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    Rooster can't walk. Nutritional deficiency?

    1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Marans/Olive-Egger mixed breed Rooster, will be 2 years old in 2 months, thinner than his normal but is gaining weight now that his food intake is being micromanaged. 2) What is the...
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    Barred Splash? Unusual Barred Blue? Vitiligo? - Why is this Roo turning white?

    The flock that my chicks came from consisted of Marans (Black Copper, Wheaten, and Birchen), easter eggers, Crested Cream Legbars, olive eggers, California Whites, Wyandottes (I don't know what color varieties), and I know the "big boss" rooster was a Blue Ameraucana. The lady also had Silkies...
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    Barred Splash? Unusual Barred Blue? Vitiligo? - Why is this Roo turning white?

    Hello! I've got an interesting 11 month old Rooster that started off speckled dark gray, and has gradually gotten whiter and whiter as he's grown. He is a barnyard mix, so I know there's no SOP to compare him to, but I can't seem to find anything quite like him. I have photos of him as he's...
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    Sexing help - 11 weeks old - Crossbreds

    So 11 weeks ago I got 31 straight-run chicks. MOST of them are obvious roos (just my luck), plus three that I'm confident are pullets. There are 11, though, that I just don't know! For most of them, their tails seem to say roo but their faces seem to say pullet. Help a first-timer out? 😊 The...
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    Weekly Updates (31 chicks!)

    Week 3 (and a half) update! I had planned to do this on Saturday... but other things kept coming up. So instead I spent Wednesday/Thursday replacing bands and bribing the squirrelly feral ones with scrambled eggs. This weekend is supposed to be in the mid 60's, so they'll finally have a chance...
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    Weekly Updates (31 chicks!)

    2 week update! Most of the babies are getting shoulder feathers, and several are getting body feathers now as well, so they are starting to look a little like scraggly pre-teens. There has only been a single minor injury (a pecked tail feather from #4 to #30) and not a single instance of pasty...
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    Weekly Updates (31 chicks!)

    These pictures were snagged from video (because these babies just don't stand still) last night at about one week old. Some were braver than others about their mugshots being taken, lol. Most of the chicks are actually a day or two older than a week, but close enough! They are all barnyard...
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