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    Polish/Houdan (?) What Sex Is This?

    Hi all, I'd be very grateful if you could kindly take a look at these two photos of my Polish/Houdan bantam and see whether you can tell the sex? It is 4 weeks old. I am hoping it's a pullet. Thank you in advance.
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    Polish/Houdan?

    Hi all, This chick finally emerged. (Pipped early afternoon end Day 23, pointy end of egg, no further progress whatsoever, cheeping fading, ended up with a fully assisted hatch early Day 25, dried membrane, yolk sac fully absorbed, head between thighs). 15 hours later, seems perfectly healthy...
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    Advice Raising Single Chick

    Hello all I'd be grateful for any advice on how best to raise a single chick. I can't have a rooster here - bought a young laying Polish bantam who had been running with a Houdan roo. A week later she laid her first (for me) egg - curiosity got the better of me and I wondered whether the egg...
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte - Rooster?

    Hi All, I have a little silver laced Wyandotte, now about 20 weeks though the breeder's set up was so chaotic that I'm taking her word for how old this chick was when I got it - he's now older but still no sign of a tail, and wattles aren't very big, though he's pretty red. I need to decide...
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    Silkies Gender Again

    Hi all, I'm now confident that I have one silkie roo (wattles, streamers on his crest, bigger, stockier and now thinking about doing boy's stuff with my little Polish girl). However, I am still unsure about the other three and would be glad of your thoughts. None of them have wattles to speak...
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    Australorp - Gender

    Hi all Posting some more photos of Delilah, my Australorp girl (??). A few weeks ago there were mixed views but I was eventually sure she was a pullet due to the lack of a full comb and wattles.But here I am again - she's now going on for 24 weeks. No egg, but no sign of crowing. She's very...
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    Lavender Araucana - Roo?

    Hello, finally managed to get some photos from every angle which I hope will enable someone to determine that this is a roo. He disappeared for three days just as I was asking for help here, and has turned up against all the odds, very tired and hungry, thank Goodness! The first pic shows him...
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    Silkie Gender Help Please :)

    Hi, I have four silkies, 2 about 12 weeks, 2 about 16 weeks. I'd be very glad if anyone could help with genders? I've uploaded a few photos hoping they will help. The first two sets of pics are a buff and a light grey, the second set is a white and a dark grey which are the older two. Thank you...
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte - Pullet or Roo?

    Hi all I believe this is a roo - he is about 12-14 weeks old (seller wasn't sure of hatch date). I'd be glad if you good people were able to have a look and give your opinion ple ase. Many thanks in advance. :)
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    Please Say These Are Both Girls!

    These two are best friends - 13 weeks old Australorp and 11 weeks old Gold Laced Wyandotte. I just hope they are both girls! Any thoughts? Thank you in advance
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    Mixing My Flock

    Hello Wonder if I might trouble you guys for some advice as I'm running out of space! I have two female ducklings aged 16 weeks that I raised myself. They are currently separated from Mum and Dad who free range all day, as these will too. There was a bit of fence running to begin with once...
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    Mixed Age Chicks in Brooder?

    Hello, I'd be glad of any advice. I have one large brooder (and some large plastic tubs). In the brooder are 2 chicks aged 4 weeks and 6 weeks which have become inseparable, and are now on a heat pad at night only. I have a staggered hatch in the incubator that were started under a broody for...
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    Staggered Hatch Advice

    Hoping you knowledgeable people may have some advice for me, but I realise you may think I'm a lost cause - had been looking out for a particular breed of hen for a while, then I found someone who had eggs. Was invited along, she fetched the eggs, didn't want anything for them, then explained...
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    How To Lower Humidity

    Hi, I've just had a disastrous hatch (2 hatched from 12), and the temperature may have been to blame. The lady I got them from feels really bad so is giving me another dozen tonight. I've had the incubator running, temperature is fine on all three thermometers but the humidity outside is...
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    Suddenly A Green Egg - Eh??

    Hello, wondering what your thoughts are on whether this is unusual or just a regular kind of thing. My duck didn't lay for some weeks after I bought my pair (supposed to be KC, but everyone seems to be of one mind that they aren't, might be a mix including WH, though the ducklings look curiously...
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    Problem With 3 Day Old Chick's Leg

    Hello. I'd be grateful for some advice if possible, please.. 2 chicks hatched on Sunday, this one has a problem with his right leg. It seems to be rotated somehow at the knee joint. It will straighten out, but not in line - it's twisted and he can't walk on it. He walks on his hock on that...
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    Problem With 3 Day Old Chick's Leg

    Hello. I'd be grateful for some advice if possible, please.. 2 chicks hatched on Sunday, this one has a problem with his right leg. It seems to be rotated somehow at the knee joint. It will straighten out, but not in line - it's twisted and he can't walk on it. He walks on his hock on that...
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    Thoughts on What Went Wrong!

    Hi all - just wondering if there is any advice out there for me - on a very steep learning curve. Today is day 24 for one dozen eggs, and finally I have two chicks that have hatched 3 days later than I expected. I'm a real beginner so I wonder whether anyone has any advice. @Yorkshire Coop...
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    Worried My Eggs Have Failed

    I'm nearly at the end of Day 21, and there's no sign of a pip in any of my twelve eggs. I'm not very good at candling, at lockdown I would say most of them didn't have a chick, some I'm not sure about, three I was really hopeful as they looked really dark and full up. They were all like that 3...
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    Suggestions For Mixed Flock

    I'd be grateful for some thoughts on chicken breeds for a mixed flock. They will be free ranging in the back yard, some areas exclusive, but others taking turns with the fully free ranging ducks. I don't plan to mingle ducks and chooks atm. I'm in Australia - climate is very hot summers, cool...
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