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    Any help would be awesome to help ID breed

    Received some chicks from a girl who works at hoovers hatchery and hen decided she didn't want them. Not sure on breed tho. They should all be around 2 months old as they were 10days old on June 10th. Any ideas would be awesome I could narrow it down by matching what hoovers has available...
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    Chick breed?

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    Gender of embden geese

    I tried my hand at vent sexing them and well.. Idk how I did. I'm thinking two are male and three female.. Any guesses?
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    Absolute sick! Mass murder

    Something got into the coop and ripped the heads off and took the heads (or ate them) and left the body! I had 12 silver laced 12 ISA Browns and 3 leghorn. I'm absolutely sick, what does this and what do I need to do to kill it.
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    Feeling frusterated with my hatchability!

    So I started last year with a still air Styrofoam incubator, first hatch was 30 duck eggs and 100% hatched! This year we started off with chicks and had 90% ish hatch rate and was very happy but had still air and was turning by hand. We plan to hatch and sell all spring so we decided to upgrade...
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    Hatchery mixed up chicks!

    So we ordered 9 silver laced, 9 ISA Browns, 1 leg horn, 3 Americans, and 10 red Rangers broilers.. Well they mixed everybody up and the broilers were suppose to go to someone else... I actually drove back to the hatchery to get them sorted and she was of absolute no help... The silver laced and...
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    Collecting duck eggs for incubation

    Last year we collected almost 40 eggs from my snowy mallard, but after many days worth of hunting for her nest since she continued to move it. Any tricks on collecting eggs without making her leave and keeping her laying for the longest possible amount. From what I understand if you take a an...
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    Snow mallard help

    I purchased a pair of snow mallard around July last year so they are over 6 months of age now. I was told they would hatch their own babies. Right now they are sleeping in my chicken coop with my 6 laying hens, in the corner on the ground. And free ranged during the day. I noticed there was an...
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    first eggs question

    Started collecting my first eggs and they are way bigger then I thought! And when I cracked one open.... And when I cracked another Haha that's right 2 eggs and 6 yolks! But for the last 3 weeks the eggs are getting smaller, less shell, and some shell less and last 2 weeks no eggs at...
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    gender of my barred rocks

    Any ideas? These are my first batch of chickens and I'm clueless on sexing them.
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    breed of ducks?

    Any ideas? Male female breed? Around 13 weeks. Any information on the breed? [/IMG]
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