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    Ainawgsd's farm chickens

    The auto pop door arrived today! Now they can come and go as they please during daylight hours.
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    Sex linked chickens

    Yes, a RIR rooster over a dark brahma hen would create sex linked chicks. However, the pattern might make it more difficult to determine if the chick down is silver or gold
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    Need 9 Feather patterns

    Let's see how many I can think of (granted, some of this depends on how you're defining "pattern") 1. Solid/self 2. Barring (barred or cuckoo) 3. Laced 4. Partridge/Penciled (partridge on silver base) 5. Mottled 6. Transverse pencilling/autosomal barring 7. Tolblunt (lacing + mottled) 8...
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    Hatching Olive Egger

    If I'm reading the original post correctly, all of your chickens (including the rooster) are from easter eggers mixed with a new Hampshire red rooster. It's really unlikely that you have the genetics for dark olive or olive eggs in your current flock if that's the case. You would need to bring...
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    Open Contest Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

    Entry #1 garden phlox
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    How do you determine the gender of these 1.5 month old chicks?

    #1 At this age, you can't. Male specific skinny, pointed saddle and hackle feathers don't start coming in until about 12 weeks. Before that, both male and female chicks will have rounded feathers. #2 Some fast maturing hens will be darker than slower developing combs. But the combs in the...
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    Open Contest 2026 BYC Calendar Photo Contest - We Need Your Pictures!

    For your consideration My broody olive egger Limu is not happy about being kicked off the nest!
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    The Sullivan Six

    Limu is broody...again
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    Hi. I am a new chicken owner. Have 9, 2 sapphire gems which i think both are roos. 7 goldlace wyandottes. I've heard all hens, but not sure????

    I agree, the wyandottes all look like pullets. The sapphire gems are throwing me though. Those are very large very red combs and wattles for 11 weeks. If I knew nothing about them but their age I would be certain they were male. But, like @MROO said, sapphire gems are sex linked with the males...
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    Hens/roos with the funniest or funest names

    Lady Amalthea is named after the unicorn from the last unicorn And Limu is named after the emu from the liberty mutual commercials
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    Ainawgsd's farm chickens

    I know, right?!
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    Ainawgsd's farm chickens

    The malines are getting big. The one with the shorter tail seems particularly calm. He wasn't quite tidbitting this morning, but I watched him pick carrot slices out of the mash trough and put them on the ground and allow smaller chicks to have them. I even watched a buckeye snatch one directly...
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    Broody hen utterly resistant

    If she's a particularly large hen the wire might be an issue, but a smaller to average sized hen should be fine. I feel your pain, 3 of my 5 hens have tried to go broody on me (not all qt once, thankfully). The dog crate with a 2x4 for perching worked beautifully for 2 of them, but that 3rd hen...
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    ToMAYto ToMAHto grow-along

    Picture of Apollo from this morning. Husband has taken a shine to her, so later this week I'll be setting up a pen within the run and we'll bring her back to town to join The Sullivan Six. Wish us all lots of luck integrating her, we'll need it!
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    Ainawgsd's farm chickens

    Got the fence up last night in the rain. This morning we opened up the coop and let them out! They were not at all sure about this One brave soul testing the waters Then everyone else found their courage! Well, almost everyone Are you sure it's safe?
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    Accidental Sexlink?

    Yes. Assuming the mom is the hen in the bottom picture, you have red sexlinks. Silver is carried on the Z chromosome, so when you breed a gold rooster (your buff orp) to a silver (in this case silver laced) hen the male offspring will inherit the silver Z chromosomes from the hen and a gold Z...
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    What breed is this TS roo?

    White legs and mottled could be a speckled Sussex. I'd be more certain of that guess if he were closer to 12, 14, 16 weeks.
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    Fish Thread

    Got a new betta! I haven't named him yet, but I'm considering Taki.
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    Hello! Moving to Plainfield, IL and excited to be able to keep chickens!

    Yeah, I would contact whoever is in charge of the permits for clarification about whether heating is required or if it's just that  if you plan to have heat or anything that runs on electricity you're required to have an independent source (ie not an extension cord). Requiring heating seems like...
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    Post 4th of July pics- or parade pics here

    Thanks! I do my own nails, mostly with nail stamping. It's a lot of fun!
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