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    Help me sex my Royal Palms

    I know they're under a year old. Probably hatched in late spring. They are my first turkeys and kind of look the same to me. No gobbling or breeding behaviors. They're all 3 big babies who get bossed around by the bantam hens. Also ignore the havoc in their run area, one of our dogs took it upon...
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    Rescue chicken with bad habit

    So my flock of 14 chickens and ducks has been perfect, no problems or illness whatsoever. A little hen showed up at a friend of mines house and they have been trying to trap her for a year and occasionally would feed her crackers. Recently, they managed to grab her as she was being attacked by a...
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    Can feeding cooked eggs to my chickens transmit disease?

    If I feed my birds eggs from a friend's flock (that is healthy as far as we know), transmit hidden disease to my birds? Thank you
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    Runner ducks not....runnery?

    I bought 3 runner ducks from ideal. They're 4 months old and not in the slightest do they have an upright build or way of going. Bad quality stock or are they a different breed? This is the best photo I could get as they are quite flighty and hate me :( the way the black one is standing is about...
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    Please share your tips for hard keepers!

    My 2 year old filly seems to stay perpetually skinny. She's a little over 16 hands currently. Both parents are over 17hh. She's on a mare and foal feed twice a day and on grass 24/7. They have grass hay always available but rarely dip into it. Wormer rotated regularly and she has had blood work...
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    Mysterious chick deaths

    I had a lone chick hatch and she was too tiny to be integrated with my bigger chicks so I gave her her own brooder and a buddy from the feed store. All was well for a few days until the buddy chick simply faded away and passed. She just got weak seemingly for no reason. I figured she just failed...
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    What color is Blue? Who is her Mom?

    This is Blue. Her dad was a Mille Fleur Bantam Cochin. Her mom was either a blue or a silver laced Wyandotte. More than likely the blue Wyandotte because I never saw the Silver Laced get any attention from the rooster. She has feathered feet. Any guesses as to what color she will be or is it a...
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    A PIP!

    I'm probably going to be glued to the chair next to my incubator for the next 12 hours. The eggs that I found in the coop after my chickens were killed have started to hatch. One pip so far even though it's day 19. The baby is even chirping. I might as well have laid the eggs myself I'm so...
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    Is this one dead?

    This was my best looking egg up until today. Had spider veins, a lil baby in the middle. Perfect. Today it appears as though half the egg is dark and half is light if that makes sense. The veins are less visible as well. Today is day 7. There is a very visible line where the color within the egg...
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    Is there a generally acceptable level of humidity?

    In the midst of emotional turmoil the other day after my chickens were killed I put every single egg I had in an incubator from Rural King. It is a still air incubator. There are three thermometers in there and the temperature stays around 100-101. The difficult part is every single post I read...
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    All my sweet birds are gone. What to do?

    This morning I woke up to a pack of big husky looking mixes and pitbulls chasing my horses. I ran outside to see that they had already torn the entire side off of my chicken coop that we had thought we built so securely (my fiance is a builder by profession). All of my ladies, my ducklings, and...
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    Putting ducks away at night

    All my chickens (even the babies) put themselves away in the coop nicely before dark and all I have to do is shut the door and latch it. However, the ducks don't get it. Like at all. We remade the ramp to be less steep and have little ridges for grip because I figured their feet maybe didn't...
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    Could it be?

    I picked this chick up from the feed store and she was the only one left in a bin labeled "black Moran pullets" because she was pretty sickly looking. I was kind of hoping they meant maran but she was a dollar so I took a chance. I asked the employees and they had no idea. Recently she has...
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    Is this cruel?

    I picked up two new chicks the other day and my fiance has been dying to have khaki campbells. I've read that they are very dirty so I figured it was best to start with one. I brought home two chicks and the duck and they get along great and snuggle in a little pile but recently I've been...
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    Frostbite or her natural color?

    My chickens semi free range in the backyard and have an enclosed, safe coop out of the wind at night but it's not heated. I noticed these markings on one of my hens today and I'm not sure if it's frostbite or just her coloring. Her legs are dark grey I didn't know if maybe the comb had some of...
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    6 week old Wyandotte

    I posted this check before and everyone was pretty sure it's a roo but told me to repost him at 6 weeks. Sometimes I think it looks like a pullet and other times I just don't know. Yes I put my chicken on the stove don't judge it was the only place I could find in the house with good light
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    Newbie and I think I've got a rooster!

    I got these lil guys from Rural King. Supposed to be a leghorn, a blue Wyandotte, and a silver laced Wyandotte. All 3 sold as pullets. However, the SLW seems to have a bigger comb that just appeared to turn red today. Compared to the other two he/she just looks quite masculine to me. They are...
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