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    What color is this coturnix?

    Hatched from purchased eggs so no background available
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    I thought I had three peahens…

    Hatched these three last year from purchased eggs. I thought I had three peahens, but… now I’m thinking I must be blind or something? This is two peacocks and a peahen, isn’t it? 🤦‍♀️
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    Which cream legbar rooster is better?

    Only want to keep one cream split to opal legbar rooster over the winter. Which one of the two is a better choice?
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    Color ID my Guinea keets?

    I’m not very good at the Guinea fowl colors. What are these keets likely to be? I know the four dark ones are probably just pearls, but the rest? They all have stripes. Here are picks of the parent flock
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    Mess free chick feeder hack!

    I found a quick and easy way to make the plastic bottle/mason jar feeders actually mess free! Just find pill bottles that will squeeze into the holes, cut them in half, and slide them in! These particular pill bottles are from Walmart pharmacies in Canada, but I would expect any pill bottle...
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    What color is this guinea keet?

    What color is this keet? Parents are both regular pearls.
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    What color is this guinea?

    I have 5 pearl guineas, and this one. I thought he was white, but I’ve recently noticed he still has spots on his feathers. I thought white guineas were supposed to be solid white? Is he a really light porcelain? Or something else? Or just a white with spots?
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    Is this a sizzle? Any guesses on gender?

    I got a few eggs labeled as "Silkie" along with some other eggs I purchased this spring. Only one hatched, and this is the resulting bird. Am I correct in guessing it's actually a sizzle? And any idea what gender it is? It's so fluffy, half the time we can only tell which end is which by the...
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    Poult colors - which varieties can start off white?

    Wondering what turkey color varieties can start off white (if any) besides royal palm? I've got a royal palm tom, and a (best guess) golden phoenix tom, over 3 hens of various colors (Narragansett, burbon red, and something sort of calico). Half my poults are hatching out yellow, and growing in...
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    Hatchling Turkeys - why such a wide time range?

    So I’m on my second batch of turkey eggs right now. The first batch, I moved all 27 eggs to my hatcher for lockdown when I saw internal pips in some of the eggs on candling. 3 pipped and zipped within 2 days. Most of the rest pipped day 3 or 4, and then a few took another day. Second batch is...
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    What would you call these Ameraucana colors?

    I got an assortment of random Ameraucana chicks a couple years ago. These are two of my hens. Any idea what color/variety they would be? (both lay nice, light blue eggs) I'm thinking the grey-er one could be a silver, but what about the one with the buff colors?
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    Why does temperature spike when humidity falls to "zero"?

    I left my hatching incubator running after my last hatch, and let the humidity tray run dry. Checked it tonight, and the temp in there was reading 114F! Added water back to the pan, and as soon as the humidity started to climb back out of the "low" range, the temperature dropped back down to...
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    Sportsman 1202 auto turner problem

    My old Sportsman 1202 doesn't seem to be auto-turning properly anymore. Every time I check it, it's turned to the left. If I move it back to horizontal manually, it goes back to the left eventually. If I turn it all the way to the right, it eventually goes back to the left. But I never just open...
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    Mystery turkey pair, any idea what they are?

    So, I bought this pair of turkeys at an auction a few days ago. The box was labeled as "tiger bronze pair". However, all the photos I find online of tiger bronze are of turkeys with black breast/wings/sides. As you can see, these two are penciled just about everywhere. The closest matches I've...
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    Can a Beltsville tom breed Narragansett hens?

    Just wondering if a Beltsville tom could breed Narr hens, or if the size difference would be a problem. If it would work, any idea what the poults would turn out looking like?
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    Cocci and meat birds

    Well, none of my meat birds are actually sick, but I have one little RIR in a different tractor that's lethargic and I think has bloody poop (saw some residue on her backside). The chickens all free-range out of their tractors during the day, so if one tractor has something it's a safe bet they...
  17. cassiadawn

    Splay leg, or something else?

    I have one Am. Buff gosling that seems to have something a bit funny going on with its legs. His upper legs might be turning out a little (it's hard to tell, so if they are, it's not much), and his lower legs seem to be turning in and making him pigeon toed. Does this sound like something that...
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    How old before geese are fertile?

    How old do geese have to be before laying fertile eggs? I know some breeds can start laying before they're a year old, but are they likely to be able to hatch out goslings? I'm particularly wondering about the medium breeds, as I have American Buff goslings right now, and I'm looking for...
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    Eating geese, does age matter?

    I picked up a few Embden cross geese at an auction last month, and we're considering processing one of the ganders soon. No idea how old they are, but the goose laid some eggs, and the ganders were both trying to mate with her, so they're sexually mature at least. Will the gander still be good...
  20. cassiadawn

    Cornish X with GREEN leg injury - can we still eat this bird?

    I went out this morning to let the Nuggets (Cornish X) out of the tractor to free-range today, and the last chicken out of the tractor was limping. He wasn't putting any weight on his left foot, and once he was out he sat himself down and started eating grass while seated. On closer examination...
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