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    Help-What could this be?

    We have a flock of 16 hens and 2 roosters who are all either 1 or 2 years old, never had any illnesses. Last week, we found one hen in our barns tack room (their coop), just standing still with her eyes closed. We took her inside, gave her medicated feed, electrolytes and probiotic. She made it...
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    What are my "assorted bantams"?

    DH surprised me with some TSC assorted bantams on Thursday. We have five like Chick #1, three like Chick #2 and then an all-black one(not pictured) that looks just like Chick #1. It's hard to see, but all of them have feathered feet. Chick #2 birds are smaller than the Chick #1 birds, and a...
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    Help with our barnyard crosses? *pics added*

    We let a broody hen hatch some babies and now we are wondering who their parents are from our small flock. They all hatched from brown eggs so hen choices are: red sex-link, black sex-link and one mottled java/Ancona mix. We have two roosters - a red sex-link and an Ancona, both of which are...
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    3 gorgeous Mottled Java cockerels

    Rehomed one and three more have matured and are obviously roos. We live in East Texas but can meet near Shreveport if anyone in North Louisiana is interested. They're almost 6 months old, not human aggressive at all. Didn't get a good pic of the third one, but I can try again if...
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    Two Mottled java Roos need good home - East TX/North LA

    We have two mottled java cockerels (nicknamed Bert & Ernie) that need good homes. They hatched in late Feb so are approx. 19 wks old. Neither is aggressive, we just got way too many roosters out of this batch. They are hatchery strain but seem to have good body type and temperament. Willing to...
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    No chicks after lockdown....What are we doing wrong?

    DH has now tried three clutches.... has lots of eggs make it to lockdown day, and then we lose them all. :( We started some on 6/9 and all were gone around day 19, we think. He candled on day 23 and they had barely changed at all from when he put them in the hatcher. Same thing with another...
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    Best Java qualities?

    We have a small flock of mottled Javas - they are from a hatchery line, but we were hoping to get some pure Javas soon to start breeding. Out of ten chicks, we have ended up with three roosters, so we need to get rid of two of them. None are perfect standard, so which qualities are harder to...
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    Help ... Java? Ancona?

    Out of our TSC batch of "mottled javas", so far we have ended up with an Ancona rooster, 2 Java roosters and 5 or 6 java pullets. These are the last unidentified girls... they are much smaller than the rest of the pullets, so we are leaning towards Ancona, but their leg coloring is off. What...
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    Help us identify our TSC babies?

    In February, our TSC had a bin of chicks labeled "Mottled Javas" - we bought all that was left, which was 10. One of them was obviously a rooster a couple of weeks later, so we thought the rest must be pullets. We couldn't understand why he was so much smaller than some of the pullets, if...
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    Odd pullet behavior?

    We have a flock of 24 birds -- 8 sexlink hens who are about 15 months old, 5 pullet sexlinks (4 mos old), 1 sexlink rooster (4 mos old), 1 java rooster (3 mos old) and what we believe is 9 java pullets (3 mos old). Our java rooster crows, breeds, etc. I posted before that our sexlink rooster...
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    Do I have an advanced rooster or just a late bloomer?

    We bought some sex-link chicks back in February and one turned out to be a rooster - we named him Colonel. Two weeks later, we bought mottled Java chicks and one of those is a rooster as well, Jazz. It's now June... Jazz is small in stature but has a big comb and has been crowing, loudly and...
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    Sick baby chick... :(

    About a week ago, we bought a dozen mottled Javas from TSC. We have them in a brooder in the house, with pine shavings for bedding and a heat lamp at all times. They have fresh water and food at all times - we have them on the DuMor chick starter. Yesterday, my husband noticed that one had a...
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    Kennel cough? Something else?

    We have a 1 year old blue heeler and an 18 month old bloodhound who live in our fenced backyard together. We bring them in the house and crate them every night. Both had their full puppy series of shots last spring, and it's not quite time for their yearly vaccinations. On Friday morning...
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    Potbelly Pig question

    We adopted a baby potbelly pig the first week of November - she was about 4 weeks old at the time. She's been living inside since she was so small, but she's already up to 12 pounds and ultimately we want her to live outside. She eats and drinks fine, out of a regular pet bowl, but I'm worried...
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    Black Sex-Link Question

    Our girls are a couple weeks shy of being 6 months old now. We clearly have 7 red sex links and 1 black sex link, who have all been laying for almost 3 months now. And we have our one Blue Andalusian who finally started laying. But we have one hen left who is still not laying - and yes, we're...
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    Yay! Our BA laid today!

    After much anticipation, our one and only Blue Andalusian, "Gracie" laid her first egg today! :D Our girls are at about 20-21 weeks now and all the production hens have been laying for over a month now. I didn't get a picture - it was a soft shell egg and since she decided to lay it in the...
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    Hens suddenly fighting?!

    We have 10 hens who have been together since they were just a few days old - they're about 5 1/2 months now, some are laying already and a few are not. There has always been one who seemed like the dominant (my Blue Andalusian), but she was never overly aggressive. Then one of my red sex...
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    First chicken injury - cut on neck

    The husband went outside and found that one of our hens has an open cut on her neck. We don't have roosters, just ten hens, so she must have cut it on some fencing or something in the barn somewhere (they free-range all day when we're home). I brought her in, cleaned it off with hydrogen...
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    Sad hen?

    My chickens are young - just getting to 5 months old - and are just now starting to lay. The first egg came about 3 weeks ago and still there are only about 4 of my 10 laying. Today, I walked outside and heard the most awful SCREAMING coming from the barn. Several of the chickens were walking...
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    Gender?

    I've learned a lot in the last couple of weeks... I won't tell you how many hours I've spent reading old posts on here! So hopefully this is my last gender/breed question for a while! Everyone thought our Gracie was a Blue Andalusian when I posted pictures ... But just this week, her tail...
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