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    Are these Blue Mille or Gold Neck d' Uccles?

    Thanks but I really don't believe they are porcelain. I've raised porcelain before as well as the gold neck. The porcelain are lovely and have a definite porcelain/lavendar sheen and I would have preferred to have to gotten those on accident. Ideal sells Porcelain as well as the Gold, Blue and...
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    Are these Blue Mille or Gold Neck d' Uccles?

    That blue in the pictures is one of the 4 self blue cochins I ordered as well. I separated each variety in order to correctly and clearly identify, count and take pictures to show that I was not confusing the birds. And that's part of the problem you can tell the blue cochins are blue. It seems...
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    Are these Blue Mille or Gold Neck d' Uccles?

    So how would you handle it with Ideal? I'm pretty frustrated at being sent the wrong chicks and then being brushed off about having been sent the wrong chicks.
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    Are these Blue Mille or Gold Neck d' Uccles?

    I ordered Blue Mille Fleurs and Ideal Poultry sent me these. They look nothing like the pics I can find online of Blue Mille Fleur and look like the Gold Neck D' Uccles I've have had in the past and can identify online. Am I just really off and these will end up looking like Blue Mille Fleurs...
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    Ducks mailed and still not arrived yet!

    See, the weather was fine for me and I had no idea where the birds go in the process of being delivered. However the hatchery does. And my email confirmation when I ordered said that they would call if they were unable for some reason to deliver. I would expect that the hatchery would decide to...
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    Ducks mailed and still not arrived yet!

    I'm so sorry. If you have a hatchery that close I bet even if you mail order them there is no way they'd get lost or delayed.
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    Ducks mailed and still not arrived yet!

    Yeah, they really are crummy in general. Though I have to say our local mailman is SO nice and better than all the other's we've dealt with. They would just toss packages on the ground by the mailbox at the end of our driveway if they didn't fit. He always walks our packages to the door with a...
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    Ducks mailed and still not arrived yet!

    When dh went to pick them up he learned the local feed and seed's large chick order is missing this week. And a friend on another forum had a chick delay this week too. Over 30 were dead on arrival and then another 20 died within 24 hrs of arrival. Also due to being in the mail too long. It's...
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    Ducks mailed and still not arrived yet!

    Well the post office finally called. The ducks arrived and they are all dead. :( The lady at the post office said they've never had a problem with the bird delivery before.
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    Ducks mailed and still not arrived yet!

    I think there are some letters missing. Are you saying the ducklings were shipped back to the hatchery?? Really? I would have thought that Metzer would have known this by Thursday the last time we called. But either way...wouldn't they call us to tell us what happened with our order if they knew...
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    Ducks mailed and still not arrived yet!

    I had no idea about the bad weather that direction. I don't have tv or watch the news. Our weather has been fine this week here though last week we had some snow and ice for a couple of days. I was kicking myself doing reading on here and realizing I could have added gro gel to their order. I...
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    Ducks mailed and still not arrived yet!

    We ordered ducklings from Metzer Farms. They were shipped Monday. It's now Friday and they've still not arrived. We're really stressed about it. I'm assuming there is no way they are going to survive. I'm worried they won't be there tomorrow even. I'm stressed about getting a box full of dead or...
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    Does egg size determine the size of the full grown chicken?

    We have an assortment of chicken breeds and they just hatched their first 4 home made chicks. LOL Anyway, my husband and I were wondering what determines the size of the chick. Unlike a uterus an egg does not stretch to accommodate the size of the baby. So we have this one teeny tiny chick...
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    OMG ITS REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN!!

    Congratulations! I just lost my first baby. But there is one alive in egg that it's mother just accidentally poked a hole in and I don't know what to do.
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    Chicks hatching questions!

    We have 2 Cochins on eggs. One had 3 eggs and we came out an hour and a half later and there were 2 eggs and a dead cold chick. How could that have happened so fast? The other Cochin is on 5 eggs. We picked up one and heard chirping inside. When I handed it back the hen pecked a hole...
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    broody hen but others add more eggs

    Thank you all for the prompt replies! I read the thread on the broody suites and my husband went ahead and moved our broody hen to one. She is in the coop now with it. We just let her have all the eggs she had. She has food and water in there. She didn't immediately sit down on her eggs though...
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    broody hen but others add more eggs

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16275 The second gives a lot of good information on how one lady manages her broody hens. Note that she probably has a different set-up than you so not everything will apply to you, but it is loaded with good information...
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    broody hen but others add more eggs

    I have a broody Cochin hen trying to set. However our hens have all had the habit of piling in the same nest box to lay eggs with the others. This hen appears to be trying to set but other hens get in and add MORE eggs. What should I do? I'd like to let her set the eggs but I am not sure what to...
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    Something wrong with rooster!

    My Mille Fleur rooster Robin Hood is not acting himself. He is sitting in the laying box with his back facing out. He never even used to get in the laying boxes. He is acting low energy, just not himself. We see no visible injuries but the top of his comb has changed color and is very dark at...
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    Help! Chicken slaughter!

    Yeah, I think she is well meaning but VERY misguided. I never see the raccoons myself just hear fighting at night sometimes with the window open. But my parents live across the street and they get on their back deck. My mom hates them. They are not afraid and she can open the door and yell at...
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