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    Too young to sex? (Little over four weeks)

    These chicks are only 4 weeks old but they seem pretty mature for their age. They are all hybrids. Cricket: Goose: Honeybee: Bug: Fig: I would appreciate any help I can get!
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    April 2022 hatch-a-long (non-Easter, and Easter welcome)

    I started incubating 7 eggs that are due on April 8th! It’s currently day 5 for me.
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    Should I incubate this egg?

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    Should I incubate this egg?

    Forgot to add pics- I’m uploading them right now
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    Should I incubate this egg?

    I want to incubate this good sized egg, but it appears to have shell wrinkles. Do you think it will still be fine? I can get another egg, I’m just wondering if this one will work or not.
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    Buff Leghorn?

    Ohh, it probably is. I just thought it looked a bit light.
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    Buff Leghorn?

    So my neighbors have this hen that looks like a leghorn, but is yellow. Up until this point I didn’t know buff leghorns were a thing. Could this be one?
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    3 month old chicken genders

    Just an update: 2 out of the 6 were male, the Sapphire Splash and the Wyandotte. :)
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    Boof (chicken beard) Contest!

    Oh wow thank you! My chicken's name is Penny :)
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    How big do Sapphire Splash roosters get?

    So we have a 3 month old Sapphire splash cockerel and he is pretty tall, almost as big as our full grown Polish rooster. This made me wonder, how big is he going to get when he is fully mature? He hasn't even started crowing yet.
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    Official BYC Poll: What Are The Top Causes of Death in Your Backyard Flock?

    We have had two chicks die of gnats. They were in their "ugly stage" and we had them outside in a run to get used to being outside. The gnats got into their nostrils and suffocated and killed them. Now we check our young chickens nostrils every day in the summer.
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    Official BYC Poll: What Do You Do With Your Aggressive Roosters?

    We have a family friend who lives on a good sized farm who is always willing to take our hostile roosters. There is a lot of space for him to chill with their chickens and not bother the humans.
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    Official BYC Poll: What Do You Use Your Rooster/s For?

    Breeding, flock protection (we have actually had a rooster save a hen from a fox,) and showmanship.
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    Official BYC Poll: Do You Clip Your Chickens' Wings?

    We have 2 chickens out of our 20 that always flew on top of the coop at night, and our coop is a walk-in, so it is quite high. We clipped one wing on each of them so they couldn't fly on top, and would be forced to reside in the actual coop at night.
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    Official BYC Poll: What Do Your Chickens Live In?

    We actually have two coops. One of them is a simple run with a small elevated coop inside, which we use for our young chickens. We have six young chickens that sleep in there at the moment, but they are let out all day to free range with the rest of the chickens. We also have a horse shed with a...
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    Official BYC Poll: Crumbles, Mash, or Pellets?

    Crumbles for the chickens, All Flock pellets for the ducks, and the chickens also love the pellets so I scatter some on the ground every day for them in addition to their feeder.
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    Official BYC Poll: What type of incubator do you use?

    I have both a still air, I have no idea what brand, and a Brinsea forced air, not sure what type, but before them I made a DIY incubator with a plastic tub and some other things and the eggs made it to day 18 but didnt hatch. :(
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    Official BYC Poll: What do you do with your roosters?

    We usually keep them, if we have enough space for roosters and if we don't have that many roosters at the time. However, if the rooster becomes mean or too aggressive to the other chickens, we will find a good home that is willing to take him in.
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    3 month old chicken genders

    Yeah, I wasn't sure what it was because when we got the chicks I didnt think that it looked very much like the Golden comet in the picture. Thank you for confirming that! I for some reason thought that it was just a pullet with a really big comb and pair of wattles.
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    3 month old chicken genders

    So we have 6 new chickens to add to our flock, they are about 3 months old and I am pretty sure I can guess their genders, but I need to make sure. Here is a Golden Comet (I think it's a golden comet anyway, I got it mixed up with our other reddish orange chick when they were really young)...
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