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    Help me name this pullet!

    Dad is CL, mom is araucana
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    Help me name this pullet!

    She's not laying yet but both parents have the blue egg gene so she is most likely going to lay pure blue
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    Help me name this pullet!

    Here she is, she's an Easter egger! The name should NOT start with the following letters: P, D, K, F, G
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    Cream Legbar Comb

    Here is her first egg!
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    Comment by 'Altairsky' in article 'Why coop height matters and the benefits of a taller coop'

    I have a walk in coop and my chickens found out that the roof beams are the best roost bars. Still no idea how large orpingtons manage to fly up there.
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    Isn’t fermented feed alcoholic??

    Alcoholic Fermentation needs yeast and sugar. To make a decent amount of alcohol it needs special strains of yeasts, and lots of sugar. The most alcoholic beverage I make is a raspberry beer from wild raspberry yeasts, and I can't get lightheaded not even if I drink a liter of it. I got some...
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    Help needed customizing low estrogen and gluten free feed

    Let's not be ridiculous. Feral ducks eat a variety of foods, not just chlorella and bread. According to what nearby people see, they can say that my chickens do quite well eating mostly grass and a bit of bread I give them, and they are pretty sure it's not the bread that's keeping them in such...
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    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...
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    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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