue that's been diluted almost to nonexistence. But I don't know of any gene that does that. Edit: not self blue, Andalusian blue, regular blue, not lavender. Derp, sorry.

What coincidence! Me too! :D

Thanks

]LOL! That's about as far as I got with this one too! :lol:

I've got one that has me completely baffled! Want a crack at it before Tara gates here ;) ? The one on the right. Don't even know what I'm looking at here! What is that color?

Cool! :D

Thanks! I hope I'm not stepping on any toes starting a new topic here.

Could you post pictures and instructions of how to handle and assess a bird or direct me to such. This is something I need to learn. I don't have a particular breed now but I will be developing a couple of lines of birds essentially from scratch and I need to be able to assess them in order to...

I'm new to chicken genetics and was told this was the place to go to learn more. Would anybody be game for helping me identify the color genes (maybe breed genes later when the chicks get older) in my mutt chicks. My MIL and I take in unwanted chickens ( most of them stay with her since her...