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    Help needed - these chicks are NOT welsummers... so what I'm the world are they?!

    We don't have them in Australia🙂
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    Help needed - these chicks are NOT welsummers... so what I'm the world are they?!

    Yes I thought that, but black legs?!
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    Help needed - these chicks are NOT welsummers... so what I'm the world are they?!

    It was just from gumtree (like Craigslist if you're not Australian!), I've reported her ad but there's not much more I can do.
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    Help needed - these chicks are NOT welsummers... so what I'm the world are they?!

    I bought half a dozen fertile eggs to put under my lavender pekin, I asked for 3 vorwerk and 3 welsummer. She gave me an extra egg as one of the "welsummers" was very large, not ideal but ok. The eggs were mid brown and heavily speckled, average size, light for a supposed welsummer but it is mid...
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    Deep litter method with damp floor???

    Our chickens free range and at night are in a metal shed with a cement floor - it's been really wet lately and 2 corners of the coop are getting damp on the floor. We've tried several solutions and improved the issue but I'm wondering if I can try using the DLM with shavings? I know it works...
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    Will I get solid coloured chicks or laced chicks with my Wyandotte crossing first generation!

    Im curious to know what you ended up with? I'm putting my BLRW roo over BLRW hens and splash (white with flecks of blue) hens. I've hatched 1 clutch so far but they're only a week old so I'm still not sure what they are, I think 1 BLRW and 2 either splash laced or solid splash with incomplete...
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    What color are these Wyandotte chicks?

    Hi all! Well, our broody successfully hatched 4 chicks, sadly one didn't make it through the first night but we still have 3 so we'll be happy for that. Just wondering if anyone can pick the colors at this stage (3-4 days)? Dad is a blue laced, eggs are from either blue laced or splash self...
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    Broody on wrong nest for 8 hours!!

    Update: 2 hatched day 22 and 2 more day 23! Now we're the evening of day 24 and mamma and babies still arent off the nest to eat/drink...I know 72hrs isnt up yet so Im trying to not worry but its hard! Should I dip the chicks beaks in some water and let them have a peck around or trust that...
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    12 week australorp dead

    Thank you. Just one drop on the back of her neck.
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    12 week australorp dead

    Yesterday afternoon one of our 12 week austrolorp chicks separated herself from the flock&didn't come when called for food. We put her in a box with food&water in our en suite and she perked up, was eating and no signs coccidosis. We saw 1 mite so treated her with ivermectin. Sadly she was dead...
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    Broody on wrong nest for 8 hours!!

    Thanks for your replies! The eggs are day 17 today, I candled them this morning and amazingly saw movement in 4 of the 5!!! Incredible! I'm going to leave all under&see what we get next week!
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    Broody on wrong nest for 8 hours!!

    Hi all, Ive got my first broody on a clutch of 5 eggs - very eggciting Until yesterday....she hopped off in the morning when I was feeding and watering the gang. Nobody went back into the chook shed until about 8 hours later AND SHE WAS ON THE WRONG NEST! My husband said the eggs felt cool but...
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    Splash Wyandotte x blue laced????

    Thanks for your reply, I'm querying what to expect from blue laced crossed with splash self not splash laced though. From what I've read, crossing self to laced may either result in poor lacing (is that what you mean by leakage?) or 50% splash self 50% blue self but I can't find many definitive...
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    Splash Wyandotte x blue laced????

    Pics of the parents-to-hopefully-be!
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    Splash Wyandotte x blue laced????

    Good morning sunshines! I'm about to put a clutch of eggs under my broody BLW. Our roo is a blue laced and the eggs will be from another BLW hen and 2 blue splash hens (not splash laced). I know the mix we can expect from the blw×blw (50% blue laced, 25% black laced and 25% splash laced) and I...
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