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    4H Workbook Help!!!

    A friend’s son is exhibiting a silkie in a 4H show next week and she called asking for help with his workbook but I am as stumped as she is. Does anyone know what the circled items are and what they’re used for?
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    Hatchery choice. What did I get?

    I just ordered a few ducks from my pet chicken, but since I love a surprise, I rounded out my order with “hatchery choice” ducklings. is there anyone familiar with ducks who can tell me what I got?
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    Tailless Cuckoo Marans

    One of my cockerels I am growing out has a “non standard” tail. It’s not completely absent like an Araucana, but it’s definitely small and rounded, more like a Cochin tail. Does anyone know of the genetics at play here? Obviously he can’t stay in my breeding pen, but wondering what i would...
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    Greenfire Farm Mystery Chick

    Finally broke down and shelled out the $ for Greenfire chicks. There was a six chick minimum, and I was looking for nice legbars and bielefelders, but they were one available chick short on either breed, so I picked the cheapest chick they had... a mystery rainbow egg layer. I ordered six...
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    Schijndelaar

    Ordered from Greenfire and one of my free extra as is a Schijndelaar. From a quick glance on their website, they’re an ornamental long tailed blue/green egg layer. They’re also $99 per straight run chick, so I don’t see myself ordering a pen of them. Anyone have experience? If it’s a...
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    Vicious chick - would you cull?

    I have been having a terrible time with chick loss in one pen. Chicks are 3 weeks old. There were 16 of them in a 4x4 pen. I have several pens in the same room of the same barn, similar sized flocks. Lost five chicks over two days, started everyone on Corid and thoroughly disinfected the...
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    Deland Florida Pullets 3-8 weeks!

    NPIP AI/PT clean. Chicks and started pullets. Many good laying breeds to choose from. Don’t want to raise a chick? Secure your chick with a deposit and we will raise it to 12 or 16 weeks. Available breeds include: Cinnamon Queens Rhode Island Red Rhode Island White Delaware White Leghorn Buff...
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    Broody White Leghorn

    In a flock of Wyandottes and Plymouth Rocks, my lone white leghorn has decided to go broody. I do have eggs in the incubator, but I am afraid she might remember that leghorns are a non-setting breed if I give her a few. Has anyone had a broody leghorn? How did she do? Was she a good mother?
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    Ameraucana and Marans cockerels in FL

    For colored egg/OE/EE/pet flocks I have a black and a blue Ameraucana cockerel. I also have what is supposed to be a BCM cockerel but he is solid black. They all hatched mid October and are vaccinated for mareks. The Ameraucanas are from a deep blue laying line, however are red based instead...
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    Henny Feathering - when?

    I have a small flock of juvenile Golden Campines. They are 14 weeks old and my rooster is showing distinctly pointy saddle feathers. I mentioned that I thought I needed to cull and replace with a new rooster but someone else said give it time because he may develop the henny feathering after...
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    Why are my chicks trying to drown themselves!

    I have 10day old chicks in a brooder on my back porch. Temp is electronically controlled to keep one corner the right temperature... It’s sitting at 90. Every night, for the last 3 nights, I find the chicks ALL huddled under a nipple drinker, absolutely soaked. All 12, huddled together...
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    It’s a bit of a fixer upper... WWYD?

    Here is my free Facebook Marketplace find. This “doghouse” is 5x7, 2x4 and concrete siding. Owner just wants it removed ASAP... I have a truck and a flatbed, so now I have a dog house, that is larger than my freshman dorm room, that I want to convert to a chicken coop. Clearly it needs a new...
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    Day old chick guessing game!

    Just got a shipment of Golden Campines and Fayoumis from My Pet Chicken, but I also love a surprise so I got four “brown egg layer assortment” chicks. Anyone want to hazard a guess to see what arrived? All four look distinctly different right now.
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    Chicken genetics for noobs?

    can you recommend a comprehensive chickens conformation, color, combs and genetics 101 source for me? While reading a bulletin board is exposure to a lot of new terms, and I am sure there is lots of good information here, there is a lot of jumping about too. Might hit the library when they...
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    Can a predator fit through this gap?

    Trying my hand at building my first chicken coop to get my little flock out of the dog crate they currently call home. I am happy with everything about my little coop but I left a gap at the top for ventilation because we are quite hot here. Just wondering if it needs wire for safety. It’s...
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