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    Pure White Ameraucana/Legbar Hybrid.

    I would love to pick the brains of genetic pros out there. I have a CCL hen in with a Lavender Cuckoo Ameraucana roo and I've had quite a few offspring from this match. This spring I ended up with two that are pure white.One Pullet and one Cockerel. So, they both carry double blue egg...
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    Help! Cockerel got hung up in a tree by the foot

    Hi you emergency help people. Yesterday while my birds were out ranging one 12 week old cockerel got his foot stuck in the low branches of a palm tree. When I came across him he was on the ground with his foot still stuck between the fronds. He'd clearly been struggling as there was a large...
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    Chicks wing feathers sticking up.

    Is anyone out there familiar with this? This chick has her wing feathers sticking straight up like a swan! Is there something I should do? I've googled it and only come up empty.
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    Asian market eggs

    I was in Vancouver last month and in an Asian market and bought a package of quail eggs. 24 eggs for $4. I have quail here at home but their eggs average 10g, the largest ever being 13. I weighed these ones and the smallest was 14 grams and several at 16 and 17 so the day before I left to come...
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    Silver Sussex Male Cream Legbar Female

    I didn't have many eggs to put in the incubator but got this gorgeous wee thing. I can't even imagine what she is going to feather out like.
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    New Broody steals Expectant Broodies Nest!

    So I have a broody who's been sitting on eggs three weeks now. I'm expecting chicks tomorrow. She happened to go broody the very day I started a batch of eggs in my incubator and I have one egg in there pipping just now. So her eggs are imminent. However, just this afternoon I went out to...
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    Are there any obvious downsides to raising roosters only to breed and then culling?

    I currently have several Young roos as I want to keep a couple of breeds true but as anyone knows keeping multiple roosters can be problematic on many fronts. I was wondering about the viability of using the Roos for the breeding program only and then when I get a new hatch, knowing I have...
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    Roosters withOUT hens turning aggressive

    I'm a little confused about the behaviour of some of my roosters. I have several of them.I have a very large open free range pen with most of my hens and two roosters, a smaller breeding pen with a rooster with two hens and another breeding pen with a rooster with four hens. All of the roosters...
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    Is it ok to eat meat of a bird you butcher and find out there is a liver problem?

    Hi Folks, I posted the other day about a bird I butchered for eating only to find out that it's liver was grossly enlarged. No one in the disease illness section was able to assist. I'm wondering if any of you good people have come across this before? Here is the link to more info in my...
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    Extremely enlarged liver **GRAPHIC PHOTOS**

    Happy Monday everyone, I'd like some insight into today's experience if anyone has it . I went over to a friend's to butcher two Roos to show them how the process goes. After plucking, I showed where I cut in under the breastbone explaining how all the organs fall to the bottom leaving...
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    First coloured egg!

    I know it's old hat to many of you but I hatched out several chicks of different pure breeds last autumn and got my first egg today from one of them. The photo is rubbish as it was taken with my ipad but its a picture none the less. The egg is from a Cream Legbar named Drizzle. She is 23...
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    Want to trade your eggs for a Week in Sunny Bahamas?

    A little unorthadox maybe but I am willing to offer a weeks accomodation in our cottage on the island of Exuma in the Bahamas for the following: 18 fertile Black Copper Marans eggs and half a dozen either Rhodebar or BLRW eggs mix could be 16/8 as well. I brought down 11 FBCM eggs last...
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    Is it just my patience that needs fixing? Coturnix not laying yet.

    Hi everyone. My quail turn 13 weeks this Thursday and I've not seen an egg yet. In fact I've not seen the males shagging them either. (is it like chickens that they only shag when the hen is ready?) I'm a first time quail owner and hatched these ones. I've not even tasted a quail egg yet...
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    This bird never should have hatched...I have no history on him. Any guesses?

    This brute is really a miracle. I live on a remote island and friends of friends came from their home and brought eggs for eating. When they left the island they then gave these eggs to our friends...who in turn gave them to us. This was three weeks later. I was given three eggs. They'd spent...
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    Now how to separate them....any ideas?

    Last time I asked I got some great advice here. So I'm going to pick your brains further. This is my first time at quail so bear with me as I learn. My last issue was being that I can't get materials on the island here for an absurd amount of time (this will ALWAYS be an issue, LOL) I had...
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    Need advice on quail housing

    Hi all, I have a bit of an issue that I need advice on. A week ago I hatched 23 coturnix and they are my first go at quail. The problem is that I am in a small island and getting welded wire here is taking far longer than anticipated. (Par for the course here) Now what I do have is the...
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    Wyandotte sexing help

    I only hatched one of these. I've never even seen a Wyandotte other than photos before. So I'm coming to the experts. This one is Eight weeks today. Am I safe to assume it is a pullet (*crosses her fingers**) Thanks in advance! :-)
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    Leg problem on hatchling, must I cull?

    I finally hatch a Bielefelder pullet and I think I have to put her down, She can't walk whatsoever, it's not straddle leg. She was hatched on rubber shelving liner but she can't lift herself up on her legs. I can manipulate the joints. They are fine but she can't pull her self up, she...
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    Off her feed

    Hi everyone. I wonder if I can get some insight from anyone who may have an idea what is wrong with my hen. She is nine months old, started laying about a month ago, she was a late starter. She hasn't laid for about two weeks now. But I wasn't concerned as the days are shorter. The day...
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    Amaraucana owners, i need your experience

    Hi all, I live on a small island and the only chickens anyone has here are barnyard mutts. That's all I've ever had. Now a while ago we had neighbours come and visit and when they left they gave us their leftover food. Including 3 eggs. I recognised them as Easter Eggers and as i had just had...
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