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    Lavender Araucana - Pullet or Cockeril?

    hello we have hatched 6 Lavender Araucanas, they are 3 month old now. none are showing too much comb or wattles but most have quite big head feathers and look a bigger bird from the others that have less head feathers and are more sleek and smaller .... how can we tell which ones are roos...
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    Sick Chicken - ideas please

    Hi, thanks for the reply. I bought blue leghorn hatching eggs from a breeder and ended up with blue splash, white and black as well as her. note the color of her legs is yellow, not here to argue but I thought yellow legs were for leghorns only? Anyway, internal laying was the only thing I could...
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    Sick Chicken - ideas please

    Hi, one of our leghorn chickens has been acting strange recently, a bit lethargic and often standing off on her own. shes still eating and drinking fine and her poop looks totally normal but i suspect she hasn't laid for some time. she looks a bit heavy in the rear and has some poop stuck to...
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    Does anyone else use a Janoel incubator?

    Hi, I've got a Janoel-10 incubator but have lost the instructions... just wondering does anyone know if there is a way to re-calibrate the thermostat? I've got it set at 39.5 which seems to be the highest it will go but also got another thermometer in there and it's only reading 35.6...
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    Golden Laced Wyandotte Thread!

    Thanks, what I feared and the breeder also has confirmed Luckily the breeder has a swap/buyback agreement for any roos customers cant keep
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    Golden Laced Wyandotte Thread!

    Hi, comments please on if I have 1 rooster or 2... the one on the right has started to crow (if you can call his squawk crowing ) they're 10 weeks old
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    Leghorn Thread

    Hello, below are some photos of our 7 leghorn chicks at 5 1/2 weeks old I'm new to Leghorns so was wondering if some of you with experience could say what you think we have in regards to number of Hens and Roosters? Colours we have are 3 blue, 2 black and 2 splash From what I can see, only one...
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    Help! How do we care for abandoned newly hatched muscovies?

    I would keep them warm till night fall then put them right under one of your duck (back with their siblings) once she's settled down for the night, watch for a while to see they don't get kicked out but hopefully then she won't even notice They can live for a couple of days without food as...
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    Pictures Of Your Little Ducklings!!

    1 and a half weeks old but still a bit confused about what I've got?? never thought I'd need to ask that question but.... Here are the parents, does anyone think the lighter colour one (female) could have Appleyard in her?
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    Old fashioned Broody Thread for Ducks

    We will do, did you see the pic's I put on here? https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/781292/pictures-of-your-little-ducklings/230 post #237
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    Old fashioned Broody Thread for Ducks

    Really well but I have to admit our attention has mostly been taken by these last 2... they've got mum though
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    Old fashioned Broody Thread for Ducks

    Couple of options I think, 1) Where she was nesting was where all our ducks sleep at night which hasn't been a problem to her until the very last week in which our 2 Muscovy boys have suddenly become very interested in the opposite sex, the day the ducklings hatched and before I could...
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    Old fashioned Broody Thread for Ducks

    I guess time will tell, if it's female and it lay's like it's mother it'll be great... In the mean time they're so much fun!! the yellow one has such a comical look, it looks so innocent and inquisitive especially with it's dark chocolate eyes, looks like a little mouse from front on
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    Old fashioned Broody Thread for Ducks

    Well, this is what came out of the 2 live eggs....!! How does the yellow one come about?? there were 2 more yellow's and 4 brown's in the eggs that died I strongly suspect the mother actually has a lot of silver Appleyard but she's got dark legs and olive beak and has laid 60 eggs in 60...
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    The khaki-Campbell duck Thread !!!!!!!!

    can't wait!!
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