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    Duck and goose eggs together

    We have a broody hen and we dont need anymore chicks! So i was going to find some fertile goose and ducks eggs to put under her instead. How long should I wait to add the ducks eggs under her with the goose eggs. I don't know what types of goose eggs yet, just trying to do some research. Hope...
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    Help! What to feed bare back hens?!

    Would feeding these hens gamebird (for the higher protein levels) feed help them grow back the feathers?
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    Roosters or Hens?‏

    So awhile ago when they were 3ish weeks old I had a thread and asked if they were roosters... My answers were yes they are... So they are now 13 weeks old... No pointy hackles or saddle feathers.. But they do have curled tail feathers, but so does our Black sex link pullet (at the bottom of...
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    Sex of my White Turkey Poult (12 weeks old)

    This is Stuffing.. It was just a name for a turkey meant for eating, now he/she is like a pet. We call him/her Stuffy. This is our younger Poult.. She/he is 4 weeks old... I have read that female poults have smaller snoods that male poults, she had the smallest of the four. The others...
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    When will they start crowing?

    Not sure if this is the right part of the forum.. When will a cockeral(sp?) begin crowing? We have 3 Cockerals (sp?) that are about 12 weeks old... We have 5 Adult Roosters, will that make them want to crow or not?
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    Can you tell be their genders?

    All Chicks in this thread we hatch except for Noodle. I would liek to know what breeds you think they are mixed with. We have Barred Rock Hens, Rhode Island Red Hens, Red Sexlink Hens, 2 Buff Orpington Hens, 2 Buff Orpington Roosters, 1 White Leghorn hen, 1 Black Australorp hen, 2 Splash...
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    African Gosling Gender?

    Can you tell what gender Blue Berry is? It doesn't really matter, but We are just curious!
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    Crooked Tail?

    How does a duck get a Crooked tail? Here is Web. She is the Crested Mallard/Rouen. BTW. The Drake no longer chases her around because when ever either of the drakes bothers Blueberry's (Goose) buddies he/she goes after them and starts plucking feathers.
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    How far he has come :)

    This is turtle on the day he was hatched.. The one in the back He was attacked by his mother (the one that hatched him) And thrown out of the nest. He originally didn't have a name, but his buddy Turtle who was also injured and thrown out of the nest, died of cocci. So I named him...
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    Look what I found!

    So 2 days ago one of our 9 week old EE pullet (i think) went missing. Well today it was raining A LOT so I went to make sure none of the chicks had drown or got stuck outside the coup. While looking for the chicks to make sure the are all there I lifted up the feeder lid off the floor of the...
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    Twisted Beak -- Need help ASAP

    I think that is what it is called. Well I had a chick having a hard time hatching, so I peel back the membrane and shell to reveal its head (all blood vessels were gone. Well I believe it has twisted beak, I will have to get a picture. But is there a way to correct it so that is doesn't...
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    Urgent! Help!

    So I went down to the chicken coop this morning and found a chick outside one of the nest boxes, I thought it was dead except it moved its legs. But it appears to have been kick out of the next and the skin pick off its back The mother isn't the one who did this, it was a Barred Rock that kick...
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    Do Andalusians go broody?

    Not sure if this is where this thread goes, sorry if it doesn't go here! We had a Splash Andalusian hen go missing about a week ago. She hadn't been laying her eggs in the coop for a couple weeks before she went missing. My sister thought she saw her a morning or two after she went missing...
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    Bantam?

    I have been posting A LOT of threads recently but here is another! Is this polish a bantam? These two are the same age, Peanut is the brown one and she is a Easter Egger. Snow is the silver laced polish. Here Snow is with one of the chicks.
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    What the Heck!

    Okay so I had to take a egg away from the broody hen to hatch it because its shell was practically gone. I had a chick bleed to death a few days ago by getting its shell broken and then squished by the broody hen.. But anyways, I helped it a little because it was making itself bleed because...
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    Ameraucana vs. Easter Egger

    Are ameraucana chicks fluffier that easter eggs chicks? We got a "Ameraucana" from a feed store, and she/he is way fluffier than the easter eggers were when we got them. She also doesn't have green legs. The little tan one is the one in question, the black one with a small white bib was...
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    How do you know you have a silky?

    I was just curious what do silky wing feathers look like when they come in as chicks?
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    Surprise Babies!

    So this hen wasn't supposed to have her eggs hatch till tomorrow or the next day, but this was an estimate. So so far we have gotten 6 out of 12 chicks. But this lovely surprise started as a horrible seen this morning. I went at about 9 am to let the chickens out in to their yard and saw 2...
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    Hm. What kind of mix is this?

    So we hatched this chick (by we I mean a Buff Orpington Hen) I have now idea what kind of chicken it is... We have Buff Orpingtons (2 hens, 2 roosters), 2 Splash Andulusian Roosters, 6 sexlink red hens, 2 Black Australorp hens, 8 rhode island red hens, 3 Barred Plymouth rock hens, 1...
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    Babies <3

    One of our Barred Rock hen tried to hatch 5 eggs but they died So we went out and got 5 chicks to shove under her butt.. They are Cute little fuzzy butts! From Left to right: Bat, Lacey, Snow Flake, Noodle, and Thistle.. And of course their surrogate mommy! Bat - Black...
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