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    Sex link

    For a first generation black sexlink, you need a red based rooster and a barred/cuckoo hen. It is best if you use a black based barred as lighter barreds can work, but if it is too light a base, it's hard to see the white head dot (been there, done that)....it means a lot of squinting. With...
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    How does one best find replacement prices by a certain chicken type and age? Related to police and insurance reports, livestock valuations

    Old legal secretary here, at one point worked for insurance litigators....and I've had a car totaled (not my fault) twice. Typically it is market standard for like. In the case of a car, it is infuriating because they will not pay replacement quality (reconditioned in any way) but rather...
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    Gender question

    You have a barnyard mix with nothing genetically to sex link. I find comb size the best gage for my barnyards. There is nothing indicating rooster yet in this chick. Those little bumps are spur buds. All chickens, even females, get a slight spur, the males simply get bigger spurs. LofMc
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    Chickens as a Business

    Start looking now for who/what will take your spent hens. My better breeds I can re-home, usually for free, designer or rarer breeds for cheap. As stated the commercial hybrid high layers are pretty sad by year 3. There are those who will pick up for use in fodder or fertilizer. Oh...and of...
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    Chickens as a Business

    That sounds really good. Removing and refreshing bark dust will be your way to go. Let me also mention the beauties of black sexlinks, mine were especially plentiful and hardier than the red, or consider California Grey (if you can get them), plentiful, large white eggs. My clients really...
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    Chickens as a Business

    I can tell you what I've learned as a hobbyist who sells eggs on a very small scale who began her flock as a project for my Vet Tech daughter to learn with. I also have an organic farmer son in law that now farms veggies and for a time chickens with said daughter, and I have small farm friends...
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    Crop problem please help

    What you are talking about is sour crop, squishy balloon like crop of fermented food from fungal overgrowth vs impacted crop, hard ball, blockage. I'm dealing with sour crop at the moment too. (Oddly the first time in 15 years of chicken ownership). I'm blaming it on some kale I gave...
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    URGENT! New or used car - which is better?

    ...oh, and if at all possible, save up to pay for the car outright. I know that can be really, really hard, but the interest pay back adds another third to what the car is worth. Your car will literally devalue more in 3 to now 6 years of loan payback while you still have loan to pay making it...
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    URGENT! New or used car - which is better?

    As Dave Ramsey (a financial advisor) says: If you buy a new car, take a wad of bills, roll down the window, and toss them out of the window as you drive off the lot and keep doing that as you drive down the road. A new car loses 20 to 25% of its value the first year of driving with 15% each...
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    Auto Sexing and Sex Link??

    Yes. I fixed it in later post. BYC computer wouldn't accept my edits on the original post.
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    Auto Sexing and Sex Link??

    Lol. I shouldn't type late at night. With silver in the ROO, over red/brown/gold based hens, female chicks will be yellow marked down and males gold/red marked down. You won't be able to line breed these female daughters back to original silver roo for sex linking. You'll just reinforce the...
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    Auto Sexing and Sex Link??

    You'd also like Scratch Cradle genetics articles. I learned a lot that way. https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/genetics-mini-series/
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    Auto Sexing and Sex Link??

    Here. Click on basic color type to see results. This is the simplified one. https://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator
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    Auto Sexing and Sex Link??

    No. Barred roo will NOT produce sex linking. Getting a barred roo over your hens will merely give single barred birds both genders first generation. You have to breed single barred girls then back to double barred rooster to then keep double barred roosters and single barred girls ridding any...
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    Auto Sexing and Sex Link??

    Yes. All 3...Welsummer, RIR, GLW. It won't be as pretty and clear as a silver (white looking) clean roo over your RIR (yellow down vs. red fox down). For all 3 you will get light base yellow chipmunkish boys and darker red fox chipmunkish girls. The SLW over RIR according to the chicken...
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