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That happens - especially in places where chicks are often mislabeled or have gotten moved to the wrong bins, etc (it happens a lot in places where the public can access chicks as children are prone to pick them up and then mom/dad tells them to "put that down" and they just put the chick in...

DP is a menace on the track.............jmo

Those are all lovely pullets -- as you can see in the photo above, the difference in the genders is striking and you'd know at this point if they were cockerels.

Yeah - the leg color and clean legs would have knocked that off the list on day 1......:\

X2 -- it is amazing the ways they will find to mate.

Hatchery grade birds are not the result of the careful breeding that maintains breed standards - while single combs are recessive, in a poorly managed breeding program you can end up with single combs in pure bred Wyandotte birds - a good breeder would opt not to breed birds that have these out...

Out of curiosity what was he marked as?

Awww, what a good boy your Finn is! Sounds like your day of grand plans went about as far as mine has -- here's to tomorrow!

Oy, my thumbs are growing weary -- been twiddling them for the last couple of hours. Got up bright and early with a great plan for the day and all I was going to accomplish - then my mom called and said she was 'in the neighborhood' and wanted to stop by (she lives over two hours away and was...

Mmmm, popcorn.........may just have to make a trip down to the local theater later this afternoon and buy me a bag of the good stuff.............. Thank you so much for sharing the news on Rachel, Phil! I have been getting increasingly worried - especially when a recent text to her went...

Ameraucana from Ideal are going to be Easter Eggers -- because Easter Eggers are mixed breed birds there is often a great variance in their appearance as chicks and adults. The irony being that even in their description of the breed the give a nod to the often used misrepresentation of...

Nobody's pinging the roo-dar......Claudia and Josephine are definitely pullets

What? That's a bummer (but not surprising) -- really, though, they've kind of moved themselves along so quickly that it was running out of workable materiel with the girls all being up and out of the house and that having been a central part of the story lines....... X 2

Well, that depends on how long it takes her to notice.........how often does she look at the ducks? Sounds like you made a good call -- good luck with your new buns, hope they breed like rabbits..... To be fair, how would one prepare them for something like a flood of BYC'ers??? Oooh...

X 2 - it's all about routine.

Nasty how - attitude, cleanliness or....? Yes, a cow that is in the routine of being milked at particular time will be impatient as her body will be demanding relief of the pressure of her milk supply. A cow's behavior at milking can vary a lot from cow to cow - some are very "nice milkers"...

I suppose if the owner objected they could always keep the birds contained and safe from the "cruelty"

So, she's a mare, lol. ....

It's good to be back - I've been around here and there (I get so busy answering question posts I end up not having time to do the social side of things), and very busy offline, but the whole conversion presented a good opportunity to slink back into the pond..........

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