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    New Broody

    I've a new broody hen. She's a White Leghorn cross. I don't know what breed the cross is, but she looks like a WL, but never had the yellow legs. She's about 18 months old and has just gone broody. The other hens are coming into the nest box and laying as normal. I've left her with 8 eggs, but...
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    4 weeks old, blind in one eye

    I had a nest raided by a rat and the nest mate killed and part eaten. The one who survived was abandoned by the parents and is blind in one eye from the rat attack. I've been feeding it with thawed frozen peas but it isn't making any effort to start feeding itself. Is it that it can't focus on...
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    Lesbian parents

    I have two hens, one I bred and one is bought in as a stock bird. The stock hen has 12 offspring and the homebred one is a year old and has infertile eggs last year. The stock cock got out and flew away leaving the stock hen alone and the homebred's mate was found dead on the floor of the loft...
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    Different size squabs

    I have a pair of youngsters about a week old. One has grown normally but the other is less than half its siblings size. For the last couple of days, I've been checking their croups and the bigger one always seems to have a full one, but the other is almost empty. The stronger one is now...
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    Colour change in a white pigeon

    Hello all, I have a young bird (6 months) and he is white. I bred him from two white parents but when he feathered out he had 4 black tail feathers. Now, he's had his first moult and the black feathers have grown back as white. I never saw this before. Has anyone experienced this colour change...
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    2nd clutch laid early?

    The parent birds have started on a second clutch of eggs and the youngsters they already have are only 23 days old. Is this very quick? I thought the current ones should be about 35 days.
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    Homing Pigeon nesting

    Hello all, greetings from Ireland. I'm fairly new to keeping homing pigeons and I have 3 pairs of stock birds. I've had them raise 6 youngsters so far. One pair have raised one clutch for me and have been on their second batch of eggs. Here's the problem. They kept adding twigs to their nest...
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