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    Feather pattern? Looks like pencilling?

    I have never heard of that! I’ll have to do some research! Thanks for your reply ♥️
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    Feather pattern? Looks like pencilling?

    Hey all! I have a lavender Orpington who came from cuckoo Isabel Orpington hatching eggs I purchased. She has no signs of the cuckoo gene, and I thought cuckoo can’t be hidden in pullets. I crossed her with a lavender Ameraucana for fun and her chicks turned out to be sex linked! The lavender...
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    Does anyone have only ONE breed?

    I’m chasing the rainbow egg basket... so yeah, LOTS of different breeds (and hybrids!)
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    Chicken trachea windpipe obstruction

    Could any of this be gape worm?
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    Curled Feet

    If you hatch again, it’s really important to check everyone’s feet... sometimes chicks can be born with crooked toes which can easily be fixed at a day or two old, but after a few weeks their bones harden and it can’t be fixed. Sometimes it’s a cause of incubator conditions, sometimes it’s...
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    Pullets or cockerels?

    I think 2,3, and 6 are the only girls...
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    Possible worms

    Could she have had maggots in her open wound? Sounds like she may have been ill for a while and maybe just hiding it. Sorry for your loss 😢
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    Newly hatched baby chicks pecking at bad egg inside incubator

    Ps. The chicks don’t “eat” the yolk inside the egg, they absorb what’s left of it into their abdomen after they pip, and before they hatch. That’s why it takes so long. That chick may have ruptured the yolk while trying to hatch which caused its death.
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    Seperating hens and rooster to raise chicks

    My Orpingtons are always super broody and super fluffy so I can fit a lot of eggs under them. I use them to hatch all sorts of different breeds, as those hens don’t go broody near as often. I always separate my broody, put all the eggs underneath at the same time, and then let her hatch in...
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    Impacted and Sour Crop...and Something Else?

    The probiotics were acidophilus with bifidus (natural source)
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    Impacted and Sour Crop...and Something Else?

    Possibly her breast bone? I just went through this with a 3 month old pullet... I thought I was either destined to have a house chicken, or that she would get to the point I would have to cull her. Probiotics helped in the end after I had done everything you have done. I bought capsules and...
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    My Hens Are Dying. Can You Help?

    It IS possible to mix your own feed, but the other posters are correct in that it doesn’t make sense for just a handful of chickens. I have about a hundred and mix my own feed and ferment it. I also add in a vitamin/mineral mix and my birds are very healthy. I feed a mix of cracked wheat, split...
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    What Q do I need to ask before I buy a Cream Legbar?

    Ok, what just happened?!! Is the seller hatching for you?what happened to the chicks in the eggs??
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    Help regarding feather eating?

    I would definitely try it. Sometimes they just need to snap out of it. They get so used to doing it they continue even if they don’t need the extra protein. I would put her in there and put stop-pick on the picked on hens to deter any additional picking and then order some pinless peepers. They...
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    Introducing a new rooster

    Do you have any silkies in your flock?
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