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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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    Sexing help - 6 week old White Leghorns and RIR x Isa Browns

    Not sure if it’s the lighting or what but it kinda looks like a lot of males to me too. At 6 weeks I would not expect there to be any pink or red in the combs and the waddles should be barely visible if they were pullets. I think if you wait one more week and then take a few more photos their...
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    New mama at the bottom

    The chicks will know where to go (under mom) when they get cold. So long as there isn’t a blanket of snow on the ground I’d say you can put them out with the others (separated but in view) after this recent cold spell is over. Not sure where you are in MI but it looks like Friday will bring in...
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    Show off Butchered Heritage Type Chickens.

    Butchered this guy the other weekend as I’ll be collecting eggs for hatching soon and don’t want any of his offspring. He is half blue copper maran and half OE mutt. 25 week old, he was smaller than expected at 5lb 12oz before processing and 3lbs 12oz after. Already parted out and fried him up...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    My poor duck has laid 3 double yolkers along with one normal egg in the past 4 days. She needs a break! Currently up to 17 today with more on the way. My little buckeye who is coming out of a late molt finally laid today too. Three on the right are “to be determined” on who laid them but I have...
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    I know but I’ll take whatever hatches, can’t pick the genders on these guys after all! Ideally, if they all hatch I plan to keep all the females and one male. If all I get is a pair I’ll likely keep them together to get fertile eggs and then separate them if a problem arises. All I need is a...
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    I removed 11 more, 2 of which were infertile and the rest looked like quitters (though those 2 cracked and sealed eggs were likely doomed from the start). Maybe @farmer90 was right about the turners but I had to learn the hard way! 6 eggs look promising and two are still questionable...
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    What’s wrong with this egg?

    There can be little bits of tissue that come off the reproductive tract and the body thinks it’s a yolk so it adds the albumen (white) and a shell. Often called fairy or fart eggs. Not terribly common but usually nothing to worry about, happens more often in really old and new layers.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    25 yesterday but 6 where from a hidden nest. Currently 15 today including this whopper of a duck egg @120g. Already confirmed double yolk with candling. Compared to a normal EE egg.
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    ISA Brown - Orange Feet

    Chickens can have all colors of feet/legs depending on breed. Orange/yellow is quite common as is black, slate, white, even blue or greenish.
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    Benadryl to Euthanize Chicken?

    Old thread, looks like someone found it and revived it. While I still say the fastest way is the best way, I'd like to critique my answer as I've gotten lots more experience now from processing dozens of chickens since 2024. Originally I said the broom stick method but after a few botched...
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    2026 breeding plans! (Meaties, egg/feather color)

    Did some family collections on eggs that I’ve been getting. Will add more once I have the “complete set” for the mothers and their daughters. Moms are on the left. Top left is mom’s egg, second photo is her. Best hen for my colored egg project IMO. I’ll be hatching her darker daughter’s eggs...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    The meat bird girls are on strike! I guess they didn’t like being moved to their new pen and are rebelling. I get one or two eggs from them a day. Hopefully they all come into lay in the next couple weeks. Funny enough, I was thinking I’d need another roost bar but last night I saw all 7 girls...
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