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    Name That Chicken Contest #2 ~ Ends 1/24/24

    Psteven, but its pronounced like pterodactyl.
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    Name That Chicken contest 3! Ends 3/22/24

    Psteven, but its pronounced like pterodactyl.
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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    That’s a relief, I still probably need therapy though.
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    Australians - Where are you all????

    Make that 5. I’m in Ulladulla, on the central coast of NSW, about 3 hours south of Sydney.
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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    I can’t decide wether sooty being the best thing in my life is good or bad. I probably need therapy.
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    What breed please very light brown meant to be one of the commercial egg layers the guy only stocks brown commercial egg layers

    Australorps are VERY good egg producers and lay until quite old too. i would highly recommend them to any one looking for good laying birds.
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    Frizzle Breeding

    the frizzle gene is dominant, so you'll get 50% frizzle and 50% normal.
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    Cuckoo went white

    i wonder if you bred her would the chicks be white or cuckoo. my bets on cuckoo.
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    Help, 2 chickens with a swollen abdomen and bumble foot. Any ideas?

    Update Just found apple, my isa brown mix, panting in the nesting boxes. She had the same fat belly, wasn’t as severe though. I’m wondering if maybe they’re egg bound. It seems kinda strange that they all have it at the same time. Do worms cause this? Again maybe they’re fat from the sunflower...
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    What Hen has the most beautiful plumage - almost rooster like- Any?

    Barnevelders have a beautiful double laced pattern and come in some realy pretty colours. Also the roosters don’t have that patterning, only the ladies.
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    Male or female ?

    Yes, rooster saddle feathers are very pointy and triangular, those are verry round. I’d say she’s a pullet.
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    Roo or lady? That is the question

    Comb on a roo would usually be a little bigger or pinker and it would have more of those triangular saddle feathers. I’d say pullet.
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    Barnyard mix large white rooster

    He’s realy pretty. I agree, looks like a white leghorn mix.
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    Help, 2 chickens with a swollen abdomen and bumble foot. Any ideas?

    Thanks so much, I’m going to start soaking them in epsom salt and beddadine tomorrow.
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    Is my Barred Rock a roo or pullet?

    I’d say cockerel. I agree definitely looks like a mix, this happend to me too. We raise chicks in agriculture class at my high school. They get isa browns, white leghorns and “australorps”. We got an “australorp” rooster from them, his name is sooty and this is him now. Turns out he’s a Rhode...
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