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    How bad is this scissor beak?

    This is the first time I’ve ever encountered a chick with scissor beak before, and I was just wondering if someone more knowledgeable could let me know how bad it is/how I can better accommodate this fella. The entire clutch has some issue one way or another but I’ve just come to accept that I...
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    Broody hen keeps getting off her eggs

    I have a broody silkie, just over a year old. I want her to hatch out some chicks but she keeps getting off of her nest. It happens randomly. Like, she’ll be doing super good and staying on all day, and then she’ll get off for three hours or overnight. I cracked open a few of the eggs she’s been...
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    Mystery Bantam

    I picked up this tiny chick from tractor supply along with 2 silkies and a golden serbright. I thought it was a black tailed japanese but it seems to have little white tail feathers coming in. Any ideas? Last pic is compared to a silkie the same age
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    Deformed baby! Help!

    I’ve been incubating three silkie eggs I bought online and only one of them survived. The other two died mid hatch and never pipped. The last one was peeping up a storm and I could see it wiggle and try to get out but it just couldn’t seem to make a hole. I made a safety hole and assisted the...
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    Detached Air Cell?

    I had silkie eggs shipped in and one was a dud and now one has a wonky air cell. Is it detached? And does it effect the hatch rate? It’s day 16-17
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    Shrink Wrapped Duck?

    I'm a bit concerned about my duck being shrink wrapped. I noticed that the air cell was getting bigger and bigger and the shadow inside of the egg got odd shaped like it was pressing against the duck to make a weird shape. I tapped open a hole into the aircell so I could see what was going on...
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    Mottled Silkie eggs (infertile?)

    I recently bought four silkie eggs online and when they arrived the box was completely crushed but the eggs appeared to be fine. I candled them and all four of them are mottled and have rough feeling tips. Today is about day two or three and I'll know either tonight or tomorrow if they're...
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    Ducks going blind- no aparent injury

    Hi, My step sister and I own four khaki campell ducks and the other day I noticed that one of them had a crusty, goopy eye with a rim of white around it. My sister caught her and put her into isolation, but her eye is milky and blind at this point. She bought her some ointment to help it heal...
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    LF White Silkies and Buff Polish

    Hello! I was looking to get some bantams and was wondering if anyone had any silkie and polish eggs available! Even better if someone can ship chicks I am mostly looking for white silkies and buff polish, but I am willing to compromise on color. I am also located in Bucks County PA If you are...
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    Lethargic baby pigeon! Help!

    I’ve been hand feeding my baby pigeon since he’s hatched and he’s usually very excited and energetic all the time, but in the past 4 hours since I’ve fed him last he’s lethargic, quiet, hardly moving, firm crop, and his he can hardly keep his head up!! He won’t even open his mouth for water! I...
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    Normal Newborn behavior?

    I had a baby pigeon just hatch and he’s kicking an awful lot and flopping around quite a bit. He has very powerful legs at least! Is this normal baby behavior or should I be concerned? He keeps almost flipping himself onto his back but eventually flops back
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    Pipped but not coming out

    I have a pigeon that has been trying to get out for about two days now. I can hear him tapping on the egg but he's only made a little hole and his beak-tip is sticking out. since he only made a little hole to breathe from instead of scoring around the egg I'm concerned that he's not doing too...
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    Male and Female don’t like each other?

    I found an experienced breeder to guide me through keeping and breeding pigeons and he gave me a pair of Saxon fairy swallows. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like they like eachother and literally stay on opposite corners of their cage. He told me that the male is older and the female is much...
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    Keeping pigeons warm in winter?

    So I’m building a home for a breeding pair of pigeons I’m getting soon (probably Homers, but I’m looking into fancier breeds) and I’m really concerned about keeping them warm in the wintertime. I live in Eastern PA and it gets quite frigid some winter nights. My chickens are all fine and...
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    Clutch of small duck eggs?

    My khaki Campbell’s just started laying a month or two ago and I walked into the coop today and found a clutch of 10 eggs. I want to incubate these eggs but I’m worried about how small they are. All of my duck’s eggs are about the same size as my Easter egger’s, and I was worried about them...
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    Silkie Hybrid?

    This lil guy hatched last night and she doesn’t look like any of her siblings. She has white fluff and black skin, kinda like a silkie, but no extra toe. She came out of a light brown egg but it was the same size as all of the other eggs so I’m not sure that she’s a bantam. Maybe a hybrid? Any...
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    Pipping early???

    Ok so I have chicken eggs that are on day 19 and I locked down the incubator yesterday to prep for hatching and I think I see a pip? It’s right in the middle of one of my O markers so I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have missed it when I placed the eggs for lockdown. Is this normal?? Is this just an...
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    Not fertile?

    I purchased eggs from a local farmer who hatches eggs from his hens all the time. I put them in my incubator and I’ve been turning them four times a day and the temp is firmly at 100°F. It’s the third day I’ve had the eggs and today I checked on one of the leghorn eggs I have and it doesn’t look...
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    Fussy Baby?

    I just bought two hatchery quality silkies from Tractor Supply along with four khaki Campbell’s. The Campbell’s were supposed to be raised by my sister who moved out unexpectedly and now they’re my responsibility. One of the silkie chicks is bossing it up with the ducks and they’re living...
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    Hello!

    Hi, my name is Lydia and I’m the owner of 6 adorable Easter Eggers and now a new batch of chicks for this year. I’ve raised my hens from babies and I think they like me, but I still have lots of questions still regarding my new chicks and ducklings.
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