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    These are BBS (Blue, Black, Splash) Marans - Are they all cockerels?

    I got three straight run BBS Marans and unfortunately they're all looking like males to me. They're 9-10 weeks old. The last one is only just getting tail feathers and I had originally thought this one was the only male, but now I'm second guessing myself...
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    Hen with swollen abdomen

    She's almost 2 years and suddenly over Christmas break her belly got swollen. She since has acted with lower energy but she eats and drinks, poops, her comb is red. She waddles around like a penguin. I thought at first she was egg bound, but obviously since she's still with us thats not the...
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    Chickens not laying - I've tried everything!

    I've got 7 hens of varied breeds (Americana, Buff Orpington, silver sebright, d'uncle mille fleur, blue maran mix, red leghorn mix), they're not more than 1.5years old. They haven't laid well for about 6 months, I haven't had eggs in over a month! At first I thought it was their food, so I...
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    Eggs hatching at 22-25 days under a bantam mama

    My first time broody mama has been sitting on her eggs 25 days now and has had 3 chicks hatch, with 2 surviving (hatched at 22, 23 and 24 days). This morning there is evidence of another beginning to hatch. I'm wondering how normal this is for them to hatch so "late". I set them under her on...
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    Weird broken beak?

    [VIDEO] So we have this chick, she's approximately 6 weeks old, we've been trying to figure out what's wrong with her beak. At first it looked like her top beak was growing too quickly but now we think that the bottom one may have broken because the visible part has not grown in weeks...
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