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    HELP NEEDED SEXING PEKIN BANTAMS @ 8 weeks old!

    I have been breeding pekins off and on for years and Im able to sex my pekins from about 3 weeks on in your boys you will see that their combs start growing in leaps and bounds ahead of the girls. Once and a while you will get 1 or 2 wrong as there can be pullets with larger combs but this isn't...
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    At what age do you turn off heat lamp?

    yes but when mama raised them they had mama to keep them warm underneath her
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    At what age do you turn off heat lamp?

    I use a 50 w globe and have always used a 50w globe once they are 3 weeks old I lower the wattage to 20/25w then they go outside however I have decided that I am tired of raising chickens in my spare room so from now on am going to raise them outside or atleast put them outside from 2 weeks...
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    16 week old Silver Spangled Hamburg - pullet or cockerel?

    this one would have tricked me too I know it was a long time ago but who cares im going to post anyway. He has quite a feminine head and neck and feathers at the front but if you look you can see the Roo tail feathers starting to stand upright (one in particular also the boys also have a much...
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    Does anyone raise Silver Spangled Hamburgs?

    Hello there I also have 3 silver spangled hamburgs I know as chicks they were always very light, its because they are just not big eaters at first It worried me so I decided to put in a handful of normal chook seed mix and they loved it they prefered that to the chick crumble actually so I gave...
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    What colour is this cockerel?

    I think the grey one is a lavender splash
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    What colour is this cockerel?

    maybe even a Columbian splash I would think? because of the black feathering throughout the wings?
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    What colour is this cockerel?

    Has anyone ever seen a Pekin/Cochin bantam this color before it is a pullet that I bred and is a chocolate color with cream lacing, I haven't ever seen one with this coloring and can not find the color anywhere if you can help please let me know I am in Adelaide Australia
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    do bantam chicken eggs actually hatch early

    I buy pekin bantam eggs from all different breeders and incubate them and without fail they always hatch atleast 2 days early so now it has just become the normal thing its difficult however when I mix breeds like I did this time so I had silver spangled hamburg eggs in with pekins. The pekins...
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    Why can i not turn eggs in the last 3 days of incubation?

    I have found that the best option is to have another incubator on standby and as soon as the little one hatches I put it into the other incubator to dry out and sleep this way the other eggs aren't thrown around the incubator but a chick trying to take its first steps, I feel like this can cause...
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    Losing Guinea Fowl...Why?

    I just wanted to add in regards to the fresh grass that you lost 3 birds from,I also lost one bird a few years ago after feeding fresh cut grass My vet told me that like horses chickens get a type of colic caused by some grasses being too rich, They are ok if you feed them small amounts each...
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    Pekin Bantam Breeder and enthusiast

    Pekin Bantam Breeder and enthusiast
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    When do Pekin Chickens start laying?

    The reason your hen doesn't want you near her while she is sitting is almost definitely because she is starting to go broody and is wanting to have some babies of her own if you have a rooster and fertile eggs and want to breed now is the time to put eggs under her if possible mark the eggs and...
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    What Color are my Pekin Bantams - PLEASE HELP ME

    PLEASE RESPOND I WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATIVE I have 2 young pekins that I hatched one of them looks like a blue and I think is a cockerel but the colors aren't even there are actually some black feathers and bits of black in his feathers so I wasn't sure if that is blue or not (his father is a...
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    What kind of predator did this????

    after looking at those scratch marks I hesitate in it definitely being a cat as a cat wouldn't have managed that amount of scratching. I would also as someone else has said lean toward a dog even foxes wont scrape wood up like that
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