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    Possible Injury or Illness?

    Her current setup, it was a rush job before work last night.
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    Possible Injury or Illness?

    Little Miss Starlight was outted by her clutch mates/ adoptive mom. The chicks were placed under a broody hen, she has accepted the others no problem. I'm not sure if she was injured by mom/other birds or if mom "knew" she was unhealthy and kicked her out. I can't tell from videos I took...
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    Post Coop Fire - Anything we need to do to help with recovery?

    My "lawn ornament chicken" coop caught fire in the early morning today. Luckily a neighbor saw and was able to wake up my husband, who put out the fire. I was at work and able to rush the 10 minutes home. First, my guilt & trauma - I assume the heat lamp caused the fire. I would have unplugged...
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    DCH Itty Bitty Flock

    Twix and Snickers are gone. 😢 Of the 5 chicks my chicken lady set back for me, only 2 pullets. So, we swapped them out on Monday. We have been in the look don't touch stage. Ozzy was very excited about new lady friends. Lots of fancy dancing. Kit was very vocal, I think she was telling those...
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    DCH Itty Bitty Flock

    Twix has officially crowed. No surprise... His neck has slowly been redding up. Those saddle feathers came in beautifully. They are all such good looking birds, so bummed I got 4 outta 4 boys this time.
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    DCH Itty Bitty Flock

    Just some pictures of the other 2. For reference if anyone else has my bad bantam luck. Twix has very obvious saddle feathers. His neck is starting to redden up. Reeses has moved in with our blind Speckled Sussex. (I changed water one night when putting them to bed and forgot to shut the...
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    DCH Itty Bitty Flock

    I assumed but wanted some pros to weigh in. 4 of 4 Cockerels. My Bantam Luck!
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    DCH Itty Bitty Flock

    Snickers makes a raspy noise I assume is a early crow. Assumed Cockerel for awhile now. Is the blue/green/incandescent feathers on wings male coloring? So pretty.
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    DCH Itty Bitty Flock

    Another check in. Tootsie the red one is confusing us. The single darker tail feather, maybe saddle feathers - I swear they change back & forth just to mess with us. That tail & stance are screaming Cockerel. Sickle feather or just adult coloring. Ugh. No super obvious saddle feathers that...
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    How did your flock annoy you today?

    I installed another roosting bar section to give my younger girls somewhere good to roost.... And we still fought over the window seat. Buttheads. That bar they are roosting on is only half-a**ed on to keep the hardware cloth over the window. Next is to (deep clean and) install scrap pieces...
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    How did your flock annoy you today?

    SMH. Bad enough we sleep above the window and poop on everything but an egg!? I'm seriously impressed it stayed there. Not sure how long it was there, it was very discolored. Tossed that bad boy straight into the woods.
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    DCH Itty Bitty Flock

    Thanks for learning me things! I reached out to the gal asking for at least 2 swaps. If Tootsie is a pullet, I'll probably keep Snickers. My bad bantam luck. :( Lol!
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    DCH Itty Bitty Flock

    Not looking good on the pullet front. Snickers made a raspy noise this morning, sad crow? :'( Reeses had a tail feather pop up and seeing lots of green leakage. (Thanks to Ella, I was misinformed on the green tail feathers.... But other leakage) Boo! Still hoping a chance with Tootsie! Maybe.
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    DCH Itty Bitty Flock

    Thanks. I was hoping I get at least two more pullets but even one of iffy at this point. This is my luck with bantams! I wish I had better age time frames for everyone to make the guessing more official.
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    DCH Itty Bitty Flock

    The lady I got them from did not know exactly ages due to a few clutches hatching around same time. She seemed to have a lot going on. I got Ozzy & Kit Kat around June 18. They were fully feathered and gender was pretty easy to guess. Attached photos. The others I picked up after July 15...
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