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    Hen or roo?

    Can you guys help me sex my 3 month old silkie chicks? I know it’s hard to sex silkies and best options are to wait until they either crow or lay an egg but sometimes a few are really obvious so I wanted to see what you guys think. How many look like they might be roos and how many might be...
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    What am I doing wrong???

    I hope so too. I lost two this morning and one more a few hours ago. I'm so stuck right now and hope the rest dont get sick. I separated the sick ones so if it's something contagious, it doesn't spread. I have 22 chicks hatching on Tuesday and Wednesday, I really don't want all my chicks getting...
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    Coccidiosis??

    So I have some baby chicks who all of a sudden started getting weak and dying within days. It started with my kikiriki chick who had messy feathers, stood under the heat lamp with its head down a lot of the time and now my two silkie chicks are doing it too along with a silkie mix. They all seem...
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    What am I doing wrong???

    I did provide a shelter for them when they were outside, and even though it was really warm outside, maybe it wasn’t as warm as they needed. To be honest, I don’t deworm the parent birds, not with medicine anyway. I’ll usually do it naturally every once in a while but it has been a long time...
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    What am I doing wrong???

    Yes, I watch closely and make sure I don’t inbreed. for example, I bred my black silkie rooster with a white hen and once I got chicks from them, i added their daughters to the flock but removed the rooster and replaced him with a new one who isn’t related to any of them. I’m very strict on...
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    What am I doing wrong???

    I'm using NatureWise chick starter non-medicated. I did change feed from my past batches to the new ones, but I didn't have problems with my last batch, which I also fed NatureWise to, so I don't believe it is the feed. I lowered the heat lamp, but the chicks started panting, so I raised it...
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    What am I doing wrong???

    Yeah, they're from different pens, so I don't believe it is genetics, especially because I've been hatching chicks from these pens for years now, and the chicks are usually healthy and strong
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    What am I doing wrong???

    Okay, so I’ve been raising chicks for almost three years now. My survival rate for my chicks has always been high; I rarely lost a chick in the past 3 years, and I’ve raised so many. I just always put extra time and care into my chicks. But I don’t know where everything went wrong this time...
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    Dropped pipped egg

    So today is hatch day for my chicken eggs in the incubator and all of them have pipped and so far two hatched. When I opened the incubator to take the first two chicks out and put them in their brooder, one of them pushed over an egg and it fell and cracked. The egg was already pipped but when...
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    Sick baby chick?

    Yeah I know kikirikis are smaller than standard chickens but it just seems really tiny, maybe like the size of a quarter and a half or something. It has kikiriki siblings the same age but I probably shouldn't compare sizes since they have different moms. Regardless, too small or not, I'm mostly...
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    Sick baby chick?

    So one of our hens hatched chicks and she has 7, while cleaning her pen, I noticed one of the chicks had very ruffled feathers, just stood there, and chirped a lot. I brought it over to the brooder with the other chicks. It does eat a little but I'm concerned for how it looks overall. It’s a...
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    Baby chick just laying there

    So this morning I went outside to see my chickens and I notice that one of my hens has a baby chick under her, I knew she was broody but im not exactly sure when she started, so the first day when I noticed she was broody, I just marked her as day 3 and counted from there the hatch date. If im...
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    Egg pipped 24 hours ago

    So im incubating chicken eggs and I had an egg pip almost 24 hours ago now and it still has not hatched. Should I be concerned or should I wait? I’m not home and I wont be home until tomorrow mid day but I had my brother who is home, check for me if the chick had hatched yet but it still hasn’t...
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    Hen or Roo?

    Okay im pretty sure you guys were all right 😭😭 it does appear to be a pullet. Her comb hasn’t grown since, it’s stayed small and it’s not even red. I was looking forward to a little rooster but im happy regardless that I have another hen
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    Hen or Roo?

    Honestly I’m just gonna wait a few months until it’s really obvious and ask everybody again because this is stressful 😭
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