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    Best rooster for colour over mixed flock

    Hey all, So I’m getting a flock together again after not having one for a while, so far I have: * commercial red (isa brown, hyline etc) * commercial white * a few polish (gold lace, black with white crest) * birchen maran *copper maran * silken aras (black and lavender) * x-breed dark eggers...
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    My flock has respiratory symptoms. What do I do?!

    Hi all :) I currently have around 20 chickens of varying breeds and ages (POL pullets to older hens, and 3 roosters), mainly hatched and raised by me with a few adult introductions form reputable breeders after a quarantine. I’ve noticed some sneezing and clear nasal discharge, and also dust...
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    Assisted chick, glued feathers and slightly gunky navel

    Hi everyone, Long story short I assisted a little blue copper Maran hatch this afternoon (day 23, started to unzipped and got stuck, legs were in the wrong place to hatch), the chick strongly exited the egg under its own steam once I freed the top so he could move. However the navel is slightly...
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    First ever shipped eggs: day 18, not right?

    Hi I ordered 20 mixed cheaper crossbred eggs for a shipped egg test run before I buy the dearer variety! I read up on shipped eggs and ended up putting them fat end up in cartons, didn't turn for 7 days and then began tilting with a large book under the incubator 3x a day, incubator is an Rcom...
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    opened egg day 23 help!with

    Hi all, So this is my first post, I'll introduce myself later, but right now I need some advice urgently! Okay so I had a batch of silver spangled Hamburg eggs in my incubator (Rcom 20), 20 eggs set, 6 clear and 1 quit halfway thru. 13 eggs went into lockdown, 8 hatched overnight day 21, all the...
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