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@MenelausMontrose - Heidi is currently working on Mille Fleur Watermaal. A lot of them are in the project phase right now, a mixture of Mottled Watermaal and Mille Fleur d’Uccle. She will be breeding her F2s this year. I am not sure if she is going to keep her Mottled and Lavender mottled...

These are great before and after photos, thank you for sharing jess330

I can do assortments, for sure. And if you want me to pick, I can do it. And I can band the chicks and send along a key as well, so you know which varieties you have.

I typically do in the fall. Right now I only have a blue quail pullet (9 months old).

Or if you are a female and select a degree in biology you might spend the first half of your “career” life working temporary jobs and shifting gears every 6 months and then finding a new venue every 3-4 years. And sweating about where you might move, if you can take the chickens or afford them…...

I do need to create a new website. Webs changed ownership and deleted all the free websites hosted by them. I need to come up with something new. I’ve set up the breeding pens for 2024: 3 pens of quail and blue quail Watermaal (7 females that will produce blue quail, 5 for solid quail) 3...

This was my BV blue quail watermaal cockerel, I believe :)

Some pictures of some of the birds I've got right now in various pens (note the BBRs are not going to be available 2024, but will be 2025). `

I will be shipping hatching eggs and chicks again for 2024. Prices will be the same ( though I will need to increase soon due to higher feed costs- probably 2025). My prices for eggs are by the half dozen or dozen ($20 per half dozen or $40 per dozen) plus $20 shipping and handling per box...

So from what I’ve read, there are two categories of rumplessness: accidental and genetic. I have raised d’Anvers for a long time and have never (before 2023) hatched rumpless birds. My self blues I acquired in 2015 and started with just an hen and have interbred them with my blacks (which I have...

mbuzz, I am also thinking this is beard picking from another bird. Is she regrowing yet? Also, do you have a picture of her from when she had a beard? Beard picking happens with my d'Anvers too... pic below is of same hen and a pic of her as a pullet with a full beard. The birds do this as a...

I have noticed a lot of posts on beard picking on this forum, and I was hoping BYC members could help me acquired photos of different bearded breeds with and without their beards (whether from picking or molting). I am trying to see how many breeds have dewlaps and how the presence of a dewlap...

This does sound like feather picking. I have it happen in my d'Anvers all the time. Would you happen to have pictures that I could share on an article about beards? I have done a small section on beard picking, but I am also curious about the presence of a dewlap on birds with picked beards...

In this particular case, this hen was in with a single cock. There was no competition for nestboxes. The baldness was from the male mounting her. But the beardlessness was from social grooming. There is a genetic component to this behavior and not one that good management can 100% solve or...