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    Cough and Raspy Breathing Immediately After Worming

    I have a 1 yr. old Speckled Sussex hen that I gave Equimax to for tapeworm. She's not been wormed before. The next morning she was coughing and had a raspy rattling sound while breathing. Her eyes are clear, no nasal discharge. I looked to see if she had visible gapeworms as I have heard they'll...
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    Bad Experience w/IDEAL Poultry Hatchery: Normal Occurrence?

    Does your state offer free necropsy? That's the only way to know for sure the cause of death. In California you ship the body with ice packs to a lab and in a few days you know if what they died of is something that can affect the rest of your flock.
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    Dong Tao or Ga Ho

    I agree, if anyone has success importing to the US, I'd be interested in hatching a few out to preserve the breed. Hopefully enough folks will revive the thread!
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    Silver Laced Polish, Swedish Flower, Black Polish, Salmon Faverolles - BOY OR GIRL please?

    Thanks everyone - hoping for the best. Already breaking my heart to have to rehome anyone as I've raised them from day old and they are my first chickens and treated as pets.
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    Silver Laced Polish, Swedish Flower, Black Polish, Salmon Faverolles - BOY OR GIRL please?

    I am trying to select roos for rehoming, these 4 are a bit of a mystery to me. I believe I have 9 roos and 13 pullets, I am certain on the other 5, but these 4 are puzzling. Unlike the others that have much larger and redder combs and have crowed. Going to be tough to rehome.... I've gotten...
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    Chick likes to sleep on back (Pic included)

    Haha! Little newborns are so cool. Mine are now running happily around the brooder. I have a tiny polish chick 4 wks old that was the runt and she's about their size. I put her in with them and they started pecking her and pulling at her feathers. Bad kids! Lol. I took her out, poor thing.
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    Cream Legbar Day Old Autosexing Help?

    And, last but not least here's what I hope is a girl (the final egg to hatch)
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    Chick likes to sleep on back (Pic included)

    This one scared the beejebus outta me a f ew minutes ago. I think in her case it's because her tummy is so round when she rolled over she couldn't get back up - like a turtle. Just to be safe, I put her on her tummy, since she's less than 12 hours old and I didn't know if it was safe for her. I...
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    Cream Legbar Day Old Autosexing Help?

    I think they are both boys, but hope springs eternal!
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    Cream Legbar Day Old Autosexing Help?

    Hello - am new to chickens and cream legbars as well! Have three eggs hatching out, the first two have emerged! So now I thought it would be easy to distinguish males/females but the second one is a little harder for me. If there's a light dot on the head is it always a roo? Help please...
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    Russian Orloff 6 Weeks, pullet please? Already have 6 roos...

    S sure do hope so :)
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    Russian Orloff 6 Weeks, pullet please? Already have 6 roos...

    Hello, I have a flock of 19 chickens, all 6 weeks old. Hatchery sexing person must have been sleeping because of the 19, so far 6 are roos. Two are already crowing. Now I am roo paranoid -- if anyone can put my mind to ease on my little Russian Orloff I'd appreciate it. Sold as pullet, but so...
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    Black Australorp Sexing Help Please...

    Oh my...I thought I had a sweet little pullet but today he crowed. Only 6 weeks old - I have about one percent hope its a pullet that just likes to crow, lol. So here is my pic, standing then snoozing. Out of my little flock of 19 birds, all 6 weeks old that were sold as pullets by hatchery - 6...
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    Swedish Flower Hen Thread

    That's exciting! I love my little SFH. Just started showing signs of a wee crest (same seller of eggs that you have). Keep us posted.
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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    Here's a pic of the back... is it pretty certain with these red spots it's a roo? seems like in this thread someone said a female cannot have red on their back...
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