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    Lets count to a million

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    What do you have in your flock?

    Right now I have, Two batches of cluck hatched mutts and their mutt dad and one, seven year old, silver dutch bantam.
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    Lets count to a million

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    Lets count to a million

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    Lets count to a million

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    Free ranging pros and cons?

    We let a chicken go broody once and she did fine. She hatched out thirteen chicks. We let here free range and sure enough by the time the chicks were only half a year old over half, (seven) had died by drowning, and getting stepped on. Of course that was with the babies. When we had the adults...
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    Sexing D'Uccle chicks?

    Yes you probably have a roo just from looking at it's comb.
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    Are my babies pullets or cockerels? *Silver Laced Wyandotte Gender*

    Well I feel a bit better about how I was wrong. I tell the gender by looking at their combs. I haven't been wrong till now. I completely forgot that Wyandottes have rose combs. You are right BantamLover21, they are cockerels.
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    Are my babies pullets or cockerels? *Silver Laced Wyandotte Gender*

    Are you sure the wyandotte is a cockerel? looks like a pullet to me.
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    Chicken "mutt" club!!!

    I have never seen a fully naked bird that is quite WOWing.
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    Are my babies pullets or cockerels? *Silver Laced Wyandotte Gender*

    I'd say just go for a Brahma then if the feet are less feathered.
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    Are my babies pullets or cockerels? *Silver Laced Wyandotte Gender*

    Well not really. If the tail is less of a bump and more straight I'd say she is a Brahma. If she has a Cochin's tail then she probably is a Cochin.
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    newspaper for day old chicks?

    We always get pullets in the spring and every year we bring out the newspaper. We had no problem with spraddle legs until last year when we ordered online and got a silkie with a horrible leg. We tied him up with yarn and he was good as new after a while. Other than that I'd say newspaper unless...
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