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    2 week old chick with a bent wing

    He is! We got him from a lady that said she would give me free ducks if I would take the 3 chicks with them. We did and one chick was a rooster. All 3 of them were raised with the ducks and they are very docile chickens. We call them the duck chickens, lol.
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    2 week old chick with a bent wing

    Last time we had a momma hatch out chicks we were able to find homes for the 3 roosters. Our rooster is super docile which is the only reason he was allowed to stay. I don't do roosters. If he is a rooster and has a deformed wing he should be OK staying. We have 27 chickens with only the one...
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    2 week old chick with a bent wing

    That's a great idea! I'm going to make my poor hubby build something that he/she can use to get up with momma. Last night I picked him up and put him with her. We have only ever had one rooster, the dad to this chick. Why won't a rooster do well with a deformed wing?
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    2 week old chick with a bent wing

    I will try to get a better close up tonight after they are settled in. Momma is a good momma and guards them fiercely. My goal for my chickens is just to be happy. We don't eat them, we don't breed lines, we just eat the eggs and enjoy having chickens. As long as it's not hurting him I'm ok with...
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    2 week old chick with a bent wing

    That was the best I can get right now. Momma has them under cover due to rain so it's inside and dark. I can try to get a better one tomorrow. Or maybe tonight I can sneak him out from under momma and get a good one with the flash. You can see though that the wing goes down from the joint...
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    2 week old chick with a bent wing

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    2 week old chick with a bent wing

    Our chicken surprised us with chicks. She apparently had a secret nest and she just showed up one day with them. They are about 2 weeks old now. One of the chicks has a bent/broken (?) wing. It doesn't come up when she or he flaps them. The rest of them are already able to jump up onto roosting...
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    Help with duckling issues please

    Oh boy, lol. I have Muscovy ducks, but they were grown when I got them. I chose 1 drake to 4 hens. These guys were sort of a surprise. A local rescue is closing due to the owners health issues and she said she would give me her geese if I also took some ducks. I thought she meant ducks, not...
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    Help with duckling issues please

    Wow, head slap moment, lol. Yes, that is an incredibly easy solution. I've done that when introducing cats but it never occurred to me with the ducks. Thank you!
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    Help with duckling issues please

    I have a two questions and I'm sorry this is long. I recently got 7 Khaki Campbell ducks about 2 weeks old and 6 Magpie ducks a couple of days old. I screwed up royally at the beginning and put them all in the same brooder box. The bigger ducks trampled two of the smaller ducks. One of the...
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    Can a chicken hatch out muscovy duck eggs?

    Hello, I want to hatch out some muscovy duck eggs but I don't have a broody duck. I do have a very broody chicken. Will a chicken sit on the nest long enough to hatch out muscovy eggs since they take so much longer to hatch?
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    Blue partridge silkie?

    I will try in the morning. The Orloff that hatched them still won't let you get too close to them. She charges you and pecks at your feet lol. The crest is the stringing things on the top of her head?
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    Blue partridge silkie?

    I let my broody Russian orloff hatch out eggs. I was told some of the eggs were blue partridge silkies. Since all the other eggs were from larger breed chickens I'm assuming this is a blue partridge silkie. Is that correct? Also, hen or roo? I was told roo because of streamers coming off...
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    Any idea what these are?

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    Any idea what these are?

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