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Is anyone well versed in raising d'Anvers? We have ordered 60 this spring. The first 15 all died within a week. Only two other babies of the other 15 ordered died, a bantam cochin and a sebright. We only have 3 left of the second order of 15. Didn't lose any other other 15 ordered. Yesterday...

I ordered from Purely Poultry and the chicks arrived the last week of February. I ordered 10 Belgian quail d'Anvers for my daughter and 5 self blue bantam Cochins for me. What arrived were the Cochins and 10 mystery birds. Instead of tiny black babies with brown faces, we got white babies. I...

Of two chicks in question, the darker one passed. The lighter one, who appeared to be a cockrel since his comb was red at the weeks, is still a mystery. The comb and wattles have not grown a bit. At 3 1/2 months he is still tiny and had coloring I don't recognize, assuming he's an OEGB. He came...

I'm pretty good at knowing what is what in the bantam bin, but these two have me stumped. We choose them because of the golden heads with a blue stripe down the middle. The feathers are growing in differently, one with much more white. The darker one is also a good but smaller. They make some...

My daughters little Serama hen got beat up by the other girls because they all have chicks. She does not. I found her in the nest box. She can't stand and instead of her legs being parallel, one leg angles toward the other making them overlap. Can a dislocation or slipped tendon be fixed? I...

My eggs are on day 15. I have a separate thermometer and hydrometer in the incubator because I don't trust my incubator. For the first 12 days I kept raising the temp because the inside thermometer would not get to 100. On day 12, my daughter and I candled a few eggs. We didn't want to do all 56...

I have three d'Uccle boys, a Millie, a porcelain and a white. The porcelain and Millie are two years old and the white is almost a year. Of the three only the Millie has spurs. They are on the short, thick side and very pointy. My question is: should a d'Uccle rooster have spurs or not? I have...

My daughter noticed that her pair of d'Anvers have been making a strange neck motion. After watching them, I noticed a young cream legbar doing the same thing. I was able to get a video of it. Could this be early wry neck? It doesn't seem likely that the birds would come down with it all at...

I have quite a few bantam Cochins. My older birds are a year and a half. My younger group is 7-8 months. In the younger group I have 11 colors, four of them frizzled. My only red frizzle girl, Okra had always been one of my favorites. Her mahogany red feathers curled in the perfect way. She is...

There have been evenings that we have heard what we assumed were hawks around our yard. Once my daughter heard them in the morning, so everyone had to stay in the pen. Once in a while we would see a hawk fly over, circling, looking for prey. One day we had a noisy crow that would not stop making...

Back story: We put eggs in the new incubator, along with a small handful of bantam eggs from my girls. I candled at day 15. Most eggs were too dark to see in to, some of the bantam eggs were no go. One we saw baby kicking and really showing off. Day 21- nothing. Day 23- still nothing. Day 25, I...

Our main boy Ed, had been feeling very bad but is improving after everyone in the flock was on tylan for respiratory issues. His color had come back to his comb and wattles but the comb isn't standing all the way back up yet. Now I'm noticing some of the other boys combs have darkness to some of...

My daughters six month old Serama boy started limping a few days ago. There is no bumble foot sore or scab, but we have soaked in Epsom salt anyway. He now doesn't seem to be able to walk at all and puts his wings out to balance himself on the ground. I'm worried about Marek's, but his skin...

Hi all. I'm incubating for the first time in over 25 years. I bought an incubator with turners this time. Checked to make sure temps and humidity were correct and set the eggs in. It turns them every two hours. When it tilts the eggs to the left they appear to be at a good angle. When it tilts...

I hope y'all can help. I have a respiratory bug going through my flock. Everyone is on tylan after a trip to the vet with the worst one. I'm seeing results, but two birds have something else going on. I'll post about the pullet in another post. My Millie Fleur roo is really not doing well. He is...

Hello all you awesome chick ID-ers. We got these at a TSC thinking they were partridge silkies. As they started to get their feathers, they are not silkied, they are flat. Black straight comb. Plus, in our excitement, we didn't realise the legs are clean.

Hi all, I have four partridge bantam Cochins. Three are from the farm store and one I purchased from an individual. None of the three act like cockrels, but two look like cockrels by their feather color. This is the one I bought at 5 months as a girl Those are male saddle feathers, correct...

We came home and little penguin was caught in the fence. Her wing looks inside out. There is no broken skin. Im afraid to try to flip it back right side out as I don't want to make anything worse. What can I do?

This is Cricket, named for this sound she makes when I'm holding her and she is relaxed/sleeping/?? My daughter asked if she's snoring. It is the cutest thing and makes my heart melt every time she does it. She's an EE and has a beautiful matching cockrel mate named Winter. They are very bonded...