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Aw, thanks! They are pretty sweet.

I'll update in a couple of weeks and see if we are any further to guessing!

Thanks! I'll see if I can get a better pic of the slightly suspicious mille fleur when I bring them in later. Good to know about the feathering too. I was thinking 2's comb looked suspicious but I did read something about rose combs in wyandottes often being redder so am holding out hope! We'd...

Bump!

Absolutely will give it lots more time - this is more out of curiosity than anything else. Here they are as attachments. Edited to put them in the right order and added the breeds. Chick 1: Lemon Pekin Chick 2: Gold Laced wyandotte Chick 3: Buff wyandotte Chick 4: Mille fleur pekin...

Hello, I have seven chicks - all 5 weeks tomorrow. I've posted some pictures of them below to see if you can help me sex them. As they are a mixture of different breeds and colours it's v hard to compare them against each other. Also, though they are all from the same hatch, three came to us 2...

One of my 5 chicks, 2 weeks old yesterday, is very unwell. She's gaping/mouth breathing, eyes closed a lot, lethargic, spends more time under the lamp, does an odd cough/sneeze/chirp noise and I have seen a bit of head shaking (though not much). I took her to the vet yesterday who was perplexed...

So, after a pretty disastrous first hatch I thought we were having no chicks hatch. So we bought 4 chicks on Wednesday evening (just hatched - the breeder turned the incubator off and put them all in brooder for first time while we were there). One of our incubated eggs then did hatch...

Patience is not one of my virtues but I'm learning! I won't touch these ones again for a few days but, for future reference, how do you water candle?

No experience other than my own of today (see 'catastrophic error' thread). Have no movement at all at day 21. Candled, egg sacks smaller than expected and no movement of chicks so decided non-viable. Opened one it is was very much alive just a couple of days behind where it should be. Possibly...

Thanks so much - fingers firmly crossed!

And really sorry to hear about the parakeet. Poor thing and poor you - it's horrible!

Thanks very much JaeG. The baby who is out has already died I'm afraid - but I don't think there's anything I could have done to get it on its feet with all that yolk still to absorb. The others are back in the incubator (hidden upstairs so as not to get kids hopes up again) and my plan is to...

Thanks very much! These are chicks not ducklings by the way (mix of light sussex and silkie/bantams). We are already drowning in duck eggs! :)

Hello, I am currently trying to hatch out my first set of eggs (with the help of my 4 and 7 year old who are heavily emotionally invested) to start our own little flock for our smallholding. I brooded ducks from day olds earlier this year but this is my first experience with incubating any...

Thanks very much! They actually didn't go under it at all last night as far as I can tell. I've raised it up more, taken the skirt off and just accepted they are going to do as they wish. Luckily the weather is warming up. If I see them dog-piled I'll get a heat lamp.

Bump! Thanks for your help.

Hi there, I'm new to poultry keeping and hoping you can help me with some questions. I collected 3 khaki campbell ducklings two days ago. I was expecting day-olds but was told they were actually 6 days old, so 8 days old now. I have a brooder in our porch with one of these heat lamp...