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    These are BBS (Blue, Black, Splash) Marans - Are they all cockerels?

    Well, poop!
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    updated hen or roo?

    Guessing he. That's a pretty big comb for a 6 week old...
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    These are BBS (Blue, Black, Splash) Marans - Are they all cockerels?

    I got three straight run BBS Marans and unfortunately they're all looking like males to me. They're 9-10 weeks old. The last one is only just getting tail feathers and I had originally thought this one was the only male, but now I'm second guessing myself...
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    Hen with swollen abdomen

    She's almost 2 years and suddenly over Christmas break her belly got swollen. She since has acted with lower energy but she eats and drinks, poops, her comb is red. She waddles around like a penguin. I thought at first she was egg bound, but obviously since she's still with us thats not the...
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    Chickens not laying - I've tried everything!

    I've been dealing with hens not laying regularly for more than 6 months! I went from getting 6 eggs a day to 4 eggs a day to 3 eggs (then I had a broody mama) then 2 eggs, then 0-1, now none. It seems like maybe something else is going on. Here's a breakdown of their recent history The...
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    Chickens not laying - I've tried everything!

    I've got 7 hens of varied breeds (Americana, Buff Orpington, silver sebright, d'uncle mille fleur, blue maran mix, red leghorn mix), they're not more than 1.5years old. They haven't laid well for about 6 months, I haven't had eggs in over a month! At first I thought it was their food, so I...
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    Eggs hatching at 22-25 days under a bantam mama

    Occasionally some are out and I place them back under her, but she's not the friendliest bantam, so she will occasionally peck me if I get too close! I guess that could be a reason for them not hatching on time, they've gotten a bit cold. The one time I kicked her off the nest to get all the...
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    Eggs hatching at 22-25 days under a bantam mama

    I gave her 6, but on occasion she kept as many as 6 additional eggs from the other chickens lays. They all seem to prefer to lay in the nest box she's in rather than the empty one. Before her broodiness they all laid in the same box each day, even doubling up if they were laying at the same...
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    Eggs hatching at 22-25 days under a bantam mama

    My first time broody mama has been sitting on her eggs 25 days now and has had 3 chicks hatch, with 2 surviving (hatched at 22, 23 and 24 days). This morning there is evidence of another beginning to hatch. I'm wondering how normal this is for them to hatch so "late". I set them under her on...
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    Deformed beak and under-developed pullet

    We have a chicken with this same issue! We've clipped her beak once and it bled a bunch so we haven't done it again. She's about 9-10 weeks old and is definitely smaller than the other pullets. I posted the question as to what the deformity is called but no luck yet! Here's the thread...
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    Weird broken beak?

    [VIDEO] So we have this chick, she's approximately 6 weeks old, we've been trying to figure out what's wrong with her beak. At first it looked like her top beak was growing too quickly but now we think that the bottom one may have broken because the visible part has not grown in weeks...
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