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    Egg filled with blood?

    I didn’t get a picture of it, however there was no yolk in it and it didn’t look like the follicle pictured. The reason I referred to it as a fart egg is because it was abnormally small - smaller than my bantam egg and I don’t have any brown egg layers that are coming into lay so my guess is...
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    Egg filled with blood?

    Okay, this is a new one on me. I went outside to get eggs and found a fart egg in the floor, not a ton smaller than my bantam hen lays but still noticeably smaller. Picked it up, brought it inside to show the fam, and almost left it in the egg basket to be washed with the rest of them but...
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    Freeloaders or late bloomers?

    I’m hoping three of them will start soon. They do have larger, pinker combs than the other one; the fourth seems to be behind in every way, light comb, small body, lesser comb development. I’m hoping that doesn’t mean I only have one pullet; the others don’t walk, talk, or act like roos so maybe...
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    Freeloaders or late bloomers?

    Hey all, I got lavender ameraucanas in May of this year. Nobody has crowed, nobody is red in the face just pink, they have the characteristic teensy combs and nonexistent wattles of the ladies, and they are around 24 weeks old. Not ONE. SINGLE. EGG. :he I’m super impatient for them to start...
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    Introducing chicks to mama hen with chicks of her own

    What I have the most luck with when adopting chicks to a hen is taking one of her babies where she sees it in my hand. Then I grab one of the adoptees and put both of them back at the same time, regardless of whether she can see them or not, lather rinse repeat. If a hen doesn’t have chicks, I...
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    Boy or Girl?

    You’ve got yourself a dandy little lady there! I’m jealous, I was hoping for some girls but got all boys so all I have is her male counterpart!
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    New to turkeys

    Okay folks! I’m going to be buying four sweetgrass/Narragansett mix poults on Monday morning. I have chickens and a single duckling, with some scovies due to hatch out next week. My entire flock free ranges! I was just curious as to what all of you had to say about this mix of breeds, and any...
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    Blue Andalusian

    These are the girls that came from the same bin as him. Thoughts?
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    Blue Andalusian

    I, too, would like to know what he looks like now. I sold him a month or two ago due to a surplus of roosters. I wasn’t sure of his breed and I’m trying to get some breeding programs started, so he needed to be one of the ones to go. His ladies have the body type of orpingtons, and I’ve wondered...
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    I'm a speckled Sussex cockerel, right?

    See how the saddle and hackle feathers are rounded at the tips? You’ve got yourself a 100% lady. A cockerel would have very obviously pointed feathers in those locations and at 15 weeks would have a MASSIVE bright red comb and wattles!
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    New to Ducks!

    Houdini is still safe. His/her mother Henrietta has gone missing though :( something is picking off my flock members one by one :he:barnie I don’t know what it is or how to stop it! I go out of state on Monday and won’t be back until next Saturday, and my state is on the brink of the worst heat...
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    New to Ducks!

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    New to Ducks!

    Well, four went to one rapidly over the course of a week and a half. The smaller yellow one wandered off from Henrietta and it was a little off in the head I think, it acted funny. That happened three or four days after I got them. Then while I was on vacation last week, another one disappeared...
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    New to Ducks!

    Mama is doing great for it to be her first time! She’s watching them closely and has been up and about, even sitting through another storm under a tree with them under her. And that chick ended up leading the other 11 to them tonight and they took mama from the ducklings! She apparently is...
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    New to Ducks!

    Aren’t they just the cutest?! I’m already in love with the tiny things! All were well last night; mother hen took to them instantly yesterday morning and they took to her well enough to sit under her when cold (even if they don’t come to her calling to them yet). My lavender ameraucana chick...
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