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    Blind Chicken What Do I Do

    Nikki was born blind. I believe in 1 eye. See the picture of her 2 days old. Now the eye isn't as cloudy but she still can't see. I can't cull her. She's so sweet. Seems to be able to find her food and water. But I also help her at times. Either I rehire her to someone aware or house her...
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    The Silver Laced Wyandotte Thread

    I have noticed that as the chicks grow the hens tend to have longer tail feathers then the Roosters and the combs develop faster on the roosters as well. My first batch of chicks are now 10 weeks old and this theory has proven true and the roosters tail feathers are starting to come in with a...
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    **Fancy Rooster Contest!! Ends 2/28/16**

    I know Im late to this but I wanted to show off my Roo a Silver laced wyandotte a year old in may.
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    Golden Laced Wyandotte Thread!

    My Gold laced girls
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    The Silver Laced Wyandotte Thread

    Really loving my SLW and my SLW Rooster
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    The Silver Laced Wyandotte Thread

    No huge pile of feathers like you would think. Like I said last fall was bad and we had a raccoon rip a head off one chicken from outside the pen. Then numerous losses by hawk just eating brains during the day. And then the raccoon came in one night and killed multiple. Then we closed up...
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    The Silver Laced Wyandotte Thread

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    The Silver Laced Wyandotte Thread

    If it was during the daytime I would suspect a hawk. They only eat the heads (brains) and leave the rest. If evening then you might be right about the opossum. Or a raccoon. Last fall I had hawks attacking by day and raccoons by night. Lost 7 total chickens and we locked them up for rest of...
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    leg band problem

    My Wyandottes are 4 months old and I just got the spiral bands for them. I got black ones. Now I'm worried they will peck at their feet once I put them on. Are they too old?
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    The Silver Laced Wyandotte Thread

    Does anyone here put leg bands on their chickens? I would like to know which ones are my first year chickens and so on as they grow and breed and we allow the eggs to hatch. Is this something that can be done on chickens? Or do they peck at their legs if banded? And if you have banded your...
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    The Silver Laced Wyandotte Thread

    My 5 week old Silver laced Wyandotte with my Gold Laced.
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    The Silver Laced Wyandotte Thread

    Great! Keep us posted I hope to have some breeding hens in the future. I'll need all the information I can get.
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    Trying to learn from my mistakes

    Just an update all the remaining chicks are healthy and huge now. They are growing so fast. They are getting their feathers in now. Very little fuzz.
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    Trying to learn from my mistakes

    I am feeling better about my decision to separate from the group. The rest of the babies are doing well. A few of them have pasty butt and I had to wash their little behinds off. Looking into how to resolve that now. I have attempted to raise 41 chicks so far with one death. This is my...
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    Trying to learn from my mistakes

    5/13 I got 17 day old Wyandotte chicks silver laced and gold laced. Everything seemed fine the first day. On the second day it seemed that one of my silver chicks was much less alert than the others. I observed her thru most of the day and never saw her eat or drink. I would pick her up and...
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