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    2026 breeding plans! (Meaties, egg/feather color)

    I’ll be tilting it several times a day or whenever I go by it really. It’ll be a dry hatch so no need to worry about humidity until lockdown. Worked great last time so I expect similar results. If things go as planned, any duds and quitters will be removed and give me more room for setting them...
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    2026 breeding plans! (Meaties, egg/feather color)

    Down to 34 (3 roos 31 hens). Same person who bought the last two wanted the rest and even asks if I had a bantam roo to sell, which as luck would have it Little Man got his time to shine. 80$ later and 8 less birds I’ve finally reached my goal of 30-35 birds. I expect to only get 18-20 eggs a...
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    Culling Towards the Best Flock

    Down to 34 (one being a bantam hen). Took longer than expected but I’ve finally sold the last 8 spares and culled the orange cockerel. Apparently Craigslist is the way to go as I got far more responses to that listing than on the FB group (where the one woman ended up backing out). 9 hens and...
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    Planning to expand my flock....

    Look into Wyandottes, I have 3 and 2 of them follow at my heels and don't fuss too much when I pick them up. I wouldn't say they are very large like brahmas but they are nice and round birds. They've certainly grown on me that's for sure. I was hoping to get a couple more of different colors but...
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    hatching Black Copper Marans and BCM crosses

    White with spots are likely from the RIW hens. If the RIW are dominant white, then crossing dominant white with black typically results in white chicks that can have black spots. I've hatched a handful of white spotted chicks that came from a white American bresse hen and a couple that came...
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    Rooster fertility timeline questions

    I'm doing something similar. I put 7 of my choice hens into a pen for 2ish weeks then added my preferred roo (or cockerel really) and I'll be waiting 2 more weeks before collecting eggs for incubation. I've seen my inexperienced boy breeding a couple of the hens and even 2 of the younger girls...
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    Chick hatched but doesnt seem right

    Sounds like wry neck. Is it keeping its head kinda tucked down between its legs and walking backwards? Wry neck is more or less a deficiency. I can’t remember the finer details so I suggest you do some researching of your own. I treated it successfully with b12 complex and vitamin E liquid...
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    I’ve got pine pellet bedding I’m switching them over to soon. The paper towels were just to help them find the food more easily but that doesn’t seem to be a problem. As for texture, they didn’t seem to have a problem zooming around on it so it must be okay for them to grip. I do the same when...
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    Put them all in a clean bowl inside the incubator with a bit of food before I went to work. They certainly went to town on it while I was gone. The last to hatch looked to have one foot with curled toes but I think they are straighter now than they were. When I got home they all went into the...
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    I’ll have to be content with 5 chicks. 3 hatched on their own and the 2 that pipped at the wrong end need a little help so of course I gave them a hand, just enough so they can kick themselves out. They all seem pretty normal so far but I’ll leave them all in the incubator till the last one...
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    Was getting ready for bed and this one appeared when I was done. Appears to be all yellow down which is interesting. I might move the chicks into a separate bowl so they don’t disturb the other eggs too much.
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    First one to hatch! It zipped and popped out in short manner as I didn’t even see the zipping on this one.
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    Yup I've been weighing all the eggs and keeping track of everyone on the Flockstar app. The LF mix lays the largest eggs on average than any of my current layers, they tend to be around 74g give or take a few. The BBSW and GLW have always laid rather small eggs, right around 53g but they are...
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    Little progress through the night. 5 pips now and one seems to be trying to zip. Blue one has not yet pipped unless it’s on the other side.
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    Squirrels---is there a good food girls will like and squirrels hate? I read that nectarine pits (do not help my cancer...but) contain some poison....

    I’ve been having issues with black and grey squirrels chewing on plastic feed containers, getting in the trailer where I keep bags of feed in and chewing holes, chewing on my plastic feeders, and of course stealing feed. Plus they chewed up wires on the trailer resulting in a new wiring kit. But...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    For future reference on who lays what. Top row left to right is LF mix, light brahma mix, GLW. Bottom row is SLW and BBSW. I’m thinking but not committed to adding one of my colored layers to the meat bird project. I do have a couple big bodied girls with pea combs I can toss in the pen. If...
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    4 pips so far, one is at the pointy end though so I’ll be watching them throughout the night.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    So far 14. Here’s a couple unique ones for the day. The darker one is from a golden cuckoo maran and the other from a dark brahma X blue copper maran. Oddly the long one (81g) appears to be a single yolk but I only candled it so I could be wrong.
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    2026 breeding plans! (Meaties, egg/feather color)

    Down to 42 chickens, sold the sapphire sky and diamond duchess this morning. Also threw Jr. in the breeding pen with the girls I selected for him. I think I’ll start collecting eggs for hatching March 14th. Details for that hatch will be in my other thread, this one will focus more on the...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    Grabbed Jr. and put him with the girls this morning. So far everyone but the barred rock is back to laying. Oddly it seems the SLW’s eggs have shrunk to pullet sized when they used to be 60g+. Also dumped out another bag of leaves since we got a dusting of snow. He doesn’t seem to recognize when...
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