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    Broody or Bust: Can You Handle a Sitting Hen?

    You can. Put some food and water by them. Many give up in a couple of weeks. Some however will brood until something hatches no matter how long. They can brood themselves sick. Those you may need to break for health sake, but they tend to be difficult to break. I use my broodies, so I never...
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    Hesitating with dispatching them

    Or you look around in your area for a butcher or meat processor who takes them live and whole, you go out for coffee, come back a couple hours later and collect nice meat packages wrapped in brown paper. You may have to go to the outskirts of the city but most places have a business like that in...
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    What will the chicks I’m hatching look like?

    I'll play. It will at least get the thread going with someone telling me how wrong I am :P First off, I'm thinking your Jersey Giant is "blue" not grey as that is the typical type in JG. Blue is what you would see as "blue grey/grey" but it's called blue. A little blue lesson. Blue is a...
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    Splash Ameraucana roo x Starlight Green Egger hen

    One last response I missed your question on Kitty. I'd call it a nice splash...black diluter in both genes. The color you call bleed through on the wings is the common male red wing barring. I've not got the genetics of that down but it must be sex linked as it is a male coloring pattern. If...
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    Splash Ameraucana roo x Starlight Green Egger hen

    My experience first gen the muff beard typically presents in the chicks with one muffed bearded parent. Ditto leg feathers, btw, if you had any leg feathering with Marans, ditto crests like Cream Legbars. 2nd gen you see those fall away if not bred back to the bearded muffed or crested or...
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    Splash Ameraucana roo x Starlight Green Egger hen

    Honey looks buff to me. Blue chicks both sexes with this pairing first generation. Breed those females back to splash dad and you'll get 50% splash and 50% blue both sexes. This first gen pairing will produce 50% two blue shell gene daughters and 50% single blue shell gene daughters. All as...
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    Splash Ameraucana roo x Starlight Green Egger hen

    Honey lays, if I understand correctly green. She has at least one blue shell gene then to create the blue of the actual shell (literally bile thrown into the calcite gland to create blue shell ). Since her outside shell color is medium green, she carries some of the 13 odd genes that create...
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    Dog Pooping on Floor at Night

    Not the ZD. But I checked and it's still vet rx. I agree get meat as first ingredient and no corn.
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    Nest found now what?

    Risky. Put your 2 new chickens somewhere else...into the main flock if ready. Trying to put momma and newly hatched babes in with some new chickens might disrupt things with momma still on eggs at a crucial moment. Chances are the eggs that hatched are all that is going to hatch. Momma will sit...
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    Nest found now what?

    Yes. Most likely she'll hop down, chirp at babes, babes will tumble after....then follow to coop. It may be a bit trying on mom until they all follow as there's always one last scaredy cat. She might lose a few. It's your tolerance level to let things be or intervene. Her location makes...
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    Nest found now what?

    Oh bless her little heart...and I mean that in the Southern way. The little stinker of course picked an impossible place. Well, my old farm girl attitude is...she chose it, she can deal with it. She'll get down and the babes will tumble after her. It may be total chaos at that point...or not...
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    What would the results of a Cream Legbar rooster over Hy Line brown hens look like?

    If cream legbar pure, you will have all green egg laying daughters and roos that carry 1 blue gene. The blue shell gene presents with blue shell while the brown genetics act as a wash over the blue to present as green. Typically light to medium green depending on the depth of brown in the hybrid...
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    Dog Pooping on Floor at Night

    Aw. She looks like a lab or lab mix. We raised lots of labs in the program over our 10 years with it. Yes. I think your feeding schedule and food choice is likely driving this. Pooping 5 to 6 times a day is extremely excessive especially at her age. Watch corn content which is a common issue...
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    Dog Pooping on Floor at Night

    I can tell you what we did as guide dog puppy raisers as the program was keen to make sure guides were faithful in this department. Typically if these steps are missed bad habits form which are hard to break Feeding time is number one. When do you feed her. That has a lot to do with timing of...
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    A tale of two hatches

    Or you pay $5 to $6 per egg for breeder quality eggs, and you get a poor hatching because your "faithful" broody quit 2 weeks into it leaving them stone cold for a day, killing embryos, because of course that is the one day you had to be gone all day. Then, unbeknownst to you, a hen from the...
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