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    Cockerel?

    This is a Partridge Olive Egger chick (I think….it’s from MPC Blues/Greens assortment so could be any of Snowy Easter Egger, Blue Easter Egger, Cuckoo Bluebar, Partridge Olive Egger, Super Blue Egger, Silked Easter Egger, Blue Favaucana) who hatched May 10th, so nearing 4 weeks old now. I got...
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    Looking for pics of a Partridge Olive Egger Rooster...

    Hi! I'm pretty sure one of my Partridge Oliver Egger chicks from MPC is a roo. Curious to see what one looks like all grown up as an adult. It's hard to know when you search online when you type into the search if you're REALLY looking at a picture of a "Partridge Olive Egger"...and of course if...
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    Are blue favaucana chicks very small?

    Wondering about Blue Favaucana chicks…I’m pretty sure I got one in my MPC blue/green assortment (she looks exactly like the chicks in the MPC picture except she doesn’t have feathered legs…). She is VERY small and not growing like the others. She’s eating great, drinking great, pooping great...
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    Any guesses on this yellow chick?

    Ok peeps…I need some opinions! I ordered from MPC’s “Exclusive Blues & Greens Assortment” and two of the chicks are yellow. One is pretty definitely a snowy Easter Egger… she looks just like the photos of those chicks. But the other one has me stumped with a couple back spots on her head and...
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    Anybody good at matching the egg with the breed?

    Hi! Some of my girls started squatting about a week ago and our first egg appeared yesterday! Two more eggs were laid today and now I'm trying to figure out who laid what. Here are the breeds of the squatters: Standard White Cochin, Welsummer, Buff Golden (I know, but that's what MPC listed...
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    Majorly different growth rates in chicks?

    Do chicks grow at crazy different rates? I lost one last week at 10 days old who had pretty much just stopped growing, and so now I'm feeling so anxious about whether the rest are growing normally! I have one that seems SO much bigger and feathered in than the rest...if not for her I might not...
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    Baby chick not growing.

    Looking for some advice about a 10 day old baby chick (Welsummer) that has not grown. The top pic is her next to same age cuckoo maran and bottom pic is her with same age Welsummer. At about day 3 she had a bout of mucous poop that lasted a day...it was like stringy egg white type substance...
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    Which breed(s) is(are) best when you DON'T want a lot of eggs?

    We are down to just 2 hens at the moment…an 8-year-old Partridge Rock and 2-year-old Red Sex Link..and are considering increasing the flock this Spring. HOWEVER…my daughter is allergic to eggs, so we don't eat or keep eggs in the house. She isn't allergic to the chickens and we love them as...
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    mysterious death

    Had a sad shock on Saturday...I walked down to the chicken coop to tuck my girls in for the night and there was my sweet Australorp, lying dead on the floor. Rigor mortis had already set in...she was lying on her side with her legs and feet stretched out straight and her wings were back like she...
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    Molting chickens are shivering in the cold

    There seem to be many mixed opinions out there about chickens and cold weather...my question is, if two of my girls (I have a total of six) are shivering inside the coop from the cold (they are mid-molt), do I need to find a way to warm things up in there? Or is it OK for them to shiver? It's...
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    impacted crop

    I've read through some of the past posts on this, but wanted to see if anybody has any thoughts on my girl's situation... My 3 year-old salmon faverolle is midway through a hard molt and losing weight...I was worried she wasn't eating enough, so had been coaxing food and noticed for a couple...
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    Drinking A LOT of water

    Just wondering if anyone else has a hen that drinks A LOT of water every day. One of my Faverolles drinks at least 5x the amount of water that my other girls drink. She doesn't act sick or anything, just drinks and drinks and drinks. She seems to be in perfectly fine health apart from a bout of...
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    Can anyone identify these tracks?

    Wondering if anyone can help me identify these tracks. They appeared in the fresh snow inside my girls' run overnight and I just want to make sure I don't have a predator getting in that I need to worry about. Thank's for any help you're able to give!! :-) (My guess is that it's just...
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    If chickens are "shivering", is it time to add a heat source?

    I've been reading through posts about supplemental coop heating, but none have quite hit on my situation.... 4 of my 7 girls are molting (oye!! it's 20 degrees at night!!)...bare patches and everything....it's my first experience with molting birds as they're just 18 months old. When they sit...
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    Has anyone used the Avitech supplement "AviCalm"?

    I'm still fighting the feather picking battle going on four months now....have gotten lots of helpful advice here and have tried it all...thanks to EVERYONE who's been so great with offering suggestions!!! I've just found this product "AviCalm" and am going to give it a try...just curious if...
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    A good article on eggs and categorizations....

    Thought I'd share this article...if you ever wondered, it does a GREAT job breaking down the different categories of eggs..."Certified organic" etc. They even get the explanation right of why different chickens lay different colored eggs...
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    Do broodies not drink much water?

    Curious about anyone's experience with broodies drinking (or NOT drinking) water while 'setting'. And to elaborate a little bit: My Buff Rock girl has gone broody AGAIN...first time was a month ago and I was able to get her immediately into a raised 'cage' and she snapped out of it in about 3...
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    Looking for the Buff Orp / Light Brahma hatching eggs for sale....

    Hey out there My hard drive crashed and I lost ALL my bookmarks!! SUCH a drag...Anyways...one of my girls has gone broody again and I'm ready this time to get in some eggs...I searched, but I can't find the person who has the buff orp / light brahma cross eggs that's the sex link.... Hoping...
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    I've already ordered it, but what do you think?

    I decided to take the plunge and order something to "retro-fit" rather than build from scratch. Long story made short: I have two naughty, feather-picking girls I've separated from the rest of the flock by a wire partition in the back of the coop and they don't have much room OR access to going...
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    Aragonite for calcium?

    Heya out there Two things I'm curious about: Was just talking to someone who raises chickens about 'nutrition': First thing is that he said that offering aragonite is better than oyster shell for calcium...that it's more easily absorbed. Anybody out there using / know about aragonite as a...
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