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    Your Cream Legbar Sexing Challenge

    So what did they turn out to be, were the guesses right?
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    What classes to show chocolate orpingtons in?

    I didn't know if I could show a non standard colour in a general class though, I didn't know if I'd have to find an AOC class for them instead? I have emailed the organiser a few days ago but haven't heard anything so thought I'd double check on here :-)
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    sexing Light Brown Leghorns

    We had exchequers and they weren't until 5/6 weeks old and that was only through comparison, and still not enough to be 100%.
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    What classes to show chocolate orpingtons in?

    Hello, I have a lovely trio of this years chocolate orpington bantams which I am planning on breeding in 2013, and hence would like to show them. I am new to showing and am unsure of which classes I can enter them in as I believe they are not standardised yet? This is a link to the show I am...
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    Sudden deaths?

    I will let you know when I hear back, should be tomorrow
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    Sudden deaths?

    Hi, Over the past two months I have lost a few chickens. It is all a bit intermittent and although the symptoms seem similar it is sometimes up to 3 weeks before I lose another bird. They have mostly all looked a little 'off' - squinty eyes, faces pale off slightly, look lethargic and hold...
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    Chick not using one leg - ******PHOTOS ADDED, please look & help******

    Toes are curled, leg is now straightened and in a cast, the chick in a chick chair under a heat lamp. Going to put a shoe on him later and give him all the chances I can
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    Chick not using one leg - ******PHOTOS ADDED, please look & help******

    OK so here are some pics I took this morning. As you can see, the little guy is resting on his hock, which looks slightly larger than the other one and the foot is slightly turned inwards. Also if you turn him on his back, he stretches and kicks out with the good, but the poorly leg doesn't do...
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    Chick not using one leg - ******PHOTOS ADDED, please look & help******

    I had a Belgian Bantam chick hatch earlier this afternoon, the first of 10 fertile eggs in my new incubator (1 more has since hatched, 3 more have pipped) I looked in earlier and it appeared to be hobbling and I quickly and gently picked it up, as I thought there was a dried piece of membrane...
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