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    AinaWGSD's Project 365

    Day 62 I committed the grave crime od disturbing a cat this evening when I had to get up and make dinner. But I was apparently forgiven, since I wasn't back on the couch two minutes before he resumed snuggles this time sitting on my chest.
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    9 week old Mottled silkie Roo or hen?

    I'm absolutely terrible with silkies, but I've never seen a comb that RED at 9 weeks on a pullet of any breed.
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    Looking for crème legbars in NS

    NS=Nova Scotia? Congrats on finding what you were looking for
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    AinaWGSD's Project 365

    Day 61 Burned part of my lunch in the microwave today :eek: It was just a piece of tomato, and once I mixed it up it wasn't noticeable. But microwave charred tomato is a new one for me!
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    Shipped eggs super dissapointed!!

    Except that they do. When you buy eggs from the hatchery website you have to pick a shipping date just like when you order live chicks. Automation is certainly an advantage that large hatcheries have over smaller sellers, and I will admit that I had forgotten about that being a thing that...
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    Shipped eggs super dissapointed!!

    I feel like this might be a bit of a difference between small scale breeders and large hatcheries. Murray McMurray has thousands, possibly millions of customers and it would be unreasonable to expect them to check the weather forecast at every delivery address they're shipping to. It's...
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    AinaWGSD's Project 365

    Day 60 Husband made bread pudding for desert tonight!
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    Unexpected chick colors

    Mine came from Chicken Scratch Poultry, they got theirs from Greenfire Farms (though Greenfire doesn't seem to have them anymore) who imported them from Europe. Chicken Scratch is only about 2 hours from me so we were able to pick them up instead of having them shipped.
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    Another Hatch-a-Long! Western Theme - Yeehaw!

    Adorable pics! You should definitely enter some in the cutest baby fowl contest
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    Unexpected chick colors

    Not yet. They're still too little for me to see clearly (I've been putting off making an appointment with the ophthalmologist for a few months now 😬 I really need new glasses)
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    Shipped eggs super dissapointed!!

    Shipping eggs and shipping live chicks are totally different ball games. It's like comparing basketball to lacrosse, or football and golf, it just isn't comparable at all. Day old chicks are magnitudes less fragile than embryonic material, so sellers are able to have guaranteed live chick...
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    Unexpected chick colors

    Looking at all the eggs on my counter this morning I'm 99% sure the Malines lay eggs that are more tinted than brown. This hatch did not have any of the lighter tinted eggs, which makes me think all of the brown eggs I set were from buckeye pullets. Which doesn't tell me anything about whether...
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    Another Hatch-a-Long! Western Theme - Yeehaw!

    I'm sorry about Billy. I'm not entirely certain what proper positioning with the head under the wing looks like in the shell either. But that looks like emergency tornado positioning, with his head between his legs, so I'd definitely say he was malpositioned. Congratulations on the rest of the...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    That is a tough one. My BYM hatching eggs i purchase from someone who has lots of chickens and happens to have roosters so she just charged me what she charges all her regular (eating) egg customers. I feel like I'd probably charge a dollar per egg but I also don't know what a fair price is...
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    Another Hatch-a-Long! Western Theme - Yeehaw!

    Congratulations! They're precious! Your Ancona mix chicks are black because mottling is recessive, both parents have to contribute a gene for the chicks to be mottled. Ancona are mottled black, and black is dominant over other colors, so black makes sense for this mix
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