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    Is this even a chicken? Albino peafowl??

    My daughter's kindergarten teacher found two of these chicks under her car in the preschool parking lot. This is not a rural area, but in the dead center of Dallas in a neighborhood where the median income is over $120,000. The two chicks were docile and allowed her to pick them up and put...
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    Is this a Welsummer or a mutt?

    I have a rooster (which I will need to get rid of, seeing as how they're not allowed in the city limits). I tend to get attached, and. though I have a standing offer from a neighbor who says he'll take any roosters off my hands, I'm loathe to take him up on it (knowing it means that animals...
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    Will these still hatch?

    When my bantam silkie went broody a couple of weeks ago I decided to let her sit on some eggs (not her own, but three fertilized eggs from other hens.) This is my first attempt at incubating with an actual chicken doing the job, and apparently I picked the most immobilized brooder of all times...
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    Will these eggs hatch?

    I gave these three (fertile) eggs to my broody silkie. (They were clean and fresh out of three other hens when I put them under). Little did I know that a broodie silkie doesn't like to move come hell or high water. They're at 13 days right now--will they still be viable in a week? Should I...
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    Hen with incoordination, one eye swollen shut--lymphoid leukosis???

    I have a hen (Hecate--she's all black). She has never been a great eater, (nor a great layer), but, man, does that girl talk and talk. A little over a week ago I noticed her stumbling. Then increasingly I would find her laying in the dirt (head up and alert). All the feathers are gone from...
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