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    Lets See Pictures of Your Performance Poultry Birds!

    Hey everyone! I've been seeing quite a few different threads for sharing pictures of poultry bought from particular hatcheries and thought it might be fun for some of the Canadians on this forum to join in! I chose Performance Poultry since it has a large variety of ornamental birds compared...
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    Anyone Order Sebrights from Performance Poultry?

    Hi everyone. I am thinking about placing an order with Performance Poultry in the next few days and I wanted to see if anyone has ever gotten any Sebrights from them in the past? Do you have any pictures? I just want to get any idea of what quality their Sebrights are before I place an order...
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    Performance Poultry?

    Hey everyone. I've been wanting to order from Performance Poultry for a couple of years now but kept missing ordering season by a couple of days. This year it seems like they've changed their policy and you're now required to order a minimum of 5 chicks per breed, and you can't mix and match...
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    Duckling with Curled Foot.

    Hi everyone. I have a week old duckling with a curled foot. I have read a few different posts from people dealing with the same situation that suggest making a credit card cut out of the ducklings foot, than using it as a base to tape the foot flat. I have been doing this with my little guy but...
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    Is Float Test Reliable for Testing Viability of Duck Eggs?

    Hi everyone, In an earlier post I explained that I rescued 3 eggs from one of my ducks that left them behind when moving nests. 1 of the eggs has since hatched and the other perished (the egg had been damaged when I found it) and the last egg is still sitting in my incubator. For those who...
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    Assisting Duck Eggs?

    - Back Story - I have 2 female (not tame) ducks that started setting on some eggs about a week apart, the ducks are only a year old themselves so this is their first hatch. On the first ducks hatch date when I was checking on them I noticed the ducks had put both clutches of eggs in one nest and...
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    Drake Attacking Ducklings?

    Today our female duck hatched out 14 of her eggs, earlier tonight when I went up to the barn to take a peek she had all of her duckling out of the nest, and while I was watching I noticed the male being rather aggressive towards some of the babies. He'd rush at them, and bop them over the head...
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    What color?

    A few weeks ago I acquired 4 new Silkie chicks. My dad got them for me from our local feed store on his way home from work the night of my high school graduation and 19th birthday, I've owned several Silkies in the past, all of which were white, I'm curious to know what color these chicks would...
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    Day 23 Some Still Haven't Pipped?

    A while ago me and my Dad bought a used TopHatch incubator from our local Value-Village. The incubator was missing some peices including including the fan, so we tried using it as a still air incubator but none of the eggs hatched. Recently my dad decided to give it another go, replacing the...
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    Brower TopHatch and Turkey Eggs

    Okay, So me and my dad are attempting to hatch turkey eggs as a father/daughter project. This is our first time hatching turkey eggs, and my first time using an incubator. We recently grew some white turkeys for meat, and prior to taking them to be killed they laid 5 eggs, we saw them mating...
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    Rooster Peeling Leg Scales?

    My OEGB Roo looks to have something wrong with his legs, the "scales" look to be lifting up or peeling off, I don't know whats wrong with him or if its a serious issue or not, I havn't seen it with any of our other chickens and it's really concerning me. Does anyone know what this could be or...
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    Incubator Designs?

    Does anyone have any designs for an incubator built with plywood and an 100 watt light bulb? any help is greatly appreciated.
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    Serama Breeders Near Kingston Ontario?

    Hi, Does anyone know of any breeders or hatcheries that sell seramas that are located near or willing to ship to Kingston Ontario? any help would be greatly apprieciated.
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    Thinking Of Crossing, What Will I Get?

    Hi, I have a White Silkie hen who was only born with 4 toes, that I'm thinking about crossing with my Black Breasted Red Old English Game rooster and I'm wondering if anyone has Ideas of what I might get out of this, is it a good idea that I should follow through with? and has anyone tried this...
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    Incubator or Hen Hatched?

    Hey everyone, I'm looking for some advice on wether I should use an incubator or a hen to hatch. I have a pair of Black Breasted Red Old English Game chickens, they've hatched some babies on thier own before, but all of the young ended up being killed due to the lack of preperation before the...
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    Hello From Ontario! :)

    Hello everyone, I've been a member on BYC for quite some time now but this is my first time actually looking through the forums. I'm 16 years old and live on a 5 acre hobby farm in Verona, Ontario. I absolutely love animals, and ever since I can remember it's been my dream to become a...
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