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    Help, Hot feet and panting!

    Help please! I have a 6 months pullet who my kids just found laying on her side. She’s breathing heavy panting and her legs and feet are burning up. Fever? Cause? Remedy?! All other birds seem fine.
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    Aggressive Hens?!

    I hatched a batch of 28 back in March they are 19wk5days old. About 1.5 months ago I culled out 10 roosters. The ones I wasn’t sure about I kept in a separate pen. Sure enough another 7 are roosters. They are all in a pen together , next door to the coop. A couple of them don’t crow but look...
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    Cull or keep

    Trying to decide if I’m in denial. I hatched 28 eggs on March 27 and now I’ve got to cull out the roosters. I’ve already culled 7 that I was sure about. I’ve got 8 more, but I’m thinking 2 might possibly be pullets. In the photos, the questionables are the mostly white one with brown, and the...
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    When can you tell feather pattern and sex?

    Hi all! I hatched 29 chicks 10 days ago. I got the eggs from a friend who has EE, prairie bluebells, starlights greens, OE, & WTB, with EE and WTB Roos. I realize these breeds mean pretty random coloring. Any way to predict what the mature bird will look like based on 10 day old feathers? Also...
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    Shrink wrap follow-up?

    I assisted a shrinkwrapped chick but she’s got a hardened coating on her. Should I clean her up or leave her be? Also, I’m on day 22 and 13/16 hatched in one incubator and 12/41 in the other. Any hope that second hatch rate will go up? When should I peek? Assist?
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    Assist hatch?

    Against all advice I put a double yolker in my incubator. I candled and it looked possibly viable yesterday (hatch day). Today there’s a long crack and I think I see feathers. It’s looked like this for 5 hours? What should I do?
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    Official coloration names

    Can someone help me know what colors to call these birds? I see all the official names like Partridge and Wheaten but don’t know how they apply to my own birds, as there seems to be some gradient to every official coloration. A learning link would be appreciated along with labels for these...
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    Menagerie pre-guessing

    A friend gave me 50+ eggs to try for my first incubator hatching (in 2 bators). I’m on a mission for the rainbow egg basket. She said her hens are WTB, EE, OE, Prarie Bluebell, Starlight Green. But I saw a speckled Sussex when I picked up the eggs!🙂 Her Roos are WTB and EE. I probably won’t...
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    Chicks dying!

    Hello, I finally bought baby chicks this year from a reputable supplier. I bought Prairie Bluebell Eggers, Marans and Easter Eggers. I started with 12 and lost 5 in the first few days. I think that was due to temperature problems. Now I’ve got that figured out and bought more chicks. Had them...
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    Pyrethrin dilution for fleas

    I have been battling stick tight fleas for a couple of years. Cannot seem to totally eradicate them. My flock is free range and we lock them up at night in a wire coop. I read here on BYC to use Adams Flea and Tick Spray on the birds (cotton ball soaked and dabbed on affected heads and vents) so...
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    Gunky plaque on chickens head

    I’ve been having trouble one after another lately after 5 years with chickens with NO problems. A 2yr old roo died mysteriously 2 weeks ago. A month old chick died mysteriously a week ago and I’ve got one 2 yr old hen with water belly. Now this! We’ve been fighting fleas like mad so forgive me...
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    Droopy Hen making weird noises

    My 1.5 year old americauna hen is acting ill. She stand more upright and holds her tail down. She’s eaten and drank today but stayed close to coop and walked around very slowly. She makes a very muted version of her egg-laying noises and did what may have been a sneeze or cough. She opens her...
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    Sudden death again

    Hi. I’ve lost two birds and another is looking sick. Need help! MY FLOCK: I have 6 Americauna-cross hens and 1 Americauna rooster that are about 2 years old. I’m not up close and personal with my free range chickens except to ensure they have food, water and to let them out and close them up; so...
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    What went wrong?

    I had a free range leghorn hen go broody in the laying box. I didn't write down the date so our "21st" day is an estimate. I also once saw another hen in that box a few days later. At about the 14-16 day we moved her and eggs to another pen. It's been in the 30-40s overnight here but we did put...
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