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    Wing It Ranch

    But the real question is are the clothes still being ignored in the dryer?
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    Wing It Ranch

    I have found the best way to get eggs to peel cleanly is to make egg salad. If I’m planning to chop them up they come out beautifully. If I plan to display them on a fancy platter they come out with so many divots they look like golf balls.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    New layer today! The final pullet from my hatch in July finally paid rent at 29 weeks old.
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    Open Contest BYC Poultry Caption Contest 02-20-26 Pic by CCsGarden

    “I’m the king of the world” Probably showing my age with that movie quote
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I believe I watched the same video. It was real popular with some Marans and Bresse Facebook groups I follow. It was a good watch
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Hatching season is officially starting for me. 37 eggs went into the incubators as follows 25 American Bresse laid within the past two weeks 7 American Bresse eggs they are between 2 and three weeks old 5 BC2 Olive Eggers Some of these eggs were collected on very cold days and I debated on...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    It’s warming up around here and most of the snow has turned to mud. The deeper piles are still hanging around but we’re forecasted to get to 59 today and 66 tomorrow. So I think it will all be gone soon. The incubators are turned on and up to temperature. I plan to set eggs either this...
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    Wrath's Marans

    If you count your chicken coops you have to admit you have a problem. You either have enough or not enough don’t get all caught up with specific numbers.
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    Wrath's Marans

    I believe today is hatch day. We need an update
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    Ended BYC Poultry Caption Contest 02-06-26 Pic by GodLovesU

    You can’t perch there
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    Wrath's Marans

    Yea, I’ve never seen a BCM with any yellow down feathers. I assume it’s genetic but not sure what genes are hiding. I always thought yellow down meant white adult feathers. I had an olive egger cockerel that had blue base color and a yellow belly as a chick. I didn’t think much of it at the time...
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    Wrath's Marans

    On my yard the males are definitely held to a higher standard than the females because they contribute half the genetics to the entire breeding pin. One male services several females. I don’t need to keep nearly as many boys as I do girls. I look for reasons to keep the girls around and I look...
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    Wrath's Marans

    that doesn’t sound right to me. Possibly white or wheaten genetics in the breeding line. Or an olive egger rooster jumped a fence. I’m far from an expert others might have a better explanation than me
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I only recently took up ice fishing. We have such a short season of safe ice that I couldn’t justify the cost of all the gear. A few years ago my father in law gave me some of his older equipment. When we take a shanty and heaters it gets warm enough that you can take you coat and gloves off...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The weather continues to be cold highs in the teens to twenties lows near 0F. Egg production is way down. Everyone seems to be healthy. I haven’t seen any additional frost bite just the some minor damage to large combed birds. The heated drinkers have been mostly working I did have one of the...
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