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    12.5 week old bantam cochin, pullet or roo?

    So we are both in this ‘hoping for a girl’ together!
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    12.5 week old bantam cochin, pullet or roo?

    Ridiculous fluff :) probably hard to see saddle feathers on that guy!
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    12.5 week old bantam cochin, pullet or roo?

    Love your mottled one. We’ve been trying to get another mottled but the one we had in the last batch died at a few days old
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    12.5 week old bantam cochin, pullet or roo?

    12.5 weeks
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    12.5 week old bantam cochin, pullet or roo?

    This is the last one we had at 12 weeks, and he was crowing and acting macho. I know that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. But this one had pointy saddle feathers at that age and I’m not seeing it on the current one.... (these bantam Cochins are killing me. We got 2 pullets our first time, and...
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    12.5 week old bantam cochin, pullet or roo?

    Ugh, sorry they are sideways. This one has more comb and wattle size and color than its partridge-colored counterpart, but no crowing, and way less comb and wattle than our previous black BC roo did at the same age. What’s your verdict?
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    Something you wish had been invented in chicken keeping.

    Get a small collapsible shovel like people keep in their cars for winter (think I might have gotten mine at the auto shop, or if not, from a big home improvement store). The shovel portion is like a foot wide and the handle collapses, so great for small spaces! And I use a small windshield...
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    Yep.... you were right about my red bantam cochin. 4/4 bots from the clutch. Ugh.
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    3 month old bantam cochin..... way less comb, wattles, and ears than it’s 2 same age hatchmates. But the darn fluffy things, so hard to tell neck and saddle feathers. And it also crows occasionally. Cuckoo boy is same age, and in the 2 photos showing both buffs, the one ‘in question’ is in...
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    Flock was sneezing, coughing, diarrhea, now recovered but no eggs

    2 of them have finally started laying again. Hopefully the others will follow suit
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    Flock was sneezing, coughing, diarrhea, now recovered but no eggs

    6 adult birds, pen/coop during the day, free range a few hours a day. The adults are about 1-2 years old. Variety of breeds. All had been laying pretty well until the Golden comet, who has constant issues with egg shell quality, had one break internally. She passed it after a day of feeling...
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    Treating a suspected crop impaction

    Based on what came out of my girl’s crop, I’d go for surgery sooner vs later. But I did read through that one person’s experience that took like 2 weeks to resolve, and I’m sure that’s possible. This was what came out of a 2# bantam Cochin crop....
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    Treating a suspected crop impaction

    Unfortunately she died, although it was my fault. I ended up doing crop surgery and she had a huge amount of hay in there, and she aspirated under anesthesia. I didn;t have her properly positioned. I know better now and if it happens again, I'll know how to get it right. I think the coke might...
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    Treating a suspected crop impaction

    Just gave 1 tbsp coca-cola by tube. Holding chicken under one arm works way better than having the chicken in your lap or in a table (she ripped one of her toenails off on the table) for passing the tube. Hope this helps!
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    Treating a suspected crop impaction

    Truly I don’t know how people tube chickens by themselves. It takes 2 of us and I’m pretty good at things like this. And she’s a reasonably well behaved and very small chicken. Tubed her again with warm water and Dulcolax. She’s passing about a tsp at a time of soft stool. Seems to be feeling...
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