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Alright I can definitely do that. She currently is kept in a medium sized kennel with lots of hay to keep the area warmer. We let her out in a run with a few other pullets, but the rest of the flock can’t get to her. On really warm sunny days (60 degrees or more) we open the doors so she can...

Oh yes she’s a lot rounder than those guys lol. She’s handling her 8 extremely well and is able to give them full coverage when they want it. I do have an area where I can plug in a heat lamp for supplemental heat at night for mama and babies. I don’t really have an area to safely have a...

How many standard size chicks can I safely give to my bantam size hen? She’s been doing great so far with the 8 she has but I’m worried they won’t fit so well underneath her in a few weeks to be able to keep warm. She’s a bantam cochin for size reference and this is her first hatch. I do also...

Not yet! We just moved so I’m still working on getting my pens separated and fertilized by the right boys! It’ll be probably a year at least before I get lavender chicks and even longer before I get the silkie feathering.

I have a bottle baby about 5 days old. I’ve been feeding him lightly warmed kmr (as much as he will willingly eat) around 4-6ml every 2-4 hours. He’s been pooping regularly with stimulation, however today I noticed small streaks of diluted blood on the wet wipe used to stimulate. I’ve read this...

Thank you! I’m hoping her type will help improve my future lines! I’m no expert and still learning to evaluate but I think she’s got decent body shape and I just love her crest. Hoping I will get some quality babies from her❤️

Only this thread would understand how excited I am about this girl!😍🩷 fluffiest girl in my little flock.

We didn’t have time to process at the 12 week marker, so I think they were closer to 16 weeks. Close to sexually mature and a lot easier to weed out the culls. At that age they’re not going to do a ton of changing, just some thickening out. So basic confirmation like shoulders, good hips and...

That’s amazing! Almost the same as a whole chicken but so much better for you! What was the hanging weight of your rabbits?

I usually scatter a single handful of scratch grains through the thicker grass in our yard once a day maybe every other day. It’s such a small amount I don’t imagine it would have an impact. It’s just something I do when they look bored. We have a large gravel driveway I do catch them all...

Thank you so much, that was very helpful! There would definitely be variations between breeds and their feed intake but yes I agree. It would be better to just breed more rexes and increase the quality of my stock and just cull harder than to try and manage breeding multiple types of rabbits...

I have a silver laced English Orpington that has an absolutely ginormous crop. It’s empty every morning but she just refills it by the evening with an astronomical amount of food. It’s roughly the size of a softball. My question is, is it unhealthy for her to do this? Is this breed more prone to...

Thank you, I do think I might just go with breeding the rexes. I’ll have to raise more to produce the same amount of meat as a larger meat breed, but I think it’d be the same amount of feed to raise a larger faster growing breed anyway.

Wow that was incredibly detailed. Thank you so much that really helped me understand genes a lot better. So In theory I can use this method to determine the color of almost any cross as long as I know if the colors are sex linked, incomplete dominant, dominant or recessive?

So I currently keep standard Rex and breed for confirmation for show. I send less than exceptional kits to freezer camp. A dual purpose program. So far I’ve only had one litter. My program is in the ‘garage’ phase. My question is, is there a breed I could cross with my standard Rex buck to...