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    Too young to sex? (Little over four weeks)

    These chicks are only 4 weeks old but they seem pretty mature for their age. They are all hybrids. Cricket: Goose: Honeybee: Bug: Fig: I would appreciate any help I can get!
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    Should I incubate this egg?

    I want to incubate this good sized egg, but it appears to have shell wrinkles. Do you think it will still be fine? I can get another egg, I’m just wondering if this one will work or not.
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    Buff Leghorn?

    So my neighbors have this hen that looks like a leghorn, but is yellow. Up until this point I didn’t know buff leghorns were a thing. Could this be one?
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    How big do Sapphire Splash roosters get?

    So we have a 3 month old Sapphire splash cockerel and he is pretty tall, almost as big as our full grown Polish rooster. This made me wonder, how big is he going to get when he is fully mature? He hasn't even started crowing yet.
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    3 month old chicken genders

    So we have 6 new chickens to add to our flock, they are about 3 months old and I am pretty sure I can guess their genders, but I need to make sure. Here is a Golden Comet (I think it's a golden comet anyway, I got it mixed up with our other reddish orange chick when they were really young)...
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    Duckling will only tilt its head to one side.

    This cute little Ancona baby hatched this morning, and I noticed that it was only tilting its head on one side. It does not appear to be in any pain, and is acting completely normal from what I can tell. I thought maybe it was because of the long period of time that it had been pipped, which was...
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    Up to 7 Ancona ducklings in Iowa

    We have an Ancona duck who is currently sitting on 7 eggs, all of which I believe are alive. We do not have enough room for 7 more ducks, so when they are 2 - 3 weeks old we are going to be rehoming them, probably for free but we haven't fully decided yet. We live in the Iowa city/Cedar Rapids...
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    Quick and easy way to kill pretty far-along duck eggs?

    So we have a broody Ancona duck who has been incubating 7 eggs for a couple weeks. They are pretty far along, but not fully formed yet. We didn't mean for them to get this far, we have been trying to break the hen's broodiness for over a week now. I would like to know a quick and easy way to...
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    The eggs are somehow alive?

    So we have a female ancona duck who is broody. She is sitting on a nest of 7 eggs, but the problem is that the best is outside. We put all of our ducks inside at night, and every night I lift her out of her nest and put her into the duck house for the night. In the morning, she goes straight to...
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    Help! Duck neck wound (Graphic images)

    So our duck coop has a weird door on it, it closes at the top and has a but of a space at the bottom, and one of our ducks got her head stuck in it. She has a large wound on her neck, all of the feathers and a lot of the skin had rubbed off. It appears to have stopped bleeding but she has a...
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    Asking for a friend

    Hello, so I am asking for a friend since they do not have a Backyard Chickens account, one of their hens hasn't been acting or looking normal I think. Her symptoms are fluids down her front, poop on her back, puffed up and somewhat lethargic. Her breathing has sometimes sounded like an old man...
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    Duckling constantly itching feet- help!

    So I have two Ancona ducklings, one of which seems to be fine, while the other one is always trying to itch is feet. I feed them All Flock...could it be niacin deficiency? Help!
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    Ancona egg hatching Day 40??

    It kinda seems weird that my Ancona egg is hatching on day 40...what is the latest you have had a duck egg hatch? Do you think my duckling will be healthy?? Help! I need your thoughts!
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    Urgent! Day 28 ducklings not pipped but still alive

    I have 3 Ancona duck eggs that are on day 28, but haven't even pipped yet. I candled each of them, and they are all still alive. I'm worried because the last duckling I tried to hatch had its organs on the outside of its body. It also doesn't even look like they internally pipped. What do I do??
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    Can duckings eat chick starter/grower?

    Our ducklings are going to hatch soon, and I was wondering if they could eat chick starter since we have a lot left from our previous batch of chicks. I didnt want to go out and buy some if there was already stuff they could eat here. Thanks!
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    Brooder vs Mother

    Ok, so our female Ancona is going to have ducklings soon, and we were wondering whether we should just let her take care of them, or if we should move them to a brooder. We've never had ducklings before, so I dont know what to do! Help!
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    Should I get peafowl?

    We were thinking of getting peafowl but we are worried about the noise and we dont know what you need to have when owning peafowl. Are peacocks really as loud as people say they are? What do you need for peafowl that you wouldn't need for chickens? Also feel free to share your preferences on...
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    4 week old hybrid gender?

    Here is a 4 week old Cochin bantam/silver laced sebright hybrid I have. Can anyone tell the gender from these pics?
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    Guess the hybrid!

    Alright, so here's a 4 week old hybrid chick that I have- it's pretty hard so tell me if you need a hint! Also, feel free to post your own hybrids for others to guess! :)
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    Peeping but not pipping on day 22!!

    So I have a bantam egg that was part of a batch I had given up on 5 days before lockdown because I had gotten a much better incubator for a different batch I was incubating. I had completely stopped turning the eggs and everything to focus on the other batch that was bound to have a better hatch...
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