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    Belgian Watermaal

    Going into lockdown and unfortunately the results are pretty bad, I had some issues with humidity early on in the process and it lead to many of the eggs quitting. Of the 14 eggs set only 1 developed, it was from Chucky and Owlet so we'll see what color this little one ends up being. Honestly as...
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    Bald Headed Chick

    I saw this bird on Facebook, it looks really interesting! Like others have mentioned it could be a spontaneous mutation which could be really interesting to try to isolate. If possible you should keep breeding the parents and see if you can recreate it.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I use a plate for mine, I have three different brands because some family friends gave me theirs when they got out of birds. I like the TSC Producers Pride one, it's for sure the easiest to clean out of the three when the little nuggets decide to explore on top of it.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I worry about that happening in the NR 360 expressly having bantams so I always put a piece of shelf liner down at lockdown, it's worked pretty well for me so far.
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    Silkied D’Uccles Project

    I'm just seeing this but I can't wait to see what you create this year!
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    Belgian Watermaal

    After many setbacks my pens are officially set up with birds in them! No pictures since it's super rainy and overcast today and the light in there is terrible but the first two pairings are set up. In pen 1 we have Terran and Derby and in pen 2 we have Chucky and Owlet. I'll give it a few weeks...
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    Belgian Watermaal

    Mother nature decided to keep throwing curveballs at me so I didn't end up getting my pens set up until today but I'll be putting birds in them tonight and will finally get to start collecting eggs in a few weeks for this season!
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    16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    I tried a different turner with this batch and I'm not sure if that's what caused it but I didn't have any eggs end up developing all the way.
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    16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Our eggs can be SensorPush buddies! I think you're the first person besides myself I've ever seen use one.
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    16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    8 eggs set, hens choice Watermaal and d'Anvers.
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    16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    I've decided to do a fertility hatch from my Belgians since I keep having to put off setting up breeding pens so I'll be setting some eggs from my Watermaal and d'Anvers for the hatch-a-long!
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    Vermont

    The Vermont Bird Fanciers club hosts most of the swaps, I think. they have the list posted in their FB group but I'm not sure if it's official yet.
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    Belgian Watermaal

    Looking back it's interesting how much my plans changed. I'm going to be setting up breeding pens today and tomorrow and the pairings I've ended up coming up with and even the birds I planned to keep are so different from what I said before. My focus this year is on increasing the number of...
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    What is the current interest in Barbu de Watermaels?

    Are you wanting to breed towards the SOP? That will impact the advice you get. It looks like all your birds are quail which is one of the more popular colors.
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    Biodiverse Polyculture (USDA 8a Zone Pasture) - sounds better than "My Acres of Weeds"

    No advice since I'm in zone 4a so our areas are very different but here's hoping more comes back then you expect in the spring.
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