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    Double checking gender on hatchery sexed polish chicks

    Hi everyone! I was hoping that I can some sort of reassurance that these 3 particular polish chicks don't look like boys! They are sexed by Hoover's Hatchery as pullets but I want to be as sure as possible. I heard polish can be sexed by the shape of the crest as chicks. I just would like to...
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    New chicks eye problems?

    I picked up a box of 10 polish chicks from the post office yesterday morning. Their eyes were not like this at first. Are these injuries from being pecked? One of the chicks is running around making all the other chicks yell. Pecking, grabbing fluff, wings, and toes. How should I treat this? I...
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    Hoover's Polish and Crested Assortment?

    Most of them are yellow so I'm guessing they are buff laced polish? The two really pretty grey ones I'm hoping are silver laced polish. The last two would be white crested black polish? Thank you so much for the help!
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    TSC Polish Chick Delivery

    I ordered 10 chicks off of TSC from Hoover Hatchery on September 1st and they were shipped out on the 6th. USPS says they won't be here until Saturday but I was holding out hope that they'd arrive this morning. There's a bit of a heat wave going on here in North Eastern PA so I'm pretty...
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    8 week old Silkie with 2 huge swollen ear holes filled with solid white matter

    I was outside checking on my chickens this morning and I noticed that one of the 8 week old silkies was falling behind in size. I picked her up and was shocked to see that her ears were swollen to the size of small marbles and filled with a solid white gunk. I brought her in immediately and...
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    Building First Coop (New to building)

    Me ant my fiance celebrated this Valentines day by starting building a new chicken coop. I got a milter saw for myself Christmas and I've been eagar to learn everything I can. Planning to have an external nestboxes and a metal roof. Any tips are appreciated. This was progress so far. Day One...
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    Introducing new birds

    I picked up a pair of polish last night. I'm super happy with them but I'm a bit conflicted about how to introduce them to my existing birds. I already have one rooster. He was born in May of 2022 and is pretty reasonable with most situations you would expect a rooster to care about. The new...
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    Help with gender on 5 Serama

    I have two 3 month old old Seramas from the very first hatch from my own birds. Betty (white) is suspected to be a hen and Gandolf (greyish) I am confused about. The 5 1/2 week old chicks are very cool colors but they seem suspiciously rooster-like for so young lol. I've heard no crowing thus...
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    Might be moving to a farm at long last

    I am a long standing member of this forum since I was young. Keeping poultry has been a huge dream of mine my entire life. My family is a parrot family. It's the family pet species and I love them. However my uncle bought us those "easter chicks" when I was small and I could never fully wrap my...
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    California Quail only laying infertile eggs

    Can anyone offer advice on why my California quail pair would be consistently laying clear eggs and how to fix that? I also need advice on getting them to stop laying if that's part of the fix because they just make a new nest if I take what they have away.
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    Helping a wobbly chick?

    We have 11 chicks that hatched here. 6 of which hatched from a broody hen, and the rest from the incubator. One of them came out of the egg in the bator onto its back and has ended up back in that position frequently over the past few days. No apparent leg issues or neck issues. Just stumbling a...
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    Oops! Broody hen mistake! Might need candling help!

    I have a concern. I assumed both of my egg laying age hens stopped laying eggs when one went broody until I found out the other one was contributing to the broody's nest. Lifted her up to take a look at the eggs a day or two ago and it looks like the 2 pullets are laying now as well...in her...
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    Color ID possibly breed ID the whole flock

    Does anyone know what colors these chicks might turn out to be? They are hatched from my own flock but I really could use some help with their breed. 4 birds were sold to me as serama eggs from ebay and 2 additional hens as serama hens. I have been told by someone very rudely that these are not...
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    Late Quitters and Chicks pipping at the wrong end/suffocating during hatch

    I'm searching for a reason that my serama/bantam chicken eggs are consistently quitting late into the hatch, pipping from the wrong end, and I've had a few suffocate while waiting for them to zip. I also hatch button and coturnix quail and I'm getting well over 80% hatch rate with them using the...
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    How can I tell if eggs are late quitters?

    I have 8 serama (possibly japanese bantam mixes since some people aren't honest about what they are selling) eggs entering day 21. I feel as though these eggs are not filled out properly and I haven't seen much movement. Is there anyway to know if they are late quitters? Some looked more...
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    Two hens taking turns on a single nest?

    Okay so I bought Henny and Penny about 2 months ago since I only ended up with 2 hens out of my first hatch and once I realized it could be mid october before my own birds will start laying I found them. I noticed about 3 days ago Penny has been sitting in the nestbox on the 4 ceramic eggs I put...
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    Quail available soon in Northeastern PA

    I have button quail, coturnix quail, and currently California quail eggs incubating. I have fertile button and coturnix hatching eggs available as well. If anyone has any interest I am near Wilkes Barre PA. Zip code is 18634. I am looking mostly for local pickup. I am willing to trade chicks for...
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    Hatching on the wrong side?

    I noticed 2 eggs have pipped but it's in the middle more towards the pointy end of the egg. Is this something to be concerned about? Is there something I did to cause this? 6 eggs are due for hatching today or tomorrow. I'm pretty sure one is a late death so I'm a little but concerned. I'd...
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    Advice on culling a rooster

    I have a 4 month old old serama rooster that I'd like to both not deal with anymore and ideally not give him away either. He's aggressive with people, hens, and other roosters. Will even chase the dogs. I feel like letting him breed is a bad idea because maybe his temperament is spreadable to...
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    September Serama and Quail Hatching!

    I have 6 serama eggs that I just locked down in my Brinsea Mini Advance Ii. But I have the one nuture right 360 loaded with more serama eggs and the the other nuture right 360 filled to capacity with button, coturnix, and california quail eggs! So excited as these are eggs from all of my own birds!
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