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    Teen Silkies

    Hi all! I'm new to the silkie world... I'm guessing the frizzle splash (is that the right color?) is a cockerel? And the buff (or is this porcelain??) is a pullet? They are about 4 months old. I know time will tell.... just wondering if anybody might know sooner :)
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    Found these hungover chicks in my yard...

    The "water plate" was warmed by the brooder... when I checked in this morning, they gave me a heart attack, I thought they were dead! Everybody is fine, just hanging out :gig
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    First time hen-hatch

    Hi all! I've been incubating eggs for years now... the last time I let a hen hatch eggs, the chicks were extremely skittish (to the point of being untameable), so I bought an incubator for better handling results. Then a month ago, two of my hens starting sitting in a location I couldn't reach...
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    • chicks 1 day hatching and brooding chicks hatching chicken eggs serama baby serama chick
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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    Mites spreading disease?

    Hi all :) I've had this slow spreading disease in my flock since I brought some girls home in September, I'll try to keep the story short. I've been keeping chickens a number of years now, never had a pest or disease problem... I also don't usually buy hens elsewhere, sorta have a hatching...
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    Laced Jersey Giant

    Hello all :) A neighbor gave me a batch of jersey giant hatching eggs, and I ended up with one pullet (predators took the rest, long story short), and she has very interesting coloring. My neighbor told me that laced or splash was possible, but lace is super rare. I've tried googling 'laced...
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    Introducing cockerels to rooster flock

    So I have this rooster flock of five mixed breed boys, all about nine months old (just getting in their feathers and hanky-panky attitudes). All of them were very sweet until recently, when my most recent chicks hit about two months old. The boys free range, and up until a month ago, the younger...
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    Bear-proofing the run

    Hi all, I've recently moved into bear country, and now have at least one new, very large predator problem. My chickens have been here three months, long enough for me to hatch 16 chicks, and we attempted to reinforce the coop with extra fencing, also buried the fence deep to keep out diggers...
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    Sex linked blue egger project

    Over the past year I've been trying to hatch my own backyard version of blue egg layers, utilizing my crested cream legbar rooster, buff orpington and ayam ceyami hens. This last batch of chicks hatched out with unexpected down colors, and I'm wondering if they might be sex-linked. First gen...
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    Squirrels !!

    Hey all :) So I've been having a problem with eggs disappearing for about a year now, starting last fall. First my chickens were molting, some lost a LOT of feathers, I thought they had stopped laying. I changed feed, increased nutrients/vitamins and protein, to help. Some of my girls reached...
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    2month roo/hen?

    Hello :) I have these two (pullets?) I'm rehoming next week, I think they are pullets ? They hatched March 6th, so 2months old. Hen is brown serama, roo either black/white frizzle serama or oegb. Thanks so much :))
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    Hand feeding injured chick

    Hi all, I have an AC/CCL mix chick with struggles. She hatched fine 3 days ago. I noticed maybe 15minutes after she hatched, a different chick in the incubator was pecking her bottom, then I saw yolk leaking out. I disinfected her and stopped the bleeding, then bandaged her with a makeshift...
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    OEGBantam Pullet Pics Pls?

    I had a broody serama hen that hatched two pullets, now 5 weeks old. I was wondering if you guys could help me guess who the father roo was... Possibilities are: LilBritches (OEG Bantam): Runey (serama): Patches (serama): Does anyone have pictures of 5week old OEG bantam pullets...
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    NorCal Serama Hatching Eggs

    Hi all, I hail from Valley Springs, CA. I've got a chocolate brown hen and two black pullets. The hen is laying, the other two girls will be laying any day. I also have a golden-barred rooster, a barred black/white frizzle, and a black rooster with some leakage. The chicks could be a variety...
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    Hatching day candling

    Hello :) So, I have this one egg due to hatch tomorrow. I've had pretty poor luck with my last few hatching attempts. My last two hatches, they pipped and hatched about two days early, with weird deformities (curl toe, small amount of unabsorbed yolk), bad hatch rates. I found out today that the...
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    Placement for Lockdown

    Hey all, So, I have a few eggs going into lockdown tomorrow. It seems like every time I put them in lockdown, a least two or three die that day. They could be dying in the three or four days following lockdown, since I don't open it until the first chick is fluffy, but it seems like the ones...
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    Cen Cal Serama Boys

    Hi there, I'm looking to sell my serama roosters and cockerels, $15 each, and I live in Burson, CA but am willing to drive and meet. They are pet quality, however the cockerels came from show quality stock and have great form. All of their wings are clipped. I purchased the roosters as eggs from...
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    Lump on Newly Hatched Chick-help please

    I'm attaching pictures that may be graphic to some, a heads up.... This chick pipped on day 19, started zipping 23hours later, and finally hatched out of the shell four hours after that. I noticed a lump on her butt, looks like she didnt finish absorbing, theres no plug. I took her into a...
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    First time with broodys!

    I've got ten eggs in an incubator, and I was realllllly hoping that one of my buff orpington hens would decide to go broody for me... I didn't pick up eggs for about a week, and my sweetest hen Goldie has now been sitting on them for the past three days. The incubator eggs are due to hatch in...
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    Serama mama, mixed chicks?

    I have soo many questions, the first girl I've ever hatched from an egg has gone broody :celebrate:love My serama hen Kitty started laying two weeks ago, and I thought, I wonder how long it will take for her to go broody if I left the eggs there. Literally 7 days ago, I stopped picking up her...
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    • broody broody age chick behavior crested cream legbars hatch advice mama and babies questions serama serama chicks serama hatching
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    • Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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    Regrowing feathers?

    So I have this hen, shes a 4 year old buff orpington, that has been almost bald of feathers for more than a year. Two years ago I had a couple of aggressive roosters, and only 7 hens, which is when the feather loss started. I bought the girls "jackets", to protect from the roosters, but most of...
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