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    Hair elastics instead of leg band?

    Has anyone used colored hair elastics instead of zip ties or leg bands? I feel they would "give" a little more as the chicks start outgrowing them and are easier to remove/ buy/ put on. There must be a reason this isn't done right?
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    Bantam or just little?

    This little yellow chick is a salmon faverolle and is the one in question. You see... The one next to it is a black cooper maran of the same age. Now the thing is, I have had a salmon faverolle before (though it died as a pullet) and I don't recall it being so much smaller in size to the rest...
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    Bad breeding?

    I recently bought some chicks from a small farm that breeds for color. I was excited to get more variety in our flocks but I'm now concerned I possibly bought poorly bred birds. But, I'm honestly not sure since they ARE basically eggers of random breeds. One has a wing that looks defect and two...
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    buff laced polish rooster?

    so, from what I can tell, the hens and roosters look fairly similar in this breed but I am really thinking we have a rooster on our hands. he/she is four months old and seems to be sporting a much more red color in the waddle and possible saddle and Heckel feathers. I'm not sure if the more...
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    Not the same but what are they?

    So I bought a lavender Orpington and two random "rare" breeds, one turned out to be a white cochin but I'm stumped with this one. It's not the same as my lavender Orpington and they breed true so it wouldn't be a variation. (the feet are peach not pink, the feathers are grey and white not grey...
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    pretty little easter eggers <3

    There are so many different looking easter eggers I thought it would be fun to have a thread to post a photo of yours! let's see those rainbow chickens!
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    Chick breed. Maybe a Wyandotte?

    I ordered some chicks and they tossed in an extra random one that is not any of the breeds I bought. It might be an easter-egger or maybe a Wyandotte from what I can tell. But, honestly, it could be anything. Any guesses?
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    one thing after the other

    so everything was looking up from the end of last week until yesterday, our neighbor's dog (who he said he took care of the issue of her running loose onto other peoples property) was set loose and, of course, made a b-line to our chickens. We lost three girls. Now, out of nowhere every single...
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    looking for redcaps

    I have been searching for redcaps in the US for so long and so far the only places that sell them here (that I have found) sell them by large amounts. Me and my husband want to breed them and protect a haratage breed and bring awarness about them to people. But, we do not have the means to have...
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    coccidiosis issues.

    So these are my first babies and every symptom points to this but I have been treating them for two and a half weeks now and all of them have been seeming fine. I got new chicks three days ago (have not introduced them to the flock yet and are keeping far apart) but now they have it too? And the...
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    Golden sex-link roo? 4 week old

    Okay, I know you are meant to tell the sex at birth by color, and this chick WAS colored as a pullet... but now that she (he?) is getting older its comb is SIGNIFICANTLY pinker than the rest of my birds. It IS, however, my first and only sex-link chick. So maybe they just develop faster? She/he...
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    Baby Dominique vs. Cuckoo Marian

    I bought one of each because I wanted a chocolate egger but also thought the Dominique would be a good layer. But, since a lot of questions seem to be going around about i.d.ing the two as chicks, I thought I would post a few photos of both of my four-week olds. :) these are both my cuckoo...
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