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Breeding / Re: Project Color: Mottled Ameraucana

« on: September 15, 2013, 06:52:59 AM »

I am working on something like a mottled project.  I don't know if there is a separate gene for mottled and mille fleur type patterns.  I'm working on the mille fleur type pattern with more white... like the calico cochin.  I have seen both mottled and mille fleur patterns in Swedish Flower Hens.  I have seen legs with dark pigment, mottled dark pigment, and no pigment. 

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Breeding / Re: Blue Egg Research Report

« on: September 15, 2013, 06:46:37 AM »

Here is another article about the retrovirus:  http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/find-blue-chicken-egg-congrats-your-chicken-has-virus?dom=tw&src=SOC

BTW, Olive Eggers are already a popular fad in California.

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Housing, Health & Hatching / House Pets....?%&@

« on: April 07, 2012, 10:51:19 PM »

Oh, the floor was clean.  She just kept cleaning it.  

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Housing, Health & Hatching / House Pets....?%&@

« on: April 07, 2012, 01:28:54 PM »

I did know a person who kept the birds in the house, but they also got to go outside during the day, most days.  She didn\'t let them out until late morning.  I think she also had some kind of indoor coop, but I saw photos of them free ranging on the kitchen floor.  No diapers.

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Housing, Health & Hatching / 2012 National Agricultural Classification Survey

« on: March 31, 2012, 02:01:29 PM »

Read \"The Hunger Games\".  I know there is a movie out, but I haven\'t seen it.  I read the book.

Even subsistence hunting and gathering is a crime in the book.

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Exhibiting & Promoting / This is concerning...

« on: March 29, 2012, 07:35:55 PM »

feral - \"having returned to an untamed state from domestication\".  

If it is domesticated and in your pasture, it wouldn\'t be considered feral, would it?  I thought feral was referring to escaped animals like cats, horses, and hogs that were running loose and acting wild on public or other people\'s properties.

Truly wild hogs would be native species and be subject to hunting laws.  Feral hogs running loose would NOT require a license, etc. to be hunted.  Anyway, that\'s how I would interpret it.

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Housing, Health & Hatching / Infertility question

« on: March 24, 2012, 03:45:34 PM »

Someone once told me to trim the feathers around the vent - that sometimes the feathers are just too thick and fluffy.

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Breeding / Is this a Silver?

« on: March 24, 2012, 03:43:41 PM »

Very interesting mess of a color!  I wonder if he might have the mottling gene.  He sure has white and black, both.  He also has dark legs!

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Breeding / cuckoo- barred breeders contact me

« on: March 23, 2012, 08:39:23 PM »

Good luck...  
I do like hearing about them on the forum and I appreciate the naysaying.  It gives me information that I will consider, evaluate, and work on.

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Breeding / developing a lemon blue

« on: March 22, 2012, 09:15:52 PM »

For what it\'s worth, I have been working on blue/gold within my black/gold project.

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Breeding / Laced Blue Ameraucana

« on: March 22, 2012, 02:23:55 PM »

I\'m confused.  (I have a coffee cup that says that because someone gave it to me.  huh)

Aren\'t the blue Ameraucana supposed to be laced?

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Breeding / Blue gene

« on: February 03, 2012, 08:36:05 PM »

Could the blue hen be a dark splash?  

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Breeding / HerSHE

« on: February 03, 2012, 08:34:20 PM »

My mind remains open, so open that I believe stuff is falling out and lost forever.  

I have an accidental barred Am cross if anyone is interested in him.  Cuckoo marans and Black/Lav split.  No slate spots but a very light slate undercolor.  (I\'m not working on the barred.)

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Breeding / Blue gene

« on: February 03, 2012, 08:18:52 PM »

I don\'t have a photo of him, but here is my current splash roo that I thought was blue for the longest time.

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Breeding / Blue gene

« on: February 03, 2012, 08:14:32 PM »

I had a very dark blue roo that I thought was black until I looked closer.