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    When do you start adding to your flock- contingency plan

    I foresee problems with your hatching plans. When you hatch chicks, about half of them will be male. Do you have plans for what to do with the males? It is usually not a good idea to raise a single chick by itself. It tends to be lonely and unhappy, and it does not learn how to properly...
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    Ear Lobes = Egg Color?

    Red and white are the two main earlobe colors. "White" earlobes with certain skin colors can look blue (Silkies) or sometimes a bit greenish or yellowish. Until fairly recently, there were no common breeds that laid blue or green eggs. Now there are Araucanas and Ameraucanas that are supposed...
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    Ear Lobes = Egg Color?

    I suppose it would be almost as accurate as expecting pea combs to go with blue eggs. It is likely to be right more than half the time, if you stick with the common hatchery breeds and hybrids, and chicks descended from them. As soon as you get into rare breeds and special breeding projects, it...
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    Ear Lobes = Egg Color?

    There do not seem to be any genes that affect both earlobe color and egg color. Or pairs of linked genes that affect the two traits. But among pure breeds, most breeds that have white earlobes do lay white eggs. And most breeds that have red earlobes do lay red eggs. There are exceptions both...
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    White Leghorn Roo x Exchequer leghorn hen??

    For any chick with the Exchequer Leghorn mother, it will have one gene for mottling, and can pass that on to its own chicks. That will be true for white chicks and any other chicks, as well as for silver chicks. Whether a silver chick can pass on white genes will depend on what is causing the...
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    Thoughts on breeds?

    It's easy to see the basic shape (not a flat rose comb) and miss other details, especially on a small screen with bad lighting. :thumbsup
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    Thoughts on breeds?

    I was also looking at the adult picture. I couldn't see either comb very well in the chick photo, so I just focused on the adult ones.
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    Thoughts on breeds?

    I don't think #7 has a single comb, although I agree it is not a typical flat rose comb that would be found on a Dominique. When I enlarged the picture and zoomed in, I saw the comb has more than one row of bumps or points on it. But I couldn't see clearly enough to decide what kind of comb it...
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    Thoughts on breeds?

    Oops! Mis-typed there. Silver turns GOLD into white.
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    Genetic questions!

    It should be genetically possible. But actually getting those genes into one chicken may take some doing. I've seen khaki silver duckwing for sale from Ideal Poultry (Old English Game Bantams, they list it as "Fawn Silver Duckwing.")...
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    Creating sexable chick!

    Much of that is wrong. That will not give color-sexable chicks. With that cross, every chick will inherit one barring gene from the Cream Legbar father, and no barring gene from the Ameraucana mother. That means both male and female chicks will show barring, and they will have the same amount...
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    i don't like going outside anymore because of our rooster

    Some roosters will move away if you carry a stick or a bucket or the lid of a garbage can or something like that. So in some cases, just carrying the object will mean you do not need to use it. Of course this does not work with all roosters or all situations, but it is usually worth trying, if...
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    What breed is this fluffy ball that we bought yesterday?

    Yes, the chick might grow up to look like that. And yes, the chick might have a parent who looks like that. Generally yes. Then again, I think most kinds of chickens are good, so my opinion doesn't tell you very much ;)
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    What breed is this fluffy ball that we bought yesterday?

    It will be black. It might have entirely black feathers, or it might be mostly black with a bit of other color in a few places. It will have feathered feet. I don't know which breed it might be.
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    Genetic questions!

    I agree! It's great fun!
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