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    Hobby hatching addicts-- where do all of your chicks go?

    They all taste like chicken, no matter how large or small they are.
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    Mystery Hamburg Chick

    Silver is considered dominant over gold. If a cockerel has both the silver and the gold gene, he looks silver when he is young. Then when he grows up, he tends to get a yellowish tone in his feathers, not really gold or silver but in-between, and often has red leakage in his shoulders (but not...
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    Mystery Hamburg Chick

    I think it might just be a Hamburg chick. They can have different amounts of dark and light coloring when they hatch, and it might be the dark end of the range of possibilities. Regardless of what it looks like, please do update when the chick grows some feathers, and maybe again when it has...
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    Scammed! (UPDATE)

    You may want to make a post there too, telling what you eventually learned, maybe with a link to this thread. That way if anyone finds that thread in the future, they can know the final result too. They are probably a cross that has no name other than what the hatchery chooses to call them...
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    sport marans:

    You are counting time from when she was separated until you started collecting the eggs for hatching, right? I agree that 8 weeks certainly should be long enough to avoid wrong-father situations. I would think so, but there is obviously something weird going on here :idunno Are you seeing...
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    sport marans:

    Recessive white should give you pure white chicks. White with black flecks is usually from Dominant White, which turns black to white but can be a bit leaky. If your hen produced chicks with Dominant White, then their father would have to have the Dominant White gene, which would cause white in...
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    Uses for boiled eggs?

    I like them sliced on top of a green salad. Or, if I'm feeling lazy, I just take the shells off the eggs, squirt a little ranch dressing on them, and skip the lettuce & other veggies. You can put a few in potato salad.
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    sport marans:

    It typically works better to start a new thread and include some pictures. Also, when you use abbreviations, please write it out in full at least once. In this case, BCM is a common abbreviation for Black Copper Marans and Blue Copper Marans and Blue Cuckoo Marans. Depending on which ones you...
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    New Chicks Have Arrived!! Yellow is the extra?

    Every "blue" egg I have ever seen, looked to me like it was really a greenish-blue. That may say more about how I describe colors than it says about the actual color of the eggs ;) The usual understanding is that the eggshell is either blue or white through most of its thickness, and then it...
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    Hen with very pale comb for months

    You basically turn him upside down and part the feathers to see his vent (look at color/size/texture), and feel with your fingers for the tips of two bones that are below the vent (close together, just below the vent, is not laying. Further apart and further down is laying.) Nothing too...
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    Hen with very pale comb for months

    You could try this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/ It can help if you check a few that you know if they are laying or not, and after that it's easier to recognize what you are seeing/feeling on the others. A hen with a big red comb is...
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    Straight comb with green egg

    With that cross, you should get about a 50/50 split of chicks that inherit the blue egg gene, and chicks that do not inherit the blue egg gene. With both parents having single (straight) comb, all chicks will have single comb. Yes, there was a very small chance of getting single comb/blue egg...
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    Dose cracked corn keep chickens warm

    Digesting food does help the chickens stay warm. Corn is better than nothing at all (starving chickens do get cold). No-one is arguing with that. The real question would be whether digesting corn is better than digesting other feed, like layer pellets or all-flock feed or whatever else the main...
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    Is overall health tied to breed?

    It feels like half the time I'm the one asking what an abbreviation means, and the other half of the time I'm the one telling someone else what an abbreviation means :D
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    Is overall health tied to breed?

    White Faced Black Spanish (a breed of chicken) Infections Bronchitis Virus
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