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    emergency. sick chick advice welcome.

    Hi there one of our 8 week old chicks are sick! he/she has brown diahorea not yellow. It hasnt eaten since yesterday morrning and i havemt seen it drink yet. It seems listless and mooching around. Pecking at ground now and then but if it picks up good it is dropping it again. I have mixed...
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    Do I need to show my hens their hen house?

    I am so glad i came across this post!! our little 6 week old cheeps have had half a shed for the past 3 weeks with wire swing open doors along the top so they could see everything going on. Today though their new coop and attachef run were finishef. We put them into it through the coop part and...
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    2 roo's 2 pullets is this managable? help please...

    Thanks once again everyone. I'm going to advertise stripe today and hopefully we can find him a good home!! pity though as he is sooo cute! we are going to wait a couple more weeks with popcorn as not too sure if he is a roo!! he looks a little rooish but no where near the rooish look of...
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    Is this a roo?

    I know that stance..square as if he owns the world? real roo like. My pics are in the what gender sex forum. Are u keeping ur fella? Not sure what we are going to do!!
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    Is this a roo?

    Hi there...we are totall novices too. I posted pics of our 4 chicks and 2 of ours are younger versions of ur top chicken, everyone said ours are roos.
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    2 roo's 2 pullets is this managable? help please...

    Thanks everyone for the replies....had them out for a run about today and the boys are just so much fun, trying to out do each other with the if u can jump up on that perch so can i!! Dilema time...do we hold off and see what happens or re-home tje boys and get a couple more hen chicks. We...
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    2 roo's 2 pullets is this managable? help please...

    I have posted pics of our chicks on the breed gender forum under last cance to burst our pullet bubble!! the general consensus is that we have 2 of each gender. Now comes the tricky part...our chicks are going to be confined to a coop and run with a swap over to the hastily double wired dog run...
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    Okay last time to burst my pullet bubble :-)

    Thank you Danyy...2 of each is better that we thought Still don't think we will manage with 2 roo's though and they are our daughters and would hate to think 1 of them might turn on her at some stage. The 2 boys don't seem to be showing much sign of aggression to each other so far (are they...
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    Okay last time to burst my pullet bubble :-)

    Ok I have hopefully managed to take super pictures showing all the details needed to tell are they roo's or pullets. We were at 3 roo and 1 pullet at the last showing of my not so very good pics. Am I correct in assuming that there is no way that you can keep 3 roo and 1 pullet happily? They...
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    UPDATE.....Help we have novice humans

    Thanks folks
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    I Died Today>>Caution>>This Will Make you Cry!

    So sad and even worse because it's so true!! All animal breeding should be banned for a few years to let all the unwanted, mistreated animals a chance to find a home!! Why are people still bringing puppies, kittens, foals etc...into the world when so many are being dumped? I know here in Ireland...
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    Chick sexing project

    I have mutt pictures spanning 3 weeks of 4 chicks if that's any help!! I know a lot of people have hybrids and we are still clueless (novices) as to what sex they are. Great idea
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    Dont say it again, please dont say Rooster...

    I have no idea if they are male or female (novice!!) just wanted to say they are lovely
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    UPDATE.....Help we have novice humans

    Hi everyone Thanks for replying to my post last night...I have taken more pics of the chicks and would be grateful for any help you can give on sex...As for breed i think they are mutt's though someone posted that 2 look like Marans. Roast Popcorn at back, Lucky hiding head Popcorn...
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    Apologies in advance....but please help as we own novice owners

    Thanks once again everyone.....I have posted new pictures....in a new posting!! I will get the hang of this site!! So please take a peek at them as I think they show more of each individual chicky and your knowledge and expertise is a godsend to us novice chicken minders!!
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