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    Wild Wood Duckling - Help!

    After a string of bizarre events leaving various baby animals at our doorstep, today we came home to find a wild duckling sitting smack dab in the middle of our driveway. He lead us on a brief chase before giving in and letting us carry him to safety where he promptly fell asleep in my hands...
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    3 Day Old Chick... Crowing?!

    This is Persimmon. He is the only chick in our current brood that were %100 sure about sex. So obviously he can be expected to be strutting about like he owns the place in only a matter of weeks. Or perhaps, days? I really want to try to capture it on video, but he's a tricky bugger. It's...
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    The Mystery Chick! Breed possibilities?

    So we recently just hatched a grab-bag of eggs from our own flock and from a farm down the street. The potential parents range from sex-links to Araucanas to Silkies, Leghorns, and various Reds. Her face pattern resembles somewhat of a Husky dog. She has slight leg feathering, and splotchy...
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    Egg pipped, has been cracking, a couple days have passed. edit: WAITAMINUTE

    I've got one duck egg in the incubator from a nest of 6, the other 5 hatched fine with their mother this morning. The egg inside pipped a couple days ago and seems to have been making steady progress but after forming a pretty solid crack a quarter way around the egg, nothing new has happened...
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    Rooster "grabbing" and "picking up" chicks.

    So I have a silkie rooster named Sumo, he has spent most of his life sharing a home with another roo who was much bigger and scarier than Sumo could have hoped to be. For a large portion of Sumo's life, we thought he was a hen. He looked and acted like one, anyway. Sumo has been relocated to a...
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    Possible eye infection. Further spread prevention?

    As of today, two of my roosters have come down with some sort of eye infection. There's no swelling, some puss, and its pushed their eye way back into their head. The second one we spotted today, I wiped off some eye foam with my shirt and brought him inside to clean out the puss. His eye has...
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    Hen throwing leaves on her own back?

    I have a small EE hen named Pidgy. These past couple days, after leaving the nesting box she starts picking up dried leaves and feathers off the ground and proceeds to toss them over her shoulder onto her back. What's that about?
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    8 Month old Silkie Roosters in need of new home ASAP (Southern NH/Northern MA)

    As it goes with hatching at home, many of our little ones have ended up as boys. With Spring swiftly marching over the horizon, hormones are taking over and we have to thin the number of roosters in our flock. The boys we're offering up here are actually the sweetest ones in the bunch. They need...
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    Sudden unwarranted aggression towards eachother

    Maybe not completely "unwarranted" do to their condition. Out of my initial two quail broods, a series of unfortunate events left me with three boys and only one surviving female. Their genders hadn't been immediately apparent because of one quail being a golden-white color was very difficult to...
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    Very young chick too curious/aggressive.

    We picked up a small batch of bantams today and brought them home and set them up nice and cozy in their brooder. After a few hours we began noticing one if the Cochin chicks curiously biting other chicks on the beak and legs. She's very small, appears only a week old or so. One of her siblings...
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    Chicken biting at he air/nothing

    I was recently given a 3 month old barred rock Pullet with a bad leg (possible slipped tendon, treatment is a work in progress). She's been settled down in a nesting box in the bathroom with a cage around her(she has a tendency to leap out of the box, the cage has remedied that) and every time...
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    Silkie and Easter Egger sexing help please! (Lots of pictures)

    Most of the chicks in our pen have passed the 6 week mark, aside from a handful. We've decided it's time to start trying to identify their genders. I'll post pics of the ones I was able to hold still long enough for a photo, and our best guess as to what we think they might be. Now, I only want...
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    Afraid to be caught, fine being held

    This is Spike, he is coming along about 5 months old now. He was given to me as a chick after all of his siblings were eaten by skunks. We received him and his only surviving sister, Midnight, who had not received as much direct handling as Spike. Spike was pretty chill, not nearly as jumpy as...
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