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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!

    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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    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

    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!

    We woke up this morning to find 10 of our 37 chickens missing Only the remains of a cochin was found under the apple tree as evidence. I am so upset. I guess our locks weren't enough. It looks like a raccoon opened the lock and reached in the nest boxes and ripped 10 out! I know our neighbor...
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