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  1. Altairsky

    Chick drowned, waterer suggestions?

    Vertical nipples are the best choice for chicks. A very shallow dish with stones in it can be added too until you're sure all chicks can drink from nipples. I also use a canary waterer when chicks are raised by broodies in the coop.
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    Cream Legbar Comb

    Probably a green or a grey egg!
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    Cream Legbar Comb

    5 months and half!
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    Mentally Challenged Orpington Pullet

    I have a mentally challenged araucana. She makes a monosyllabic noise and nothing else. She also goes blank and look like a taxidermy asset sometimes. She thinks she's the bottom of the pecking order, but her normal sister is actually lower than her. She bites my hand to the point of making me...
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    Cream Legbar Comb

    Yep, she's Legbar X (araucana X salmon faverolle) She was 3/4 weeks younger in this pic:
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    Mean rooster

    If you need a rooster for fertile eggs and you don't want to get an adult one and have to do all the quarantine stuff, and you want to try to fix your current cockerel, try to put some vicks vaporub on the hens comb and head (where you see the rooster pecking). It tastes so bad that he should...
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    Colored egg mystery

    What a beautiful pullet. Love the blue legs!
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    Cream Legbar Comb

    This is a legbar X easter egger pullet with her glorious comb, and she's not laying yet. Her comb size exploded in the last 2 weeks.
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    Cream Legbar Comb

    Your legbar pullets are still far from being of laying age. Their comb will grow a lot a few weeks before starting to lay, which is nowhere near soon. Their comb will get redder before getting bigger.
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    How intense is your pecking order?

    Pecking order issues happens more frequently with confined roosterless flocks. My flock can free range, dominant hens cannot guard anything because all resources are spread out. If there is any major bully hen, the rooster will always break the fight. Las time there was this pullet literally...
  11. Altairsky

    Rooster Picking on one Specific hen.

    The rooster has to go. He will eventually kill your hens. You either separate him for a few months until his hormones calm down, in the meantime get at least 3 more hens for him. 1 rooster with 2 hens might work if the rooster is a true gentleman which is not really your case. Keep in mind that...
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    Broken (we think) wing on a 5 day old quail chick, I'm not sure what to do for treatment!

    She'll heal on her own. Do not wrap! She might suffocate! I would not disinfect her more than once a day, but I would personally not disinfect her at all. It's stressful for her and if you can't see an open wound it's also pointless.
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    6 weeks old cockerels fighting to the death already?

    Tonight they slept together and now it's like nothing happened, if it wasn't for the zombie makeup. :idunno
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    6 weeks old cockerels fighting to the death already?

    Not at all! Actually I wanted to keep the aggressive one to replace his father because he already has some stunning colors and was interested in a easter egger male of that particular crossing, but holy cow, he's already such a beast I might keep a dual purpose instead. He dominates the dual...
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    6 weeks old cockerels fighting to the death already?

    I hatched 6 cockerels on my last batch. My plan was to invite them to dinner at 3 months old. They are 2 bantams and 4 dual purpose. The 2 bantams decided to fight to the death today, which I didn't even realize because the fight was completely silent and they were fighting under some large...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I've spend most of the day looking for that source (it had a very nice tab) but I can't find it to save my life. I found this one which isn't exactly the same thing, and the results are not as dramatic as the one I saw (they used insignificant commercial yoghurt to ferment the thing), it also...
  17. Altairsky

    Help! What do I feed my mixed flock??!

    What you are planning to do sounds perfect to me, I have nothing else to add.
  18. Altairsky

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I just wanted to let everyone know that the last part about vitamin C and kefir is not correct. There is no significant variation in Vit. C content. Instead there are variations in vitamin B complex content and certain amino acids like methionine. But that refers to kefir milk specifically...
  19. Altairsky

    Broody trying to kill babies!!

    It's not the hen's fault. Next time leave her alone and let her hatch some fertile eggs. Messing around with a broody hen is never a good idea. She'll be a great mom if you just let her do her job without interfering.
  20. Altairsky

    Do you add stuff into your commercially available food?

    If you have the setup for it, you could try to buy or harvest wild chicory seeds and plant them in the pasture. I basically built my pasture by harvesting seeds from wild herbs and just throwing them around my property.
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