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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    She sat on golf balls in March but didn’t always return to the same box. Then she happily accepted and raised chicks after sitting for 3 weeks
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I have a broody here as well. Smoky has decided she wants more chicks but she hasn’t settled down into just one nesting box so I don’t trust that she will sit on the eggs I want her to hatch.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Thank you
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The incubator is loaded. 12 White Bresse from a local guy I found on Craigslist. The rest are from my flock. I’m hoping to get start a Bresse line to keep separate from my egg layers. If this hatch goes well I’ll have to thin down on some of my older birds this fall.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    All seven of the little ones have chosen to sleep in the big coop the past two nights rather than the grow out pin that they have known to be home since they left the brooder. So I guess that means they consider themselves part of the flock. They are still sleeping in a pile on the floor not up...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Yesterday I opened the door between the two runs so the youngest batch of chicks can integrate into the main flock. It went really well just the normal amount of light chasing and pecking but nothing I felt I needed to break up. This little girl is looking really good to me ver similar to her...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The first round of chicks are now 12 weeks old. 5 cockerels and one pullet. The boys are getting pretty ornery so I constructed a chicken tractor for them so they can be housed away from the girls and maybe get along a little better. I have only move 2 so far I’ll get the remaining 3 off the...
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    BYC Member Interview - Tstraub

    Thanks you
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    Wrath's Marans

    I know this wasn’t directed at me but I’ll share my experience. My F1 OEs all had obvious Marans faults from hatch. It might be blue feathers, green or yellow legs, pea comb, or beards but there was always something of if I looked for it. Some of my back crosses this year are starting to look a...
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    Hatch A Long - Mythology (Redo) BBS (Black/Blue/Splash)

    I’ll take Apollo 11 again. Hopefully it will be a successful mission this go around.
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    Rooster chicks

    I don’t currently have any for sale and I’m almost 300 miles from Boonville
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    BCM/OE - Hatch A Long - Mythological

    Sorry to hear that none made it. We’ve all been there. I hope you get better results on the next batch.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    He showed up last night with a new user name after a very long time away. He now goes by @Joemarans
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Yep, ducks do the same thing. When I’m running my boat up the river I often get ducks attempting to get me to chase them. They fly real low to the water splashing around like they can’t take off.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    We get a lot of them around here. I like watching them do their broken wing act to distract predators. This is the first time I have found the nest. They are so camouflaged in the wood mulch
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I found some speckled eggs in the garden today.
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    Wrath's Marans

    There was some discussion about incubating small eggs and I mentioned my Marans have never laid above small size. Then overweight hens was suggested as one possible reason for poor laying
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    Wrath's Marans

    I managed to grab Penny out of a nest box this afternoon. She is the one that lays 2-3 small eggs a week. Her is about 5 1/2 pounds. The scale was bouncing around because she wouldn’t stand still LOL. She feels OK to me but I’m not an expert. I can definitely feel her keel bone when I hold her...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Glad to have you back! You have been missed
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    Wrath's Marans

    It’s been a while since I have really put my hands on either one. They don’t look overweight to me but I know feathers can hide a lot. They do get free access to food 24 hours a day. I feed Kalmbach flock maker 20% protein oyster shells on the side, and some kitchen scraps(mostly vegetables). I...
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