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    Hawks hawks hawks....

    I highly recommend you don’t shoot a hawk or eagle. “shooting a hawk is a federal offense in the United States. All hawks, along with owls, eagles, and falcons, are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). Here are the key details regarding this federal law: The Law: The MBTA...
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    Hawk Hunting Chickens?

    What kind of hawk? Do your roosters do anything? I had a hawk attack recently and the rooster quickly chased it away.
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    Thinking about switching from a manual coop door to an automatic one – what should I watch out for?

    Pullet shut doors work great. It was the biggest investment in my chickens so far, but well worth it. https://chickendoors.com/product/standard-right-pullet-shut-door/?srsltid=AfmBOooqw-YeHT305Wx-p5iLpb0Yc4nqeQSuels2awdeqyWBd2dtEBFq
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    Feather color genetics

    Thanks. Here he is this morning. He’s got a very upright stance. More so than either of his parents.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Now that the days are getting longer I’m starting to get more eggs. The one in the middle has a nice round shape and is dark and glossy.
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    That dark one by your thumb looks like a winner for backcrossimg back to marans.
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    Ok good, that’s what would hope to get back crossing an olive egger to a Marans. I did breed my f1 olive egger rooster back to the pure marans… and also to some pink, green, olive, and blue eggers. I should get a nice variety of greens/olives, and browns from all these birds come spring time...
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    So what’s the lineage of this pullet? I love the egg color and speckling.
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    The rooster is an olive egger. 1/2 BCM and 1/2 whiting true blue. About 5 of those chicks in the roosting picture are backcrosses. The other 20 or so are from Easter egger hens. Unfortunately it looks like all but 1 or 2 of the backcrosses are pullets, the rest are cockerels. Here’s one of the...
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    Have you back crossed the Marans? I’m curious what the eggs will look like from the backcrossed pullets. I have a few chicks from a backcross, but they won’t be laying until spring. Here’s the rooster I used, and the second pic is some of his chicks
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I always enjoy my marans eggs. Anybody on here have backcrossed marans? I’d like to see what the 3/4 marans eggs look like. I bred this 1/2 Black Copper Marans/ 1/2 whiting blue rooster back to the pure black copper Marans hens and have a few young birds out of them.
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    ChipDrop

    I got a massive drop of mulch and logs from them about a year ago. Must’ve been 25 yards. Mix of oak, elm, hackberry, juniper etc…. Some big logs. Enough mulch to completely cover my front and back yards and then some. Took me a couple days of back breaking work with a pitch fork and wheel...
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    Here’s some pics of the young birds. Tell me if you see any obvious pullets. I seem to have a a lot of young cockerels with straight combs.
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    Can anyone clarify about humidity specifically for BCM’s? I’m on day 21 and keep seeing these posts that differ from the instructions on my incubator.

    My incubator is tough to nail down temp and humidity, but I try to keep it around 25-35%RH during the first part of incubation then try to set it around 50% during lockdown. Then when hatching starts it will spike into the 70s-80s. Good luck on the hatch btw !
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    Here’s a video of the newest chicks
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