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    Super stressful lockdown

    Hi I posted yesterday about what I should do with an egg I dropped while putting into lockdown as it had cracked. With advice, I was planning to seal the crack over with candle wax as I could see the chick in the egg was still alive and moving. However, when I went to take it back out to do...
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    Dropped an egg on day 18

    Hi, It's day 18 and as I was sorting the incubator out for lockdown I dropped one of the eggs. The egg has some cracks on the pointy end, no fluid is coming out. The air cell has also gotten a lot bigger on one side. I candled the egg and the chick is still moving around. Is it ok to keep it in...
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    How do you breed a frizzle silkie like this one?

    Hi Before now the only frizzle silkie's I've seen have been smoothed feathered. A silkie breeder I follow on facebook uploaded a picture of a frizzle silkie they made this year and she looks amazing, so fluffy! I wondered how they'd kept the silkie feathering and the frizzle gene, anyone know?
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    Are stud cockerels a thing?

    Hi, Bit of a random question but I was wondering if people hire out their cockerels for a couple of weeks to act as a stud for a flock of hens? I've got a hen that I'd like to breed from, and would like to match her up to a good standard cockerel without having to keep the cockerel permanently...
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    Creating new chicken breeds

    I posted this in the general breeds discussion but then started to look through the Exhibition, Genetics and & Breeding forum and thought it would fit better here, hope you don't mind. I was reading a post from 2011, and the poster had asked whether it was possible to create a new breed of...
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    Creating a new breed of chicken

    I was reading a post from 2011, and the poster had asked whether it was possible to create a new breed of chicken and if so how would someone get recognition for doing this. It was an interesting thread to read through. A few responses mention having their own breeding projects on the go with...
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    Are ornamental ducks tame if raised from hatching?

    I was thinking of hatching some ducks, as I've had them before and loved them. I started looking at some of the ornamental breeds as they are so pretty, but I also want my ducks to be pets. Obviously they're not domesticated, but if you hatch them will they be tame and like normal pet ducks?
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    Hen hasn't eaten anything for 2 days Help

    Hi I've posted previously about losing 2 chickens very suddenly and having one that had symptoms of something but was surviving. So the surviving hen has been to the vet and re-started on anti-fungal medication for her crackly chest. Her chest has improved but she isn't eating. Her comb was...
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    fluid in the air cell

    Hi, I've got two eggs on day 17. They were shipped and have misshapen air cells but have developed well. However I was doing a staggered hatch and my other eggs hatched out 3 days ago. I raised the humidity when they hatched and I think it may have gone too high. When I look at the two eggs left...
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    aggressive hen

    Hi, I have a 2 year old silkie that is so mean. Last year she went broody and never stopped being aggressive. I initially had 4 hens and she relentlessly went after two of them. Not just chasing and the occasional peck, she'd land onto on them and try and hold them down while pecking. 2 chickens...
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    Do you think I should assist with this air cell?

    Hi, this is a shipped egg and as you can see the air cell isn't quite where it should be. I think the chicks head is in the top end of the shell - blunt end, but if it tries to pip I'm not sure if it will pip into the side ways air cell or the other side. It's day 21. The egg has been really...
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    why are my chickens dying

    4 weeks ago 2 of my chickens had a respiratory infection. This was treated with antibiotics from the vet, the whole folk was treated. About a week later one of those chickens died. He had some sort of fit and couldn't breath and died within 15 minutes. Prior to that he had been running around...
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    Early developing too quickly, plus staggered hatch advice?

    So 12 days ago I put 7 eggs in my incubator, only one has developed. Fortunately it's got really good veins and seems pretty strong. It's a serama egg, and it's wobbling at day 12! I've hatched them before and they wobbled at day 15. Yesterday, day 11, I thought I had seen it move but put it...
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    Adding eggs to the incubator??

    Hi I ordered 12 eggs for my incubator, we're on day 6 and only one egg is developing. I slipped in two on my own eggs, I don't know if they're fertile yet, 2 days ago. I really don't want this poor little egg to hatch and be on its own. If the two I put in are fertile and start to develop could...
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    help understanding why my rooster died

    Hi My rooster passed away an hour ago, and I'm looking for some sense of what may have been wrong with him. About two weeks ago he was doing something odd with his neck, I had a look in his mouth and there was something in his throat. After googling I thought it could be canker or wet pox. I...
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    Mareks or Wry Neck

    Hi, this afternoon I saw my rooster rolling around and flapping with its neck on the floor and twisted. My initial thoughts were wry neck due to how twisted the neck was. I've had a chicken with it before and the presentation looked similar. I gave him some vitamin drops and him into a box for...
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    Types of Silkies - Large Fowel, Bantam, miniature, USA?

    Hi I'm UK based and I realise that the way Silkie's are classified varies in different countries. In the UK, I believe, there are two classifications, large fowel and bantam. However I also see the occasional advertisement for a USA Silkie, in both large and bantam. When I look at the pictures...
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    Buying eggs from abroad

    Hi I'm based in the UK and I'm trying to find some good bantam Silkie and Serama hatching eggs. I have previously brought from UK breeders and while they're good birds I can't seem to find a seller that produces exceptional birds of these breeds, particularly Silkies. I'm looking at...
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