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    Possible myco

    I find myself more than a little concerned! My two araucanas have been a bit off for a couple of days. A bit head-shaky and sniffly. So the other night, I had a look at them after dark and both had a lot of bubbles in their eyes. This is not the first time I've had to treat respiratory...
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    Jersey giant gender?

    How early can you tell what gender a JG chick is? I've got one 3.5 week old, but no others to compare it to except a vorwerk (which is definitely a boy, but I'm told they tend to show early). Best pics I can get as it's with a hen and rather skittish!
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    Two week old boys

    Yes? The faverolles on the left definitely is, he has black wings and I've no doubt the blue marans is, although he's hiding his face here. Biggest comb of the lot and in charge already. The welsummers I wasn't sure about but it looked likely that they were all boys at a day old. I posted...
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    Welsummer chicks

    These lovelies hatched this morning. I thought I had all boys when I collected them (had them incubated by someone else after a broody changed her mind) but now they're fully dry I'm thinking possibly two of each. I've not had them before though. Sorry for fuzziness, my camera is broken...
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    Thoughts on breed please?

    I picked these little one up a couple of weeks ago as someone was downsizing their flock. They described them as millefleurs but nothing else. They are teeny with rose combs, and lay cream eggs. Any thoughts?
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    Random rumpless gene?

    I have a barnevelder who appears to be rumpless! Just been having a quick read about and I see that this can be accidental or possibly a random mutation. As I can't find any reference to rumpless barnevelders anywhere I'm guessing that's likely to be the case here? I didn't see her parents...
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    Olive eggers and green eggers

    Interesting stuff, this. I have 8 three week old chicks; four olive and four pale green eggers. Yesterday I was chatting to a friend of the breeder, who has some older olive egger chicks from the same parents, and one of her hens has just laid a normal coloured egg. Reading around, there is...
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    Feather sexing chicks

    I'm getting conflicting answers from people and google, so I'm posting for clarification. I have a clutch of 8 chicks with a hen. 5 days old. I'm not going to do anything with any boys until they can be reliably sexed by comb/wattles at 6-8 weeks old, but I'm still looking and curious to see...
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    Possible stroke?

    My bluebell has lost the use of her wings and is being slightly off. One wing went a few days ago and I thought it might have been an injury but yesterday the other started to droop as well. If I extend them there is no response as well, they just hang. Yesterday evening her sight or visual...
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    Changing egg colour?

    I have a cream legbar, ish (Not good quality or a dash od something else in there). Rehomed, and the previous owner took her on as an adult 21 months ago so no idea how old she is. I was told she lays blue eggs. She doesn't! Or at least, she didn't- until today. I'e had her 3 months and she...
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    Possible sour crop

    This girly has an absolutely enormous crop which is squishy, not firm. Bout the size of a grapefruit (she's 2.5kg so a big girl already). There is also an unpleasant smell if I sniff her beak, so I'm assuming I'm dealing with sour crop. She looked normal before today, but has been slightly...
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    How to age a chicken?

    I wasn't quite sure where to put this so I hope it's in the right place! I took on some rehomers last weekend and two of them are of age unknown. The owner had known them for 18 months (sister had them prior to her) but as they were rehomers for her too, she doesn't know how old they are...
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    Goldtop hen size?

    Yesterday I adopted four hens in need of a new home, and among them is what appears to be a goldtop hen. She's a little smaller than the others as I'd expect (bluebell, warren and maybe-CLB). But, she weighs 2kg! Which seems a bit large for what I understand is a bantam hybrid. I can't find...
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    Eggs going funny

    I have my new girlies at last! They've been here for two weeks now. Four of them, they are 2 year olds from a laying flock who have slowed down a bit so were being rehomed. The eggs have been... interesting. From the start, it's always been one giant double yolker, two normals, and one...
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    Next boxes

    How many and how big? I have four new girls - gold line ranger, pied suffolk, rhode rock and speckeldy. 2yo so laying is a little slower. I've just made one rather rubbish looking box out of bits of scrap pallet wood to serve for now, but I'd like to make or buy something a bit better and...
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    Getting some chickens - how best to integrate them?

    As soon as I've got the accommodation finished, I will finally be getting my very first chickens! Thing is though, I've got a rooster coming from a friend, and three 2 year old hens who live together currently from my local chicken shop. What would be the best way to introduce the boy to his...
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    Another colour question!

    I have this roo. Gorgeous boy, classic gold colour but with pure white pins. A bit more striking than he looks here. In the flock are panda, tibetan, tibetan tuxedo, silver lace, italian and silver genes. Does this colour have a name, or do I get to name it?
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    Builder's sand?

    I've seen a few people mention this as a substrate and I've been considering it. Presently, my quails (37 coturnix, 6 buttons) are all indoors and require an absurd amount of cleaning out, resulting in at least 6 black bags of woodshavings a week to be disposed of (they have to be cleaned out...
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    Dog cages for coturnix?

    I'll need to start introductions between my four groups soon, but I don't have any big, easily moveable cages that will fit in the main pen to do it. Just a heavy hutch that will be awkward if not impossible for me to get in there (I have no help). What I do have though is a spare dog cage...
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    Dilute italian? And another colour

    I've got 7 hens from the breeder that I can only describe as dilute italian. The markings are there, both the dark flecks on the body and the face markings but everything is washed out. All 7 birds are virtually identical. I have proper gold/blondes now as well as regular italians, and these...
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