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    8 Week Old Polish Chick

    I did originally think it was a pullet! The one cockerel has so much wattle growth that's bright red. All hatched on the same day though I know they develop differently.
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    8 Week Old Polish Chick

    I have six polish chicks and I'm pretty certain on all but one. This one has some red in it's wattles and comb though not much compared to the one I'm certain is a cockerel. It also has a less rounded crest so I've been leaning towards cockerel in the past couple days but I'm not sure. So I...
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    6 weeks old, help confirm suspicions?

    Thank you! I was beginning to think the red chick was a pullet but I wasn't certain.
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    6 weeks old, help confirm suspicions?

    So I have three chicks I'm curious about. Two of them I'm pretty certain of (the black one and the single comb), but the red one I'm now wavering on. I know it's still a bit early but I thought I would ask! (I also have six polish chicks that I know will take much longer to sex.) These are all...
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    Is this bumblefoot?

    Okay, that makes sense! I honestly had never noticed something like that before but this chick is my daughter's favorite and she was worried so I wanted to check to be certain it wasn't something that needed treatment.
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    Is this bumblefoot?

    One of my chicks has bumps on their feet like it's a bit swollen. They're walking just fine and when I press on it, it doesn't seem to hurt. I've never seen anything like this and none of the other chicks have it as far as I can tell. Is it bumblefoot or something else? What's the best way to...
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    Does this chick need help?

    I watched it really closely, I didn't leave the incubator, I basically had my nose pressed against the window and I noticed that it was moving less and less so I boiled a pot of water to steam up the room and got some tweezers and warm water. There was a piece of membrane completely stuck to the...
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    Does this chick need help?

    This egg has pipped and partially zipped but it was getting severely knocked around by the already hatched chicks. It's been this way for awhile and got knocked with the opening pressed against the styrofoam wall. When it got knocked back, this is what it looked like. All the other...
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    Air cell straight across and not slanted, is this okay?

    Day 13! I've been trying to make sure the air cell size is correct but it's been a bit hard to determine based on the pictures since mine are much straighter.
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    Air cell straight across and not slanted, is this okay?

    Sorry for not having pictures right now, I'll try to get some later tonight, but I've noticed that all my eggs have air cells that are straight across the top of the eggs and not slanted like I've seen in the pictures online. I've been turning the eggs an odd number of times a day (usually 3 or...
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    Temperature flux between 98.6 and 101 for a day, are these eggs still viable?

    Thank you! I'm very excited for these eggs so I was panicking.
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    Temperature flux between 98.6 and 101 for a day, are these eggs still viable?

    I've incubated before and had a pretty good 85% hatch rate. I'm using a forced air Hova-bator (not sure what model, big styrofoam thing). The first two days, everything was reading fine. Third day (yesterday), the temperature dropped and then went up to 101 F. I don't think it was there for very...
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    Bantam Cochin Hen Making a Gurgling Sound

    I have a hen that's a little over a year old. She occasionally makes a low gurgling sound when my oldest kid is holding her. It sounds a little like a crinkling or growling or purring but seems to be connected to her breathing though I'm not sure. I tried getting a video of it but it's a very...
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    Anyway to stop a crowing hen?

    She doesn't have any health issues according to the vet. I just took her recently (three weeks ago) and she was fine. It's odd. I would consider her more of a 'loner' than the rest, she even finds other places to roost and I have to get her while the others go into the coop when it gets dark...
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    Anyway to stop a crowing hen?

    No, she's absolutely a hen! She even lays eggs though not as often which I assumed was an age thing (she seems older) or because of the recent crowing.
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