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    cracked/split beak and blood above

    Hi - I have 4 chicks, not sure on age but I'm guessing about 10 weeks, I think I have 2 hens and 2 roosters as the boys are already showing signs of fighting and square-ing up to each other! 1 girl is smaller (the other hen is a similar size to the boys but isn't interested in their sparring...
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    newbie incubating

    Hi - its been a while since I was on here but its nice to be back! I now want to get into ducks and got an incubator (covatutto 6) and tried to hatch out my 1st lots of "ebay" eggs - none were fertile so thinking maybe too early in season? My bator wouldnt get to 100 and stayed around 97/98...
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    Signs of old age/egg bound/sick?

    Hi I have been very lucky with my girls and havent had to come on here for a while but I now have a poorly looking ISA Brown. I have had her about 18 months and she was POL when I got her, (I lost my other brown about 6 months after I got them) She is looking sad, paler comb than normal...
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    Ducks and Chickens

    Hi A few questions that i'd like answered please! Can you keep ducks and chickens in the same pen? Do ducks really need a pond or is just a small amount of water needed to keep nostrils clean and prean etc? Can hens successfully hatch out baby ducks? Thanks Hannah
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    Can a Rooster live on his own?

    Subject says it all....?? H x
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    Why did they do this? (sorry long thread)

    I have 4 hens (all laying) and 2 chicks i hatched out, the "chicks" (one roo one pullet) were 16 weeks old so i started them on layers and put the run next to the girls run for about a week, then one night at dusk, put the 2 "chicks" in the hen house and let them all out the next day together as...
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    Cocci??

    One of the chicks I hatched out (13 weeks old now) is pooing clear/white with lumps of pinkish red stuff in it - is this signs of cocci?? She is ruffled and doesnt seem very happy and I gather this is a sign as well?? Anything I can do? Its just her and what I think is a roo with her in a...
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    pale frothy poo....

    Have posted this before but cant find it!!! I have one hen who is fine in herself - eats and drinks with the other 3 but looks smaller than the rest and also her comb has never grown and gone a "hen red" like the other girls. I worm them as per worming instructions and that hasnt helped and...
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    Chickens, rain and mud!?!

    Just wondered how you all cope with the rain and your coops?? Mine is half covered so they can get shelter (big run - cant free range ) but the rest of it is just mud mud and more mud, i use wood shavings to try and soak it up a bit but any ideas on anything else?? Thanks H x
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    Adding new chickens to originals

    Hi - i've got 2 chicks which are now about 8 weeks old that i hatched out myself (so no quarantine, right?) how and when do i put them with the older girls (about 6 months old)?? Think one is a roo and one is a girl so happy with that as i have 4 girls already! Thanks H x
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    why did my maran hen.....

    just squat down when i walked into the coop to feed them and was REALLY happy to be stroked?? Is this normal? It was lovely but wondered if she was worried or nervous? Thanks H x
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    5 degrees at night.....

    ..... I guess they still need a light even though the chicks are 5/6 weeks old now?? How do you make your brooder lights safe outside in all weathers?? Thanks H x
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    Spot the Cat....?!

    This is the latest piccie of my 2 chicks i hatched, batfink thinks his new tv is great! Looking like they are both roo's so the cornish x will go the way of roo's but because a few of you have said the larger one is a leghorn, he's been called foggy and dh wont eat a childhood hero!!!!
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    age to move out of brooder??

    Hi - my chicks are 3 weeks old and 4 weeks old, very nearly fully feathered but they are getting too big for the brooder really, i put them in the sunshine in a run some days but really they need to be outside all the time, i live in the uk so its averaging 10'C during the day and 4-5'C at...
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    chick crumb to growers??

    Hi - my 2 chicks are doing really well (will post pics again soon!) but just wondered when they need to be put onto growers pellets from chick crumb? they go through at least 3 pots of crumb a day (ones a cornish x so can understand that ) H xx
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    sad now! cornish x, newbie question

    From what i can gather Cornish X are primarily a meat bird and will eat themselves silly, i hatched one chick out of my cornish X eggs (bad humidity problem ) and was hoping that if it was a pullet we coiuld keep it with my girls in the garden but seems to me that its destined for the oven...
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    auto feeders?

    Hi - friend of mine wants to keep a few chickens on his allotment but doesnt want to be tied to going down every day to it and feeding the chickens, thats not to say he's leaving them to their own devices! Can you get auto feeders and waterers or should he just get a HUGE feeder and waterer...
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    Are vents the same in boys and girls??

    Just wondered really?! (secretly hoping my 2 chicks are girls so we dont have to eat them!) H x
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    Girls are in their new run!

    Heres the new run that DH has been building for me and my girls lets hope they give us some eggs no so its not been in vain!! lol H x
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    General Newbie Breed Question!

    Can someone please tell me - whats the difference between EE's and Americuanas?? (sorry if thats spelt wrong!) I would love some of those gorgeous blue eggs and am hoping to hatch some out in the spring but keep hearing them called all different names! H x
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