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    thinking about turkeys again...what breed?

    Well I ended up with a friends full grown RP & BR about this time last year and had them for two weeks before realizing that I wasn't ready to take on turkeys But I really fell in love with them while they were here...especially the Royal Palm. I loved the way she seemed to "purr" for me when I...
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    Gender confused silkie? -huge comb

    Okay, I'm not even sure where to post this... This is a silkie that i gave to my mom as a chick. It comes from decent silkie lines (purchased the eggs from a reputable BYC member). My mom has heard this bird crow and I was positive by the looks of it (large comb) that this was a he.... Until...
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    lol...these broodies are hard work!

    Okay, so after a few weeks of playing musical eggs and hens trying to take over boxes and then all 3 deciding to go broody...my first broody hatched out her 4 eggs yesterday. So now the hen next to her has decided that chicks look like more fun than eggs. When I got home from work today she had...
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    my broody messed up? D-day today...

    So I went out to my coop this morning to check on the eggs that my broody is sitting. Today is day 22...I notice that she is outside when I walk out there. And when I get in the coop, 3 of her eggs are pipping! What in the world was she thinking???? This is seriously the first time i have ever...
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    Can you use a broody as a foster mom?

    I gave my sister some fertile eggs for one of her broody hens and 4 of them hatched... Well, she never planned on keeping them and is going to give them back to me. My question is, I now have 3 broody silkies and I am wondering if I could stick the babies under one of the hens instead of...
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    My first broodies...man am I messing this up!

    My husband and I went out of town for our anniversary and came home to find not only one, but two of my silkies broody. These are my first broody birds and i wasn't really prepared to do the broody bird thing yet. Neither had eggs under them, as the people that were "chicken sitting" for me...
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    Will they start soon? Silkies laying...

    I thought that I had read that silkies start laying around the 20 week mark like other birds, but mine aren't laying yet. They are 26 weeks old...any idea how much longer? My roos have been crowing for about a month (if you can call it crowing, sounds more like a dying cat).
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    I'm not a wyandotte...am I a gamebird?

    This is one of my parents birds that was purchased from the feed store as a chick that was labeled as a wyandotte. However, it looks nothing like the other 2 wyandottes that they purchased at the same time. In fact it has a straight comb, not the walnut/rose comb of a wyandotte. Is it a...
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    Broody RIR hen...really?

    Haha...I thought RIR weren't supposed to go broody, but apparently my girl didn't get that memo. Here's the dilemma, she flew out of the chicken run and large coop to sneak off to the older little coop and I just found her today. She is sitting on 2 eggs and I'm not sure how long she has been...
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    Peeps - the runt who won't give up

    Peeps is 3.5 weeks old. He was the last chick in the batch to hatch. And he is the smallest 3.5 week old I've ever seen. He is only 1/3 the size of his other hatch-mates. Along with being tiny, he has lots of other "issues". He seems to get "plugged up" easily, meaning he has a hard time...
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    Please Help! Chick with leg problem-not spraddle, getting worse

    I've posted this before and nobody has had any ideas. I have a 10 day old silkie chick that I had to help hatch. It zipped, but never popped out, so after 24 hours of being zipped i pulled the shell apart to help it out. It popped right out without any blood or any apparent problems. It hasn't...
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    What to do with a runt?

    Soooo....I had disastrous hatch last Friday....and this little guy was the last one to hatch on Saturday night. He/She was very wobbly for the first few days. It had the umbilical cord still attached as of 2 days ago. It seems to be doing a little better now- not falling over or getting stuck on...
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    Still need help with week-old chick - leg problem?

    This is the little guy that I had to help from my "disaster hatch". I put a bandaid on his legs about 3 days ago to treat for spraddle leg, but now I'm not sure that is the problem. He is standing now, which is an improvement, but doesn't bear any weight on the gimpy leg unless he tries to walk...
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    Chicks struggling from my "disaster hatch"

    I have 5 silkies from the disaster of all disaster hatches (started with 39 eggs, had to help 2 out and one hatched very late). One of the chicks that I helped (had been zipped for 24 hours and no progress) looks like its leg is either broken or has spraddle leg? I've never had a chick with...
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    Incubating accident - need advice!

    My eggs went into lockdown on Monday. When I went to put them into the cartons I realized that the turner had accidently been uplugged. I think it happened 2 days earlier when I moved something in that room that needed to be plugged in - then forgot to plug the turner back in. I was hoping that...
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    Silkie breeding questions - split wing

    So I was reading on some breeders website about silkies being prone to split wings. I'd never heard of it, but checked out my flock today and discovered that one of my birds that I was really excited about showing/breeding has split wing. My question is, since she has split wing, does that...
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    Want to guess at MORE silkie genders?

    Here are three more of my Christmas babies that I'm trying to guess the gender on. I know its still probably too early to tell (there just over 3 months old) but thought it would be fun to get a few guesses. #1) My guess - Roo #2) My guess-pullet. Also, what color do you think this one is...
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    Culled a bird this morning -wheezing - what was wrong?

    I woke up this morning to the strangest sound. I walked outside to find one of my 10 month barred rocks "wheezing". It sounded like it was gasping for each breath. It was just laying on the ground. I heard it sneeze a couple of times. I picked it up and it got a little more lively, but was still...
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    My turkey is limping...any ideas? Do I worry?

    I picked up my turkeys one week ago (bourbon red & royal palm) and the bourbon red started limping two days ago. The first day was just a very subtle limp. Then yesterday and today it seems like it can hardly bear any weight on it. I've looked at the bottom of the foot and cant see anything on...
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    I was going to get rid of my quail....

    and then the kids made these for Easter and they are so cute! I've been trying to cut down the amount of poultry that I have and thought that would really help out, but now I'm thinking maybe I should keep just a few hens and maybe just one roo
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