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  1. flockmomma

    Sexing 7-8 week old barred chicks - Dominiques, BR, and Cochins

    We got these in my son's hatchery surprise order. Eight barred chicks in the mix. The first two are Cochins, the middle three have rose combs (assuming Dominiques), and the last three appear to be BR. Any thoughts on what genders I might have here? Sorry, I don't have better pictures of them...
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    Welsummer or Brown Leghorn? 6-8 week old chicks

    I have six of these chicks. There was one that I thought was a separate breed, due to crazy markings on its face, but I cannot tell it from the other five now that baby down is gone from its head, so I am guessing that it is possibly the same breed as the other five. I am pretty sure I have...
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    Mostly guessing gender, have a few "what breed is this?" thrown in on 6-8 week old chicks

    Anyone want to take a guess at the genders on these chicks? Pictures with multiple chicks have more than one bird in them. They are not pictures of the same bird, but groupings by type. I have three groups, the ones with the suspected Delaware or Columbian Rocks, the Jersey Giant or White...
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    Hatchery Surprise Order - very picture heavy!

    We are still at the breed guessing stage with our Hatchery surprise order from Cackle Hatchery. 1. Two Rouen ducks 2. Five chipmunk pattern chicks, straight combs, clean legs. 3). Unknown 4) 5) Unknown. Feathered feet, straight comb. Looks lighter feathered and...
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    Another from my Hatchery surprise order that is puzzling me

    This chick has a straight comb, clean yellow legs, and a pretty perky attitude. Any thoughts as to which breed it is?
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    Need help identifying these yellow and black spotted chicks - Cackle Hatchery Surprise chicks

    Wow, been a while since I was on here. We got out of chickens for about 18 months. They were pooping in my dairy goats' water, not cool, and we didn't have a contained set-up to keep them separate and healthy. Now we have a separate area, and my son is in charge of raising them. We got a...
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    Dying five month old chickens and non laying older pullets

    I haven't been on here much, as my goats are keeping me on my toes (breeding, roundworm issues, etc....). My pullets, hatched in March, haven't been laying since August. Some look to be missing a few feathers on their heads near their combs, and a few throughout their body. This is a variety...
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    Pullets not laying

    I have six BOs, five BAs, four RSLs, and three EEs that were all hatched mid-late March. Only one RSL is laying. All four RSLs started laying in July, and then in early August, they suddenly stopped. I think BO was laying too. There isn't much comb yet on the BAs and some of the BOs, so I...
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    Integrating younger chicks into the hen house

    I have 23-26 week old pullets/guineas/1roo in our coop. The babies, about 11-12 weeks old now, are in a separate, but close by, pen. All of them free range, btw, so they are all around each other already. They have just been going to different nighttime accommodations. The adults are RSLs...
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    23 week old BBB turkey with head chewed off?

    I went out to check for eggs earlier, and realized I could not find one of my guineas and my BBB turkey (jury was out on gender, but likely a hen). They range out on a pasture that is enclosed in field fencing. I checked for them, and still cannot find the guinea (she was gimpy, an easy...
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    Where are my eggs? 24 week old pullets stopped laying

    I have 4 RSLs, 6 BOs, and 5 BAs that are nearing, or at, laying age. my 3 EEs are near there but not quite there yet.c They are free range, btw. The RSLs started laying about six weeks ago. In the last week or two, I can only find an egg or two a day. Sometimes we get a lighter egg...
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    Found guinea eggs from a 19 week old guinea - good to eat?

    They were outdoors, under a yucca plant. I was walking the pasture looking for chicken eggs (dummies aren't laying in the henhouse),when I came across one of my 19 week old guineas under a yucca plant. The guinea boys nearby were talking to her, and I got her to get up (poor girl also got her...
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    Might as well get all my worrying out at once - watery stools

    We have been working out in the barn a lot the past two days, and I have heard a lot of "squirt" noises when the pullets and babies are pooping. Seems to be wet, more aptly described as watery, with little bits of gravel in it. Just very, very wet. It is water colored or very dark grey/brown...
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    Foot injury again

    I THINK this one is an actual foot injury this time. Still not sure what happened to Lucy three-four weeks ago. Anyway, my husband told me that when he put up the birds last night, one of the RSLs was gimping a bit. She was still gimping this morning. None of my RSLs had a crooked toe...
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    Crooked neck

    I have a nearly nine week old Hamburg that looked at first to have something swollen in its neck. So I caught it, and lo and behold, only a bony curve to its neck. No bulging crop, nothing. Just bone. The bone doesn't seem centered at all. Any thoughts? I have photos on my iPad, but I will...
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    Seven weeks old - Gender guesses? Hatchery Surprise chick order

    My chicks are seven weeks old. They are growing big time right now. I have a few that I will be retaking tomorrow because I can either not tell them apart or because they are blurry. Hence the gaps in my numbered list on here. I already have a list that I have been using to track my babies...
  17. flockmomma

    Processing an otherwise healthy Roo with bumblefoot

    We have an 19-20 week old RSL Roo, Stewie, that we were planning on processing soon. He has curled toes on both feet, has had them since he was a tiny chick, and under one toe on each foot we noticed bumblefoot spots today. He is otherwise perky, healthy, etc...just has those spots. Are we...
  18. flockmomma

    limping chicken - getting worse

    My crossbeaked EE pullet, the one on my head in my avatar, is limping this morning. I can find one spot that looks like it is peeling on the underside of her foot, but not bleeding, bloody, or raw looking at all. As far as I can tell there is no breakage. But when she runs she is running...
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    Who laid this egg?

    I know my RSLs are starting to lay. They are pushing 18.5 weeks old. My BOs and BAustralorps are about 18 weeks. My EEs are almost 17 weeks. I am pretty sure the darkest ones on the left are from an RSL. Not sure about the slightly more yellowish two in the middle, though since they are...
  20. flockmomma

    What should I do with this batch of pullet eggs?

    My pullets, the oldest batch of whom is 17.5 weeks old (four RSL pullets), just started laying. We found our first eggs on Sunday out in our garage. Good thing we finished building our barn on the same day. Today, my son found one of the RSLs around a hillside near the garage, and he found...
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