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    One Girl and One Boy?

    We have 3 1/2 week old blue splash Marans. Today I noticed that one has a slighter larger and noticeably redder comb. I'm thinking it's a Roo and the other is a hen. What do you think? The grayer (blue) chick is the one I think is the Roo. They're fast little buggers, so I have a hard time...
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    The Chicks are Coming, but Mama is stinky!

    Checked on my broody mama this morning and one chick is hatching! She's sitting on 11 eggs and it is Day 22 today. Of course I was getting antsy (even though last year she hatched out 5 babies with no problem) and decided none were going to hatch and what was I going to do. We'd started with 12...
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    Feathers after molting

    Our Barred Rock molted like usual this year, but now she has a tiny area on her butt that never filled back in. The skin is red like it is getting ready to sprout feathers and you can see the beginnings of a few pin feathers, but it seems strange that it hasn't filled in yet. She has one tiny...
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    Chick didn't grow tail feathers

    One of my bantam japanese-old english game roos never grew a tail. He was pasty in the first week he was born, but I obviously got that cleared up. He would clean himself up and preen a lot after I'd wash off his bum and dry him. The area did look kind of calloused when he was still title and...
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    Hello from North Carolina!

    I wanted to say a quick hello from Raleigh, NC. We started raising chickens last October because I've always loved chickens and have collected tons of (fake) chickens for awhile. I met a man who kept backyard chickens and fell in love with the idea of having them myself. After convincing my...
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