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    First Egg mishap

    I went out to feed the chickens this morning, and immediately noticed my Aquila (black astralorp with some RIR) had a mess of white dried under her vent. We weren't home for the last two days, so a family member fed the birds. I opened the chicken coop, and what looked like either one or two...
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    Green diarrhea

    About a week ago I started letting out our 2 month old chicks out during the day with the big hens. They were confined to chicken tractor in the same yard for about a month prior, and we watched carefully. Things seemed to be going okay, until yesterday morning we discovered one of them (an...
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    Deciding what to do with roosters

    We have two flocks, a bantam flock with 2 roosters and 7 pullets, and a regular flock with 1 rooster, 5 hens and 5 pullets. The 3 roosters and pullets are about 15 weeks old. We are trying to decide what to do with the roosters. Blackson is a golden seabright and started crowing at about 8...
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    Aggressive chick

    I've got 6 chicks that are almost 3 weeks old. They were all purchased from a feed store the same day at a few days old. One of them is pecking at the others, damaging and removing feathers and making them cry out. I don't think it's far from drawing blood. This is not my first round of chicks...
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    Cuckoo Maran chicks

    I have two cuckoo maran chicks, and at about 6 days old they are looking distinctly different. Is all the white on one an indicator its a male, or just that she has odd wings? Maybe mild frizzling? It's really hard to get them to stand still to get good pictures, but on the one with more white...
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    Telling apart different breeds of bantams with the same coloring + gender guesses

    Any ideas how to tell a barred rock bantam from a barred old English or other barred bantam variety? They are almost 6 weeks old. I know I should just wait a bit longer before asking, but I'm hoping someone can give me some clues as to what to look for. Moon (big) & Pepper (little) - 5.5...
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    Mystery Bantams

    We tried hatching some eggs using a free incubator, and only one of the bantams actually made it. So to give him some company, we bought 8 mixed bantam chicks from a Dell's Farm Supply store. I think maybe I've got most of them partially figured out, but I'm not super confident in anything...
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