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    Partridge Silkie gender help

    These two silkies are about 12 weeks old. Can you tell me what gender they are? Silkie #1 Silkie #2 Thanks!
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    So confused about humidity!!!!!!

    I am pretty new to hatching eggs in an incubator. I have a Hovabator. I have tried quail, chicken, and turkey, with relatively low rates of hatch each time (~60%). The first few hatches I opened the lid during the hatching to remove chicks, and then I worried that I shrink wrapped the...
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    Weak newborn poults still in incubator, please help!

    I helped 2 poults out of their eggs this morning. They had absorbed all their yolk sacs but were shrink wrapped. They came out of the eggs ok, but are still really weak (6-7 hours since they hatched) and lying on their sides in the incubator. Anything I can do to help them get up and at em?
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    temp drop as turkey poults are pipping!

    I am half way through a hatch... 4 poults hatched yesterday (day 28) evening with many more pipping out. This morning no more had hatched although there were many beaks pipping through and moving. Then sometime during the day the incubator temp fell from 99 to 95 degrees! This evening the...
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    cold hardy geese

    What would you recommend for a cold hardy breed of goose. I am in Northern Canada and have lots of chickens (silkies, cochins, wynadottes, and australorps) and a pekin duck, who all seem to do fine over the winter in my little insulated chicken house. I am thinking of adding some geese to my...
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    mean rooster

    How old of chicken is too old to eat? Also, can you eat a rooster after they have matured sexually, or do they not taste good? I have an almost 1 year old bantie silkie who has gotten way too big for his britches and attacks everyones legs as they walk. I think it is time for him to go...
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    Mice in my pigeon house!

    I am so upset... This winter mice moved into what i thought was my deluxe pigeon house. I have had my homers in this pigeon loft for 3 years with no problems, but a few months ago mice seem to have moved in and now I can't get them out. They steal the pigeon eggs right out from the nest! My...
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    Babies in the winter

    Does anyone let their pigeons hatch out in the winter? Our winter started late, but now it is here in full force (-23C) and I have 4 x 2.5 week old squabs. I have their fully insulated coop heated with a radiator, and a heat bulb on one of the nests, and the babies all seem to be doing fine...
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    heating chicken coop?

    My chicken coop is small and well insulated. I am trying to figure out the best way to heat it to keep my 6 banties warm all winter (up in Northern Canada). I am thinking a heat bulb should do it. What do other people do to heat their coops during the winter?
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    housing duck with chickens?

    I have one duck. He has been on the pond all summer, but I am trying to figure out what to do with him for the winter. Last winter he and his mate were housed in a small duck house, but now he is alone. Should I put him in with the chickens for the winter? Might gross-up the chicken house...
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    silkies and cochins

    I recently acquired 6 young birds: 2 female and 1 male Silkie, and 2 female and 1 male Cochins. Should I separate the breeds, or leave them together? Realistically, for this winter it would be much easier for me to house them all together, but perhaps next summer when they are mature I should...
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    Doa

    I had two eggs in a nest that started pipping today, but both stopped progressing. The one who was further along wasn't moving at all, and when we opened the egg it was clearly dead. The other one was still slightly moving this afternoon, but hasn't done anything since then. Could this be...
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    the strangest thing I have ever seen...

    This morning I went out to my pigeon/bunny house (6' x 8' x 7') and saw the strangest thing... Some background: I have 3 nests happening on the floor right now, in one corner a 1 week old squab, in the other corner 6 x 5 day old bunnies, and in a third corner a lesbian pigeon couple perpetually...
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    First Ducks!

    I just picked up my first ducks today! 5 Pekins (4 females and 1 drake), almost 1 year old. They seem super relaxed in my yard poking around in puddles and preening themselves. Oh, looking out the window now it appears that they are all taking an afternoon nap in the middle of the yard . So...
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    Hello

    Hi There, I live in Northern British Columbia (Canada). I have had chickens in the past, but at present I have Homing Pigeons and am looking into starting with ducks this spring. I also have 3 preschoolers, 2 horses, 2 dogs, and 4 cats. I am looking forward to learning a ton from this forum...
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