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    Sexing araucanas

    Hooray! Hope you are right :) Will keep you updated - you will probably hear me whoop for joy when I get my first blue egg :)
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    Sexing araucanas

    Thanks both! Here, hopefully, are some pictures. This is the uncertain one: Here are boy and girl together: All three: Girl on the left with green leg ring, boy in the middle, unknown on the right with blue leg ring. Another of all three. Boy in the middle, unknown on the right...
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    Sexing araucanas

    Hi all. I have three blue araucanas, 13 weeks old. No. 1 is big, tall, has the spiky crest and has a very red comb coming through. No. 3 is smaller, smoother on top, and no red in evidence - girl. However, I am puzzled by No. 2, who is the same size as the boy and has a spikier crest than the...
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    Guinea fowl eggs wobbling but not hatching

    Thanks! 4 have now hatched, although one is weak and has splayed legs and looks like it might not make it. Another egg is still wobbling. A good result, hopefully! Yes, they have been in an incubator the last few days, which is why I've been able to watch them so closely. I've hatched chickens...
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    Guinea fowl eggs wobbling but not hatching

    Hi all. I have my first set of guinea eggs in the incubator - they were under a broody who gave up in day 25 so they've had a mixed start in life! It's now day 29 and 5 out of the 6 eggs have been wobbling for 2 days and cheeping since yesterday. Two eggs have small cracks but they just don't...
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    Broody hen has cracked and bleeding comb

    Thank you - will give that go. She still seems ok at the moment, but her comb hasn't got any better... she definitely went out this morning for her constitutional and had a big drink, so hopefully she is managing ok.
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    Broody hen has cracked and bleeding comb

    Hi all. I have a broody speckledy who has been sitting on eggs for a week, and has developed a scratched and bleeding comb. Is she dehydrated? Could it be anything else? Her comb is still red. This is the second time she's been broody this season; last time she successfully hatched and raised 4...
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    Can a chicken lay 3 eggs in one day?

    7 - wow! Three is not such a major feat then :-)
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    Can a chicken lay 3 eggs in one day?

    Can a chicken lay 3 eggs in one day? I have only one hen that lays brilliant white eggs; the others lay various shades of brown. I got home this afternoon to find 3 white eggs in a little pile at the back of the coop, and they definitely weren't there at chicken bedtime las night. I've had hens...
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    Interspecies shared parenting!

    2 days old, and we have names - Quacky, Splashy, Tiptoe and Tutu (although which one of us is which, I don't know.) Here is a picture of our mummies trying to teach us how to have a mudbath. They don't know that mudbaths aren't really our thing - just wait until we teach them how to swim!
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    Interspecies shared parenting!

    So, I had 6 duck eggs under two broody hens; Bella, my speckledy, ended up with 4 baby ducks and Annabel, buff Orpington, none. They are now 36 hours old, and Annabel has decided that she wants to help Bella look after the chicks. Bella was very defensive at first, but they seem to have formed a...
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    Ducklings and chickens

    Thanks - will do that and see how they get on, keeping a careful eye.
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    Ducklings and chickens

    Hi all. I have two broody hens sitting on duck eggs in their best boxes. The eggs have 5 days to go, and I'm wondering about the best plan of action. I want these ducks to live as chickens so that they don't need separate housing and learn to put themselves to bed at night etc... But I don't...
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    Chick Can't Walk

    Update: found the chick dead this morning :-(
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    Chick Can't Walk

    Thanks! At 6 days old chick still isn't using its legs but is still otherwise healthy. Legs have gone more out to the side now so I've tried strapping them up as for spraddle legs, but this hasn't worked (yet). I'm having to give it food and water as it can't get to them itself and obviously...
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