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    Help needed - these chicks are NOT welsummers... so what I'm the world are they?!

    I bought half a dozen fertile eggs to put under my lavender pekin, I asked for 3 vorwerk and 3 welsummer. She gave me an extra egg as one of the "welsummers" was very large, not ideal but ok. The eggs were mid brown and heavily speckled, average size, light for a supposed welsummer but it is mid...
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    Deep litter method with damp floor???

    Our chickens free range and at night are in a metal shed with a cement floor - it's been really wet lately and 2 corners of the coop are getting damp on the floor. We've tried several solutions and improved the issue but I'm wondering if I can try using the DLM with shavings? I know it works...
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    What color are these Wyandotte chicks?

    Hi all! Well, our broody successfully hatched 4 chicks, sadly one didn't make it through the first night but we still have 3 so we'll be happy for that. Just wondering if anyone can pick the colors at this stage (3-4 days)? Dad is a blue laced, eggs are from either blue laced or splash self...
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    12 week australorp dead

    Yesterday afternoon one of our 12 week austrolorp chicks separated herself from the flock&didn't come when called for food. We put her in a box with food&water in our en suite and she perked up, was eating and no signs coccidosis. We saw 1 mite so treated her with ivermectin. Sadly she was dead...
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    Broody on wrong nest for 8 hours!!

    Hi all, Ive got my first broody on a clutch of 5 eggs - very eggciting Until yesterday....she hopped off in the morning when I was feeding and watering the gang. Nobody went back into the chook shed until about 8 hours later AND SHE WAS ON THE WRONG NEST! My husband said the eggs felt cool but...
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    Splash Wyandotte x blue laced????

    Good morning sunshines! I'm about to put a clutch of eggs under my broody BLW. Our roo is a blue laced and the eggs will be from another BLW hen and 2 blue splash hens (not splash laced). I know the mix we can expect from the blw×blw (50% blue laced, 25% black laced and 25% splash laced) and I...
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    Broody Wyandotte question

    Good morning all! My favorite chicken, a blue laced Wyandotte named Ginger Farley, has gone broody since yesterday! We have a BLW rooster who loves her (literally!) and all the eggs we've eaten have been fertile. I'd love for her you raise a clutch but I'm sure she can only have 1 or 2 eggs...
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    HELP!! New chook on the loose!

    Hi all! Im brand new to chicken keeping (Im actually a little afraid of birds but Im getting over it!). We just bought 5 Wyandotte chooks (4 hens and a roo), we plan to free range them on our 10 acre property and have been keeping them confined to their coop for the first week....until little...
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