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    horselover1999's 2025 flock

    A continuation of this hatch-a-long... https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/flock-restart-hatch-along.1651317/ All 11 (I had a 100% hatch rate!) are happily in the brooder. I know who some of these chicks are, but some of them I am guessing on because they hatched overnight. In egg #...
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    Flock restart hatch-along

    Long intro, stay with me... I had a flock if chickens in high school and a little into college. I majored in Poultry Science, and thought I was going to get a job in the poultry industry, where you can't have your own birds (biosecurity), so we let them live out their days until they died...
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    ISO Bantam Ancona eggs

    This is probably a long shot, but would anyone in the US have bantam Ancona hatching eggs? I found a breeder for LF Anconas, but not bantam. Preferably in OK, AR, TX, KS, or MO, but can ship if needed.
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    Sexing Ancona chicks

    I have a theory that I will be testing soon, I don't know exactly when, but soon. I am waiting on a breeder to get back to me about hatching egg or chick availability. The last time I raised Ancona chicks, I noticed a pattern in their head coloring. Two of them had a large black dot after the...
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    Caption this!

    Just for fun...
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    Done zipping...keeps rotating?

    This chick is on day 22, pipped on day 21. It is done zipping but keeps rotating like it is trying to keep zipping. Most of the chicks hatched yesterday with one hatching early this morning. What do I do?
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    Bantam Langshan growth

    Since I have not seen many pictures of Langshans- especially bantams- as they grow I have decided to document my chicks as they grow. These are Blue/Black/Splash from a breeding pair of blues. The pullet won reserve of breed at the most recent show and the cockerel didn't win any major awards...
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    Has anyone tried this?

    I was at my state FFA agriscience fair. One of the projects was "does the rate of egg laying increase to different types of music." The group that layed the most eggs was jazz music. Since chicks are precocial, would this increase the hatch rate? I might try this as an agriscience fair project...
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    Langshan or Sumatra?

    I don't know if this chick is a Langshan or Sumatra. They were all supposed to be Langshans but he wasn't paying much attention when I got them. Out of seven chicks, two are for sure Sumatras and four are for sure Langshans. There is only one I am not sure about. It has yellow legs like a...
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    Hen not being accepted into flock.

    My silkie hen went broody last month. After 3 eggs were cracked by the others, my dad let me seperate her. None of the remaining eggs hatched. I moved her back out to the coop early this morning. After thirty minutes the pecking order was worked out with her above the bantams and below the...
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    How long can a broody hen be off of her nest?

    My broody's eggs are on day 9. Last night I moved her nest to a portable nest box. My dad lets them out at 4-4:30 am. When I got home at 4:00 pm she was in her original nest and the eggs were cold. Will the eggs still hatch after a maximum of 12 hours off the nest? I don't know when she got off...
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    How to train chickens to roost at night?

    I have four 16 week old cochins, two red sex-links, and four 10 week old silkies. At night, they go into the coop and huddle in the corner. I have only found them on the roost by themselves two times and that was when the cochins and reds were about 10 weeks old. I have put them all on the roost...
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    coccidiosis or digestive irritation?

    I have a 2 week old silkie chick with some poop problems. Her poop is sometimes runny and red or solid and normal. Her vent does not look normal and there is blood running down her butt. I am switching over their feed and right now it is 50% original/50% new. I saw her eat when I set the food...
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    Blue cochin feathering in white?

    I got some chicks over spring break and there is a little pullet that is confusing. I got her as a blue cochin and since then she has feathered in white. I was wondering why she is white, what genotype she is, and what color chicks could she produce with a partridge roo? When I got her 6 weeks...
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    Hello from horselover1999

    Hi, I am a 15 year old girl that lives in Oklahoma. I am in a 4-H light horse club and soon to be poultry club member. I am also a member of my local FFA chapter. I have two dogs, Maggie, a "lab" mutt that looks nothing like a lab at all, and Dulce de Leche, an Australian Shepard. I love riding...
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