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Haha yes! Have mixed feelings about them- never went for short legged breeds in all my decades as a chicken hobbyist. Yet here they are as a big surprise.. Was worried about health, yet they are very healthy, very active- would be great foragers, worried about how'd they do with start of egg laying- someone mentioned problems with that in their dwarfed birds.. found a huge egg in their pen so they apparently have no problems with that- either they have a different dwarf gene or..?
when are your eggs due to hatch?
Well, they certainly are neat (and I know how much you love interesting things to work on in your chickens).
Dock down is on Sunday. The 10 fertile GNH x Tank eggs (form the 12 I set) are all SUPER active and looking very good. The Marans x Goodwin eggs for some reason have lost a massive amount of moisture, so I have them in the hatcher at 65-70% (one had lost as much as 19.5% at day 14). We'll see if any of them make it.
I'm probably going to set the Puppy eggs and the Olive egger x Goodwin eggs this weekend when I lock down the others. Please don't ask me where I'm going to put all these chickens - I'm in denial at the moment...
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