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    Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

    16 weeks for the chicks I hatched. Just saw the blue EE pullet hanging out in a nest box. Here she is with her mom Buckeye Diamond duchess, nice red comb Crested cream legbar, she is smaller than expected Golden cuckoo maran Meyer freebie EE Bantam cockerel who has been getting bullied by...
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    Incubating Shipped Turkey Eggs (Tips?)

    7 weeks old now. Letting them mingle with the chickens as they will eventually end up cohabitating at some point. So far they know to leave the Roos alone but the white one does like to chase around the younger birds. Both of them were trying to gobble when a metal grinder was being used. I...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    I was weighing my group but once they hit about 6lbs they struggled too much and I didn't want to stress them out. At some point I'd like to make a sort of cloth sling with handles on either end that I can wrap a bird up in and hook to a hanging scale for easier and less stressful weighing...
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    Ten weeks Old - Pullets?

    Both look to be girls to me.
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    Twin Pheasant Egg (DOA)

    I know it happens but I just find it interesting to see it in a game species. Chickens and ducks, even quail I’m not too surprised to see but turkeys and pheasants it seems much less common.
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    Twin Pheasant Egg (DOA)

    We have some people who raise and release ring neck pheasants down the road from us and the kids found some marked eggs that were tossed just a bit off the road. I assume they failed to hatch but I got curious and candled them, 2 blanks and 1 with something inside. No movement and no veins so I...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    I wasn’t too sure how dominant/recessive feathered legs were so I figured best not to go off that. I should look into it though, I’ve got a couple pullets with clean legs who I was hoping were from the maran but now I’m second guessing it 😅 This would help me sort through them though and figure...
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    Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

    Added some fresh straw and new nest box liners. Took a few photos of the whoever was within range. My own chicks are 15 weeks today while the hatchery chicks are about 14 weeks old. The OE sisters. Silver looks a bit ratty as her feathers grow out. White EE daughter and BBS red laced W...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    Chunky next to her new boyfriend, he was the best behaved of the bunch and I prefer a shorter comb over a single comb. I haven’t seen the blue copper maran trying to romance Chunky but he has pushed the cockerel off of her. The cockerel is from a SLW hen (also shown) and either a BJG roo or the...
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    Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

    Down to 59. The 2 cockerels were smarter than the last ones and I had to bring out the pellet gun. EE X BJG- 4lbs 5oz—> 2lb 7oz Green band barred- 4lbs 3oz—> 2lb 5oz I got out the frozen BJG rooster and hen to can them with the 2 cockerels. Some comparison photos, first is the BJG rooster...
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    Help with breed please

    Best guess is a blue and a black copper maran. Do you happen to have pictures of the eggs they lay?
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    Hatching Olive Egger

    Got any photos of your roo and perhaps his father? So your rooster may carry the blue egg gene and be able to pass it down to his children. It’s a wait and see game unless you want to spend money on having them tested. There are a couple websites you can find that will test you birds for the...
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    Hatching Olive Egger

    All the eggs you incubated were colored right? If the only rooster was the New Hampshire red then the odds of getting a hen who lays colored eggs is either 50% or 100% depending on if the mother carries one blue egg gene or two. If you hatched any brown eggs then you will be getting brown...
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    Baby hatched in raised coop question

    How high is it? My coop is about 24in off the ground and both my broodies and their chicks figured it out pretty well. One kept her chicks inside for about a week (I gave them food and water) and the other moved her brood to a lean-to connected to the main coop for bed time until they were old...
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    Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

    Current head count is now 61 as I sold the bresse hen to a family friend who wanted a buddy for her single hen. Will be down to 59 very soon as the barred cockerel is asking for it, he's pulling out clumps of feathers on pullets and going after the bantam cockerel. I've had enough! I left the...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Took the poults out while I fertilized the garden. They enjoyed themselvesz The first winter (spaghetti I think) squash flower was a female. Unfortunately all I could find was a male zucchini flower so we’ll see if it is pollinated in a few days.
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    Incubating Shipped Turkey Eggs (Tips?)

    Started letting them follow me around the yard. They are much easier to wrangle than chickens. Saw both of them strutting so guessing both are boys but time will tell. They are starting to get the warty growths on their necks now too.
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    Who’s laying the egg?

    New layers will have a wonky schedule where they lay whenever during the day, mine tend to mostly lay around 11-2 with some earlier or later. I would just check them several times a day and see who is sitting where then come back later to see if they laid an egg yet. Some people use lipstick...
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    Future plans for 2025! Breeding for large meaties, barring, lacing and EE

    Bantam is broody again, she will not get to hatch any more till spring unless Chunky pops out some eggs in a timely manner. I've made up my mind on the three remaining cockerels and will be culling the barred and EE boys when I get around to it. EE cockerel is looking to be taking after the...
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    Is this a raccoon skull?

    Yes it is, I have a couple along with a variety of other skulls.
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