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  1. wolfinator

    Roo or pullet by wing feathers

    This little one has a Starlight Olive Egger momma and a Partridge Silkie daddy, was hatched about 12:30 am EST last night (6/12/25). Little bit of a surprise because most of the eggs I allowed my one broody hen and 2 of my broody Runner ducks to set on were guinea eggs. I'd forgotten about the 2...
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    What potential color will these 2 guineas look like when older?

    I just got a couple guineas yesterday hatched on 6/8/25, they're 3 days old today. I'm curious about what color each potentially may become as they grow. It may be a little hard to tell, but the darker one is more of a medium/dark gray with brown feathered in something between a molted and a...
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    Question on hatching several species in same incubator...

    I need advice on hatching 4 poultry species in same incubator. My hope is to try to hatch 2-3 duck eggs, up to 7 guinea eggs, 3-4 standard chicken eggs and 3-4 Silkie bantam eggs all in the same incubator. I only have one incubator and 1 brooder tank for guineas and chickens. I've raised all...
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    What color and possible pattern is the reddish brown duckling turning out to be?

    The white one is a Crested Runner, her roommate is also a Runner. I haven't seen his color before and would like to know what his is. I thought he was a fan & white, but doesn't look color wise like my adult one. They're almost 6 weeks, the Crested is already quacking (about 10 days now), he's...
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    Crested Indian Runner - have questions and advice needed

    I've been raising khaki Campbell's ducks since 2017. In 2019 I ended up with a lone KC duckling when his sister died, I bought a pair of Indian Runner ducklings about the same age (3-5 days old). August 2020 I ordered 10 female Runner ducklings through a hatchery, I ended up with one being a...
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    Silkie Colors

    I have 4 Silkies, 2 roosters and 2 hens that are 6-7 months old. Oddly they are color paired. My question is what are their colors called? One hen is solid black (Mrs. Chevy), the other looks like roo in photo #1 (she's called Mrs. Ford). Little background on their names. I lost both my adult...
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    Help with sex of guinea...

    This guinea is a little was found outside my mixed flock pen several days ago. I have an adult male and 3 juveniles (2 males, 1 female). At first I thought one of mine got out, but it wasn't any of them. Where it came from, I have no clue but it's made itself at home with my juveniles. None of...
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    Female or male?

    I bought 3 several day old guineas about 2 1/2 weeks ago, so they're about 3 weeks now. This one sounds slightly different with the vocals than the other 2. There's almost a 2 part vocal when it chirps. You decide, my gut says female.
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    Oxytetracycline conversation needed

    I have a 9 month old CC Broiler with some nasty whiteish smelly junk coming out her vent. Up to a few weeks ago she was laying nice huge eggs 3-4 times a week, then stopped. At the time everything looked ok. Today I noticed a foul smell in the coop and when I picked her up, it was her. I have...
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    Breed of these babies...

    So my boyfriend's grandson talked us into caring for a pair of ducklings he wanted at Rural King a few days ago. He actually lives in another state and isn't zoned for poultry. He's planning on moving about 3/4 miles up the road so he's getting a jump on acquiring some ducks for the pond that'll...
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    Roo or pullet C.C. broiler

    Some of you may have read my previous post about a friend's problems involving her broilers. Well, after my friends mishap with getting her broilers processed, she had a few that weren't and she decided not to since they were doing much better than the others. She ended up giving them to me a...
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    Friend needs help...

    A good friend (and me) decided to get a bunch of broiler chicks, hers are around 13-14 weeks now. She got the flu and had someone else that was supposed to care for them while she got better. Problem is, they never cleaned the coop out and now her birds sound croupy. She asked me if they were...
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    Help with niacin conversion...

    Ok, I'm not the greatest with converting milligrams to tsp so I could really use some help. I had to go back to chicken feed for my ducks since it over $10 a 50# bag cheaper so I bought an 8.8oz (250g) bag of 500mg powdered niacin for them. For the life of me, my brain isn't figuring out how...
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    Crows eating my duck's eggs...

    My 21 (12 females, 9 drakes) ducks are semi free ranged in a 27ft x 50ft fenced area which is our garden and often lay eggs wherever (a few will use their coop). We totally free range when home during the day. Often we have crows in the yard but never bothered anything or went into the fenced...
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    My rooster and hen are fostering chicks...

    I'm currently raising broiler chicks, they outgrew the 4x4 brooder and a cold spell was coming. My only coop big enough to accommodate all of them was occupied by an older pair of disabled chickens, a buff Brahma rooster named Bram with a brain trauma injury (a rooster attacked him) and a golden...
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    Removing spurs on older hen

    I've acquired recently a golden comet hen who's about 4 years old. Problem is she has a 3" spur on one leg (photo) and a 2" one on the other plus her nails are seriously long. I've had multiple hens with spurs but not this long so usually I leave them alone. She doesn't like being held at all so...
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    Bought as a pullet, is it???

    This baby is 3 months old, was sold as a starlight olive egger pullet, just making sure it is. I'm going with all Brahma roosters and don't need another Easter Egger rooster, my last one had to be culled due to aggressive behavior. We suspected he killed my Cuckoo Marans rooster a week ago...
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    Cockerel or Pullet?

    Well, here I go again having selected pullets from one of our local supply stores and am questioning on one of them. I was told the chicks were about 7-9 days old so they were hatched between 6/1-3/22, making them about 3 months old now. I bought 6 buff Brahmas and 2 Starlight Eggers to go with...
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    What's the youngest you've had a duckling quack?

    My Runner ducklings are one month old as of yesterday (5/11/22). The fawn/gray one is already doing periodic quacks. Quite loud and definitive. None of my other ducklings ever quacked this early. I'm just glad she's a she. Well it sounds as if both are girls, chocolate one gave a quick quack as...
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    Best humidity for hatching duck eggs

    Over the summer after having a broody Runner duck abandon eggs once 4 hatched (sold 3 of 4). I had removed ducklings to encourage her to sit on remaining 5 eggs. However, several days later, she abandoned them and my chickens destroyed all but 1 egg which was partially crushed. Duckling didn't...
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