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    Co-hatching

    Hello all! I've had broodies co-hatch before but this time I replaced the eggs on one of my silkies three days later. Should I separate them at the time the eggs on the first one start pipping? Each one has her own place inside a crate.
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    Broken neck

    That's why I am asking, it's already been ten days, I want to check but I don't want to cause any more harm. I'd rather wait a few days more to be on the safe side,but I don't know how many..
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    Broken neck

    Ten days ago a marten managed to open the gate of one of my coops creating havoc.. I was absent at the time and found the next day all four of my ayam cemani hens killed.. Sole survivor was their rooster who was in a terrible condition with bite injuries and his neck broken unable to lift or...
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    4yo roo. Broken wing and staggering.

    My poor old ayam cemani roo had his wing broken by a goose a couple of years back. Since then I try to keep him out of trouble, but a few days ago it seems that the wing broke at the same spot again during a cockfight. A day or two later he started to stagger and if he falls off on his bad...
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    All Black Flock

    This is my new addition to my black flock.. A friend of mine has given me a couple of months ago a dozen barnyard mix eggs and one of them hatched to a gorgeous all black frizzle pullet with a funny hairdo. Unfortunately the photo below is quite bad and doesn't do her justice. Can't wait to...
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    Changing from 1Xday feeding to 24/7 access to feed?

    I wouldn't use a feeder where unconsumed feed can be easily accessed by rodents at night.
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    Frizzles???

    Would it be possible to post a picture of her as an adult chicken? I'm currently experimenting breeding an AC with a black frizzle bird and I 'm very curious to see how this project will end up looking..
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    Sexing orpingtons, marans, polish

    I'd appreciate some help towards sexing my 8wo orpingtons: Also is there a chance to find out at this time the sex of the - also 8wo- silkie on the left? What about the araucana at the right? Is it a true bred or a mutt? I have no splash birds in my (true) araucana coop, only silver and black...
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    What is a "splash" chicken?

    Hi, could you please enlighten me concerning this chick - presumed male-? Is he a true bred splash araucana or a barnyard mix? I have a flock of true araucana chickens in one coop and a mix of hens with an araucana roo at another and I don't know where this one came from. I'm new to color...
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    Chicken genome may show where they were domesticated

    Please then quote the relevant passage from Odyssey. Keep in mind that the name 'ornithes' for the chickens in modern greek, means birds in general in ancient Greek.
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    Chicken genome may show where they were domesticated

    The chicken chapter on 'Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z' , is quite an informative read. I doubt that there were chickens in ancient Greece the time the 'Odyssey' was supposed to take place (12th century BC). Homer on the other hand lived on 7th century so himself might have encountered...
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    Chicken genome may show where they were domesticated

    Plato lived in the 4th c. Bc - while the writer diogenes laertius lived in 1st c. Ad. To correct my previous post, in the 15th century bc the chickens traveled to ancient Egypt, it was the 7th c. Bc that they came to ancient Greece through Persia and only a century later they started using them...
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    Chicken genome may show where they were domesticated

    I highly doubt that there's any reference to chickens in the Odyssey. Chickens came to Greece through Persia around the15th century bc,and were raised mainly for cockfights. Only around the 7th century bc we do get written evidence of actually raising them for food.
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    Going broody toogether

    Two of my pullets decided to go broody at the same nest at the same time. I have put both of them together -on different nests- at a quiet place at a cellar but I haven't yet placed eggs under them, just one on each to keep them broody. Should I place eggs on both of them the same day so that...
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    Need suggestions for building chicken tractor

    Great! Thanks a lot!
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