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Petting your birds and loving them
I am raising a bantam cochin indoors as my momma hen attempted to kill it just after hatching now I'm a great believer in natural selection but having just lost my own pregnancy it seemed to me that Polly needed a momma just as much as i needed a baby! and so now 3 weeks on she lives in an old...- spaceranger
- Post #44
- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Crazy Polish..and a ?
I was hoping seeing as they are the same age the one with horns would be male and the one without would be female ... Need to be more patient and wait it out i guess- spaceranger
- Post #18
- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Crazy Polish..and a ?
Hi Just reading through as i have two Polish who are almost 4 weeks old now, one is larger than the other and a deep golden colour but no sign of horns and the other is smaller and paler lovely pearlescent gold colour but already has Bright red horns Do horns at such a young age always mean...- spaceranger
- Post #16
- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Cochin help for my mom! hen or roo??
they are all 20 weeks- spaceranger
- Post #4
- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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Finish this sentence: "You know you're addicted to chickens when..."
When you cry to your husband about starting midwifery at uni because the girls will miss you... oh yeah and my kids lol! When you find yourself gazing out the window chick watching when you should be completing course work...talking on the phone ...cooking diiner wooopS!- spaceranger
- Post #236
- Forum: Pictures & Stories of My Flock
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Cochin help for my mom! hen or roo??
Hi my mom has 3 chickens that we picked up from a breeder all three were meant to be girls but i am 100% sure at least one is a roo! What do you think? this gorgeous lil fella is a roo in my opinion but I may be wrong! these I'm not sure of (awful photography sorry)- spaceranger
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- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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flying chickens
Quote: Ok not a reply as such but Billfields I love your Basset Picture! I'm a Basset mumma too <3 my hound!- spaceranger
- Post #5
- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Night#3 in Tractor - sleeping on ground, not roosting area
Lol My year old hens do not roost at all! they sleep in the nest box all snuggled together on the floor (covered in poultry bedding) maybe mine are just weird though!- spaceranger
- Post #6
- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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They arrived!
They look very much like my Pekins (bantam cochins) heres one of my lil girls for you to compare with x- spaceranger
- Post #8
- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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Cochin babies growing up!
Cochins will sit really well on eggs they are the perfect Broodies! they certainly look like a cute couple i'd say go for it unless you notice any ill health or abnormalities as they grow- spaceranger
- Post #6
- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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What breed is this ???
Quote: Yeah I have a hen with a comb thats similar she looks more like she has antannae and it's natural, no idea what breed as I have never found out what mine is, If she is laying are her eggs blue ? (properly all the way through the shell blue, not just a blue coating that can be scratched...- spaceranger
- Post #7
- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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real mixed bag!
Hiya the breeder only has bantam breeds so maybe Polly is just big for his age lol!- spaceranger
- Post #6
- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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Cochin babies growing up!
Bantams! they look almost exactly like my two if they are the same age then yeah one is probably a cock but if theres a chance there could be a few weeks age gap then you may have two girls, I thought for ages that I had a boy because of larger comb n wattles but a year down the line and they...- spaceranger
- Post #4
- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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real mixed bag!
Not really looking for gender to be honest just an idea of what polly is breed wise, she/he seems far too large to be a pekin (cochin).- spaceranger
- Post #4
- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?