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    Sexing my 5 week old chicks

    Hello, I have seven chicks - all 5 weeks tomorrow. I've posted some pictures of them below to see if you can help me sex them. As they are a mixture of different breeds and colours it's v hard to compare them against each other. Also, though they are all from the same hatch, three came to us 2...
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    Gapeworm in 2 week old chick?

    One of my 5 chicks, 2 weeks old yesterday, is very unwell. She's gaping/mouth breathing, eyes closed a lot, lethargic, spends more time under the lamp, does an odd cough/sneeze/chirp noise and I have seen a bit of head shaking (though not much). I took her to the vet yesterday who was perplexed...
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    Introducing late hatcher (being picked on)

    So, after a pretty disastrous first hatch I thought we were having no chicks hatch. So we bought 4 chicks on Wednesday evening (just hatched - the breeder turned the incubator off and put them all in brooder for first time while we were there). One of our incubated eggs then did hatch...
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    Catastrophic error

    Hello, I am currently trying to hatch out my first set of eggs (with the help of my 4 and 7 year old who are heavily emotionally invested) to start our own little flock for our smallholding. I brooded ducks from day olds earlier this year but this is my first experience with incubating any...
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    Ducklings not keen on heat source!

    Hi there, I'm new to poultry keeping and hoping you can help me with some questions. I collected 3 khaki campbell ducklings two days ago. I was expecting day-olds but was told they were actually 6 days old, so 8 days old now. I have a brooder in our porch with one of these heat lamp...
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