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    Super cute, but what kind?

    I saw this picture posted on a bird page on Facebook. Does anyone know what kind?
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    Chckens butt has problems

    There is something wrong with one of our chickens butts. This morning there was what looked like a deformed egg hanging from a large mass of tissue, or a hemeroid, on the outside of her butt. It was brown like an egg, but soft, and it was stuck to something. I pulled it off, and my husband...
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    hen or rooster?

    We have a weird chicken. Last April one of our hens hatched a single chick. It looks(ed) like a hen, no big red comb, small wattle, no spurs, made soft cooing or clucking noises. That all changed about 2-3 weeks ago, it is now 8 months old, bigger than mama and papa , huge red comb and...
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    Will the other hens lay?

    We have a broody hen sitting on 6 eggs. When the other hens go into the coop to lay they get growled at, and end up leaving. Will they find another place to lay or will they stop until they can sit in the box again? There is more than one box to lay in, but they insist on using just the one. In...
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    At what age can rooster fertilize eggs?

    We have a couple of 4 month old roosters that have been doing their job for several weeks now. We have observed them mate with the ladies several times. Now one of our hens has gone broody and is sitting on 6 eggs. The only way to really tell is to candle in a week and see if they are fertile...
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    How old will a hen be before she sits on her eggs?

    So we have a hen and roo that have bred. They have been observed. My hen is not quite a year old. Is she to young to sit and hatch her clutch? How old are they when they will start sitting?
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    What kind of Orpy is this?

    So we bought eggs from an Orpy breeder in NY. When they hatched 2 of the chicks looked funny. They were 3 weeks old last Sat and Sun. As they have started growing their feathers in, they are grey with light horizontal stripes, their beaks are yellow and so are the feet.The breeder said possible...
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    automatic turner turned off

    OMG!!! We are on day 15 of our incubation period and had a major problem. On Wed. we candled and out of 18 eggs, we had 13 great looking eggs, 2 that were iffy and 3 duds total. Then cat-astrophy: our cat fell off the incubator either Wed. or Thurs. night, and turned the automatic turner off. We...
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    Something attacked chickens several injured

    We don't know what got into them. But our Lavendar Lady is dead. The Buff Orpy is fine and in her coup. They are resting in a box, 2 of them over a heating pad, one under a hot lamp. Another with no visable marks, but bleeding out of an ear, is in a different box, with a warm lamp on her. She...
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    Roo or not Roo? That is the question.

    So I have 2 Lavendar Orps. We are having a tough time determining if one of the Lavendars is a Roo or not. The Lavendars are only 10 weeks old, and so far the one has no saddle feathers. But the comb and wattle are bright red. The other ones comb and wattle are still pale in color. Can I get all...
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    Black Orps dieing!!!

    I am having trouble with my baby black orps. We hatched them from eggs we recieved through the mail. Between 2 seperate batches we have had 6 blacks die. 2 in the shell, one at 2 days old, one in my arms at 4-5 weeks old, the 5th one at 8 weeks old, and the last was 9 weeks. The first to die...
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