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    8 1/2 week Black Australorp - pullet or cockerel?

    Boy or girl? I know BAs have big wattles, but I'm a little concerned about this chick. It's 8 1/2 weeks. I'm pretty sure it came from McMurry. I picked it up at a feed store to give to my broody chicken that wouldn't quit. I was afraid she was going to die in the next box in the heat here...
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    Need Chicken Autopsy Help (WARNING: very graphic pictures)

    This was pretty hard for us to do and now we need help figuring it out. It was our first time doing an autopsy, it was my husband's favorite chicken and we only had a few minutes. She was a 3 year old Ideal 236 leghorn. She declined slowly over the last couple of months and nothing I did...
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    Gold sex link chick - boy or girl? **Updated pictures**

    Can someone who has seen the difference between the male and female gold sex links help me? I got these from Ideal Hatchery and one is so much lighter than the other I'm a little concerned. Are the males really white or are they yellow and turn white? (GSL at Ideal is RIR and RIW) edited to...
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    What breed are my new hens??

    These are actually my sister's. She just got them from someone who was moving and couldn't take them with him. I think I see a Black star, a cochin and a ?. He got them from a feed store. They are 9 months old. Thanks
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    Chicken Video - "Chickens of the Caribbean"

    My daughter spent yesterday making this: I love it!
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    RIR not walking/ off balance

    I have a sick RIR. She has been in a cage in the bathroom for a couple of days now and hasn't changed much. She is having trouble walking. She can half stand, but tends to stand with one foot on top of the other. When she walks she seems off balance and uses her wings to balance herself...
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    8 week old leghorns (ideal 236) - pullets or cockerels?

    My leghorns (ideal 236's) turned 8 weeks old today. I haven't had leghorns before so I need some help sexing them. What do you think? Pullets or cockerels? I'm worried about #5 and a little worried about #2 because their combs are a little darker. They are still orange, though. Shouldn't they...
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    leghorn chicks

    At what age do leghorns start showing differences in sex? I have five 4 wk old "pullets" (Ideal 236). They all look the same, which is a good sign, but I'm wondering when I can be pretty sure that I have all pullets.
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    How much does a chick eat?

    How much does a chick eat at different ages? I am getting 10 chicks this week and I have 50# of starter ready for them. Can someone tell me how fast they'll go through this? Will this last the whole 6 weeks that they should be on starter? How fast will they go through the grower after that? I...
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    I want more chickens! I need help with roosting space.

    We have 5 nine month old pullets and are hoping to add up to 5 more this Fall. We live in the Phoenix, AZ area so our coop/run is an open air set up and has to be that way with temps reaching up to 116 lately. The chickens free-range the yard during the day so the enclosure is only for eating...
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    12 week old chicks - See any roosters? (EE,BR,LB,RIR)

    This is an update to https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=270602&p=1 Where I listed the chicks at 6 weeks. Here they are at 12 weeks (minus 3 chicks that I gave to my sister) Besides the obvious LB roo, does anyone see any others that look rooish? Here they are in a line...
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    Night time temps for 12 week old chcks in AZ-Please help a newbie!

    I have six 12 week old chicks in an open style coop/run (our first chickens.) They've been outside for about 3 weeks (in our living room before that:)) We live in the Phoenix area so in the long run we are more worried about heat than cold, but while they are young I don't know what low temps...
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    Please help sex these 6 week old chicks (RIR, EE, BR, and L Brahma)

    I've been waiting patiently (OK, not so patiently) for our chicks to hit the 6 wk mark to post them here. (sexed as pullets at the feed store) I've been reading a lot on BYC and I think I have some of them figured out but I would really like help from the experts. If you have time to add...
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    Red star or Rhode Island Reds - which is which?

    We are new to chicks/chickens. We have 3 1/2 week old chicks. Two are supposed to be RIR and two are supposed to be Red stars (Red sex link). When we got them at the feed store, they were in separate bins, but the guy at the store was a little confused about which were which. They are very...
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