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    What sex are these fuzzy pictures?

    I'd love guesses on what these are (I'm sorry for the bad pictures, I asked for good ones and this is what the kids got me) They're about 8-9 weeks old at this point (I think). First off, we have: Acts-Like-A-Pullet And after that, two almost certainly roos (they jump at you, they sleep in...
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    Roadside chicks - guesses on breed/gender?

    A friend texted the wife and said "My daughter found two chicks in a box beside the road marked Free Chicks." We already had some under a brooder, so over they came. My best guess is that the yellowish one was a week old when they arrived and the brown one was a few days younger, that would make...
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    Not emergency - Chick with heavy crust/swelling above eye.

    Tagging as non emergency in case there are more critical posts than mine. I have a bantam frizzle we acquired from the feed store which has been (honestly) pretty sickly. Took longer to start eating, still looks mostly bald thanks to the frizzle, and today we came home to see that her eye was...
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    My hen crows?

    Ok. Five hens, five eggs pretty consistently. Plus these are barred rocks and in my experience the rock-erals are pretty easy to spot next to the hens. Yet this morning we are woken up by this horrible noise. Not the normal crow of a rooster, that sound that says "You haven't had a good pot...
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    Feed bag based feeder - Bag Collar Feeder

    So I was going to make a shopping bag out of a feed bag, and then I started thinking about how my large can based feeder,and my plastic bucket based feeder were all about holding the feed in place to slide down a ramp. So the next time I was in home depot I picked up 51 cents worth of cull...
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    Sexing errors - at what point would you complain?

    It looks like I have five roosters out of 25 chicks. Assuming that el mystery chick was in fact a boy (and that's a reasonable guess) that leaves four. 90% accuracy should only give me 2.5 (but I'd rather round up than get half a chick). If I believed in karma I'd say in my past life I must...
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    Breed/Sex? Six week old chick

    This one is half the size of the others (at best). It eats, it drinks, but I'm thinking it's just going to be small (or at least it's starting out that way). It's always been tiny compared to the others, even as a chick, and while it's grown fairly well, it's still very small compared, say, to...
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    The Crying Game

    Midnight is the devil's hour, said my grandma to me when I was young. I believed - I had to. Grandma was on the side of God, and that meant if Grandma was wrong, God was wrong, and this could not be. As an adult I've come to know those coveted midnight hours and dislike them intensely, but...
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    Question about feathering

    I have one chicken six weeks old whose back feathers and belly are "stuck" as little pins just sticking out. Fully feathered on wings, neck and head quite nicely feathered, has a nice tail - but the back just stalled out. it doesn't get picked on that I can tell (if anything, it's a bit of a...
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    Reply without bump?

    I recently posted in the emergencies thread and received some greatly helpful and timely advice, and when I went back to post a thank you, I was conflicted. My emergency was over - those who will live, will live, those who are too weak (1) might die, but I'd already gotten all the help I...
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    Medicated feed or not?

    I might have lost a six week old chicken to Cocci and now I'm worried about my meaties, which brood in a separate cage (but in basically the same area). I know I could feed medicated and eliminate this, but part of the goal was to raise healthier birds. So how do people handle cocci in meat...
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    I lost a twicken last night - any ideas on why?

    He would have been six weeks old tomorrow, was completely feathered, beautiful gold and brown (and nasty, nasty temper). He was (we think) the mystery chick from my McMurray hatchery brown egg layer assortment. I had them vaccinated for cocci and mareks, been feeding non medicated. I have...
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    ARGH! Chicken Math strikes again.

    I just finally did a feather assessment and a late night check and found that it was time to turn off the heat lamp on this year's new layers. I put away the light, cleaned out the brooders and was pretty much pleased. Then my wife agreed to let me get some meat birds. Hooray! So I unpack...
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    Meaty Madness

    So when my wife asked what I wanted for my birthday this year, the only absolute answer I had was "no more 'things'". Then a few days later I said, "You know, the feed store in Monroe has cornish x birds. I think what I want is to raise a few and try them. Think of it like buying me a chicken...
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    Anyone have pictures of really, really frizzled cochins?

    One of our first chickens (back when I said my wife was crazy for buying four off of craigslist for $10) was more or less given to us - a tiny "frizzle" cochin, but frizzle isn't the right term for what this poor hen had - her feathers twisted and curled so badly she looked like she was...
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    Fiction Writers?

    Anyone else here like to write? Non fiction/experience is ok, I tend to enjoy a good story told by someone who understands how, and I'm resisting the itch to open and edit my latest creation after handing it off to my 12 year old daughter for a read through. Surely someone else out there...
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    What breed am I, at four weeks? (heavy pics).

    We'll start off with a couple of barred rocks - no guesses needed, just including these as a "90% accuracy isn't 100% accuracy" Sorry for the poor quality pictures - they are a lot more docile at a week when ten steps moves them a foot. No guesses needed - just to show difference in color...
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    Chickens in Kirkland, WA

    After several years of keeping chickens quite happily, I was frustrated to find out that in the views of the Kirkland code enforcement team, chickens are not allowed on lots less than 35,000 square feet (.8 acre). Before we ever started keeping them I read up and based on the pages which stated...
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    Barred Rock roos - what age will they have some meat on them?

    In my 26 chick order from McMurray I got two barred rocks. One has beautiful black feathers with white stripes. The other is white with thin black stripes and has a comb like a pink sawblade already, so I'm guessing it is a he. I'm not terribly upset (they say 90% accuracy), since I figure...
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    Two week olds got pretty cold

    My daughters plugged in a tv, a heater and three different game consoles into the SAME outlet which powers the chicken's heat lamps. At seventeen days (give or take a day) they are outside in a greenhouse with a variety of "heat zones" ranging from "cook a nugget" to "warm up for dinner" all the...
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