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I've been goofing around with the Chicken Calculator, and I think I might have a crossbreeding gameplan. But, I want to know more about the genetics of the birds involved first. For example, the Cuckoo Marans from Murray McMurray, what is the 'extension of black'? 4 options on the calculator...

I'm trying to get a decent size list of good layers who come in this color pattern. I want to work autosexing into a medium size, dual purpose that lays well. I know sussex at least used to have a brown, but I can't find them (unfortunate, as the sussex personality is my first choice). It looks...

I'm going to start off by saying that I don't have a lot of experience with show quality birds, most I've been around have been hatchery stock. I was just wondering if there were less egg production in show birds, since they are bred for body shape, whereas hatcheries are obsessed with quantity...

55 flowery hens are gorgeous, but I really don't like the leghorn personality, or the fact that they are unlikely to set. So I would like to recreate the sex-linked color with other breeds. I found some info on other threads about their genetics: and: What other breeds have these traits? I'm...

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I have a still air Little Giant incubator, model 9300. I'm going to be upgrading it, by installing a fan kit, and a turner. I'd really like to get an Incuturn turner, but it's built for a Hovabator, so I'm not sure if it would fit. I've tried messaging incubator warehouse, but they don't...

I have done 4 hatches so far in my incubator, and this problem occurs in all hatches, to about 25-50% of the hatch. It has occurred with chicks from several breeds, and also to a Chinese painted quail chick, so I know it isn't a genetic issue. The incubator is a little giant still air...

Just finished my first incubation, and I am hooked! It was only 9 eggs, but it still seemed to take forever to turn them all by hand. I also lost 2 chicks right after hatching to umbilical infections, so I wanted somehow to turn them without touching every single egg 2-3 times per day. Meet my...

I don't know what is going on here, and I'm hoping someone has an answer. My first batch of Bielefelder eggs began hatching on 3-31. 5 eggs of the 9 were previously refrigerated, and only the refrigerated ones are having problems. Also, the first 2-3 days I had trouble getting the incubator...

I got 2 silkie chicks last week. They're somewhere between 4-10 weeks, I don't know anymore precisely than that. The smaller chick was sneezing moments after I got her home, and she hasn't quit since. At first there was bubbles, but now it sounds like she's congested too thickly for the snot to...

The way I understand it, a sexlink is created when you cross a solid colored rooster to a barred hen. So I would think that a Australorp roo to a Dominique hen would create a black sexlink, correct? The chicks would be black hens and barred roos? Let's take this a step further. Here's a...

I'm considering building a BSFL composter/harvester, but I'm not sure whether I should bother. Does anyone know if BSF adults can survive malathion being sprayed at night? My neighborhood is sprayed 3-4 times a week, sometimes I've heard the truck come back for a second pass. I don't get many...

I'm not going to be doing these myself (at least, not for the foreseeable future), but I'm thinking of what crosses would make good Easter eggers. My idea would be to cross an Ameracana rooster (for egg color) and Black Austrolorp hens (for heavy egg production and good disposition). You'd get...

Is there a secret to this? I ask, because every rooster I've ever known was human aggressive. From several different breeds too. Is it luck? Or are there certain things you can do to ensure they grow up respecting the humans?

Hello everyone! I'm from a little town called Abbeville in south central Louisiana. Turns out my town is so small, they have very little restrictions on poultry and fowl, so long as they don't make a stink, are domestic breeds (no wild/exotics), and have proper shelter and room, I shouldn't run...

Please note: this isn't for the quail I want to do this. I'm quite sensitive, enough that just handing the feed can make me ill. I'm taking precautions like wearing rubber gloves and trying not to breathe too much dust in when I'm pouring it, but I still get sick sometimes. I don't really want...