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    Breed or gender ?- 11 weeks

    Wondering if anyone can identify these chickens. May be mixed bread. I love the whitish brownish one, and the brown/gray one looks like my Americaunas, but they don't have gray and they have feathers on their face. Thanks for your input!
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    I'd appreciate some help with the gender of these EE

    I have a silkie who hatched some chicks and she attacks feet first to defend the chicks from my dog or the other bigger chickens.
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    Help identify these chicks from a kindergarten hatch

    Also, the two you said may be olde English game, the darker has a pea comb and the lighter has a single comb, if that is any hint.
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    Help identify these chicks from a kindergarten hatch

    So can Cochins have feathers on either 1 or 2 toes?
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    Help identify these chicks from a kindergarten hatch

    Here they are at 1 day old: Above are two feathered feet and legs, gray. One has feathers on two toes, and the darker has only feathers on one toe. This one is feathered feet and legs and a pearly gray color. This one is the yellow orange colored one in the 4 week pictures This one is...
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    Help identify these chicks from a kindergarten hatch

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    Help identify these chicks from a kindergarten hatch

    My son's class hatched chicks,but had eggs left over, so they gave them to me to hatch. The teacher got the eggs from a local organic farm and has no idea what type of chickens they were. I realize some may very well be a mix, but I'm just so curious what they might be ,or what're likely mix of...
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    What could the predator be?

    Yes, raccoon was my guess. Two nights before the attack that got a chicken, my husband had opened the front door to find a raccoon staring at him, munching on some cat food. He said the coon was unbothered by his presence and said "go back inside". :P But, I though a racoon's paws were likely...
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    What could the predator be?

    A couple of weeks ago, something knocked one side of my a-frame coop and got a chicken. Since then I have re-evaluated my security and everything is secured with either a spring loaded latch or a carabiner. When I looked out this morning, I could tell their water had been knocked over during...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    Quick question: I have 6 chicks, hatched from an incubator, that will be 2 weeks on Wednesday. In the meantime, I had a silkie go broody and gave her three eggs to sit on. Those hatched Sunday. Any chance I can combine them all? I'm thinking the older chicks are too old, energetic, etc but...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    When my silkie went broody, she of course was sitting on the favorite nest. What I found was some of the chickens just stood over her to lay their eggs, or squished in side by side. The more dominant hen, kicked her off the nest and this was the time that my silkie would take to go stretch her...
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    Black Orpington - he or she?

    I have 4, 16 week old black Orpington. They are my favorite so far because they are not only gorgeous, but very docile birds. I have one that has developed comb and wattles much faster than the other girls, so I've been wondering about him/her. Yesterday, he/she got spooked and ran to the...
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    My 16 week old Easter egger. Roo or hen?

    Looks like my EE hens, in coloring. We had one turn out to be a rooster and his coloring got very different pretty fast.
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I have a silkie sitting on three eggs. Today is day 20. I can hear the chicks chirping from inside the shell. How long till they hatch? (Of course I have to go out of town today.). Even though I can hear them, I don't know what's going on, because my silkie tried to peck me this morning when...
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    Are my chicks going to die? :(. Please Help!

    It is a big plastic tote. I'm using a 250 watt heat lamp. They are on pine shaving as bedding, but I like to cover it with a layer of paper towels, which I change daily. This is the same set up as I had with a batch of chicks I oredered from a hatchery in February. This afternoon I raised the...
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