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    2 day old chick struggling to stand, tips to one side?

    Thank you so much for your reply. I've taken some photos (very had to get good shots! Cheeky thing keeps moving!). It is actually doing a HUGE amount better today. Unfortunately one of the ones I thought I'd saved, died overnight ... but this little one (that I thought wouldn't make it) is...
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    2 day old chick struggling to stand, tips to one side?

    I have a barnevelder chick that hatched nearly 48 hours ago ... it took a very long time to hatch and in the end I assisted it (I'd lost another earlier in the hatching so actually helped 5 out of 7). From when it pipped, to me getting it out of its shell was about 40 hours, it had absorbed...
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte sexing

    Yes, I posted earlier in this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/silver-laced-wyandotte-sexing.171832/page-54#post-19036966 and you replied (thank you!). The browning on the wing wasn't what I expected for a pure silver-laced pullet ... which given it is a rooster is now not an...
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte sexing

    *sigh* at 21 weeks we have CROWING :( It was all looking ok ... but I'd already contacted the seller about the wrong colouring and was getting an exchange (she had hatched them from eggs from another breeder). Those pointed neck feathers were the earliest sign that all was not girl!!!
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte sexing

    Thank you for the vote of confidence! I'll update in a couple of weeks!
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte sexing

    I'd love some opinions on if my silver laced Wyandotte is a pullet?! She (hopefully a she!) is now 9 weeks old ... very little tail feathers, comb showing no signs of redness, bit concerned about the dark neck and if the feathers are pointed or round. Thanks
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