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    We have 4 female Runners with 3 males...advice please!

    Hi there, We decided to hatch some more Runners this year to add to our 3 females and now have a total of 3 drakes with 4 females (we hatched 1 female and 3 drakes) All are lovely ducks and get on great at the moment-the youngest are about 12 weeks. heres some pics! We are guessing that...
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    Please help us sex our 9 week old mixes!

    Hi We were hoping with some help sexing our six 9 week old chicks....they are a mix of bantam and LF and all have been 'squaring up' with each other....please tell us they're not all cockerels.... Bango-we're pretty sure this ones a cockerel from the wattle and comb development Pop-we are...
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    Help sexing our six 4 week old chicks...please tell us they can't all be roosters!!

    Hi These our our first chicks from our own chickens! we were obviously hoping for lots of hens but not looking so good....over 50% roos possibly?....please help! Chicks 1,2 and 3 are Bingo,Bango and Bongo a mix of a black sex link mum and silkie bantam cross dad: 1:Bingo 2: Bango...
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    Chicks first time in the garden!

    Hi Here's our 6 chicks in the garden for the first time-they are our first batch from our own chickens! think theres more than a couple of roos though....They're all mixed-3 larger are silkie/maran/other mixes and the 3 bantam are 2 silkies and a polish/pekin
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    4 week old runner ducklings!!! Any idea of colour or sex? PICS

    Hi there Here are our 2 runner ducklings, Nutmeg and Mustard, having a little run outside. They have just recently stopped peeping as much and making more quacking sounds, but nothing that distinct yet....Does anyone know what colour they might end up? Thanks!
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    Missing silkie hen...possibly broody???

    Hi there We free range our birds in the garden and our smallest silkie, poco, has recently gone missing. We're pretty sure she's broody as she was only about for a short time the last few days we saw her....didn't follow her though. The area of the garden we think she has chosen is very 'wild'...
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    broody runner and stolen/eaten eggs

    Hi there, We were looking for some advice about what could have been happening with our duck eggs...Our runner, Chilli, went broody a few weeks back and we gave her 6 eggs to sit on, about 10 days ago we found 1 half broken shell near her water and we feared rats might have got it. Then a week...
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    What colour runner ducklings?

    Hi there We have just hatched our first ducklings-Mustard and Nutmeg! They are both runners from a mixed colour flock but we were wondering if anyone has any idea what they will feather up as? we also have 6 eggs from the same source under our female runner who has gone broody and sitting very...
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    Results of mixed incubation duck, chicken and bantam....

    Hi there thought we'd share our recent hatch with you! we incubated runner duck eggs with the addition of chicken a week later to sync hatches....unfortunately we made an error with the bantam eggs and put them in couple of days after the chicken.....However, on day 26 we had the 2 fertile duck...
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    Incubating Call Duck and Runner Duck eggs...

    Hi there was hoping for a bit of advice if possible. We bought 6 runner eggs last week and the couple we bought them off gave us 3 call duck eggs as an added extra!! we couldn't really say no could we....... Anyway, we have come to realise that the call ducks may hatch before the runners (we...
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    What colour is our bantam pekin/cochin?

    Hi there We were hoping someone may be able to help us with the colour of our pekin cockerel.... we hatched him as a silver pekin, but don't think thats what he is as he's pretty dark. any ideas? thanks
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    Is this cockerel a leghorn?... and what sex is our sumatra?

    Hi there, we were hoping for some help with a couple of our chickens this is our 17 week old cockerel which we thought was a white leghorn, but he has a few splashes of brown and some black in the tail-is he just poor quality or a cross? don't mind either way as he's such a character! And this...
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    sex of sumatra and pekin 5 weeks?

    Hi there these are our last chicks of the year and wanted your opinions on sex? both 5 weeks and we're thinking the fluff the pekin is a roo?(does anyone know the colour?was meant o be silver?) and skuff the sumatra we really can't tell-pullet?? any help would be much apprciated!
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    Help sexing our mixed chicks from this year...

    Hey there Well, we've definitely stopped any more hatching for this year...but wanted your opinions on the sex our 6 chicks if possible: 1 Chamois Polish and 1 Silkie mix both 15 weeks ( we suspect polish is a pullet and silkie mix is a roo just from looking at them) 1 Silkie and 1 white...
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    what breed is our chick??

    Hi there We have a chick which we are having difficulty identifying and could use your help!.... Long story, but was bought as a sumatra egg, hatched into a possible shamo but now we're not so sure if it is.... Chick is 18 days in pics and as you can see is getting a large comb already and much...
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    Polish and silkie cross chicks....hens or roos??

    Hi We were hoping for a bit of help sexing our two 9 week old chicks - chamois polish and silkie cross. Neither have crowed yet and we know they're pretty tough to sex, but at the moment we think the polish may be a hen and the silkie cross a roo....they were our first chicks hatched under our...
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    saxony runner duck or drake??

    Hi We've had our 3 runner ducks for about 6 months since they were around 12 weeks old, but we've only ever had eggs from 2 of them. They stopped laying a couple of months ago and went into moult. Even though they were bought as ducks, we think the saxony may be a drake as she has started to...
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    sumatra hatched into.....shamo??

    We just did our first incubator hatch and have had a little surprise.....after buying 6 sumatra bantam eggs from ebay, only 1 candled as developing on 15th day so we were hopeful that it would hatch...it did...but its not a sumatra!!(i don't think) it is very pale in colour and has very long...
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    advice please....eggs moving at day 16!!

    Hi there, This is our first time using our incubator to hatch some bantam eggs and all seems to have gone well so far.....this morning, day 16, we noticed the eggs were moving and shaking quite a bit-earlier than we expected really....We were planning on stopping turning and going to lockdown on...
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