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    ELI5 Why do so many ppl treat chickens expendable??

    I love my birds. I give them the best life I can and I cull them whenever and for whatever reason I decide I need to. Loving them and taking the responsibility to also cull them is part of the deal with livestock. It is done humanely and never out of malice. But done nonetheless. My birds are...
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    Geese for meat

    We have geese for this purpose! And duck and quail...in addition to the chickens.
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    12 weeks old - Silver Laced Wyandotte - roo or hen?

    I vote cockerel/roo
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    Hucklekree's 2023 Incubation Records (for funsies)

    I am going to add this here as I don't really wamt to start another thread. 2024 hatch season has already begun. So far: 3 Bielefelder 11 Salmon Faverolle 11 BYM In the incubators now are: 17 Bielefelder Eggs 5 Crevecoeur 17 Salmon Faverolle 5 BYM All are developing and have 13 more days...
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    Hatchery Salmon Faverolle Male or Female?

    Where are you located? I have 16 going into lockdown soon.
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    I am in my second year of trying to get my success rates up with duck hatches. Sorry for the losses.
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    Hatchery Salmon Faverolle Male or Female?

    I raise SF and have hoped that the brown will mean hen so many times 😅. It doesn't ever.
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    Hatchery Salmon Faverolle Male or Female?

    All birds pictured are male.
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    Anyone else get Hoover's Crèvecœurs?

    Depends on where the line gor hoovers came from. Greenfire imported stock with the BBS genes. There are other lines that only have black.
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    Hucklekree's 2023 Incubation Records (for funsies)

    The weak one passed in its sleep. So two total chicks netted out of the three replacement eggs.
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    Hucklekree's 2023 Incubation Records (for funsies)

    To my surprise, as of yesterday, all three remaining eggs have hatched. One is quite weak but with the turning issue I would notbhave thought any would hatch.
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    Hucklekree's 2023 Incubation Records (for funsies)

    So between the heat of summer, older layers, user error with regards to turning, it looks like 10 chicks are what I am going to get from this go around. Waiting to see what the three  replacement eggs do. Not looking great for these though as the problem with the turner happened during a more...
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    Hucklekree's 2023 Incubation Records (for funsies)

    So far, had one hatched yesterday. Five more have hatched today. Four have external pips. Tomorrow is the official hatch date. A quick picture included before I head to bed. Dry incubated and keeping humidity up in the high 50s/low 60s. Anything lower seems to be too dry for them.
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    Hucklekree's 2023 Incubation Records (for funsies)

    Well, it isn't looking good for these eggs. Forgot to reset the incubator countdown and it stopped turning them sometime between the 8th and the 15th when I caught it. Not great. I have 11 eggs of the original 22 in lockdown with internal pips (or close to it), and one with an external. There...
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    Hucklekree's 2023 Incubation Records (for funsies)

    3 clears from birds I was curious about for fertilization rates. Gues sthat answers my question. replaced with 3 more fresh eggs. Removed 3 early quitters from the first 22. Down to 19 eggs - 16 original set and 3 late additions.
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