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    could it be, she’s a he?

    these babies were hatched may 24th, making them ~33 days. out of the 7, 4 are confirmed males, while 2 are confirmed females. this one in particular is odd to me- she has had very quick feather development like another cockerel, is large and slender-bodied like the other cockerels, and is...
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    4 Week old BYM comb development… male or female?

    I hatched a few BYM hatching eggs and ended up with three pea-combed chicks. While all 3 of my single-combed chicks ended up visibly male, only one pea-combed chick so far has shown any comb development. However, while the 3 cockerels constantly size off and challenge each other, I’ve never seen...
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    Chicken Throw Over Fence! What Breed?

    Mystery is our chicken we happened to come across after losing a much beloved delaware hen, Flurry… My father buried her, and a week later, proclaimed that she’d come back to life. We walked out in awe to another white chicken walking around the yard. I’d genuinely thought he was losing his...
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    Cheap SHEIN incubator chicks hatched!

    on may 3rd, i received eleven intact eggs in the mail from ohio. after letting them rest i put them in my cheap shein incubator as a little experiment- hatching chicks for the first time, in the cheapest, most accessible way possible. it was amazing to watch them pip for the first time! i...
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    dark faverolle pullet or a dude?

    this baby came from my first ever batch of hatched chicks, out of the smallest pink egg i was sent. i know she is half salmon faverolle, but the male sire could be anything from black/white cochin to black copper maran. she is very faverolle-heavy though, her momma did the heavy lifting...
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    Chick Suddenly Can’t Walk?

    These babies hatched on the 24th and have been healthy and happy, but I left them for a day (yesterday) in the care of my dad who has taken care of and raised chicks before and came back to my favorite chick Marshmallow suddenly lame. Her legs shake and feel weak when she’s sitting in my hand...
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    puffed up, SICK hen!

    was told today one of the girls didn’t want to come out of the coop. went outside and she’s puffed up. she still goes after food and water, but she isnt talking and moves very rigidly. her crop is small and it isn’t sour/impacted. i would say egg bound but that would be weird because she hasn’t...
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    is she going blind in one eye?

    I have an amerucuana girl Poppy maybe about 2 years or so old now that i noticed was wincing her left eye and closing it. i picked her up and checked and her left eye is cloudy (a lot moreso in person) but i couldn’t see any injuries, it’s just watering and she’s closing it. she’s eating and...
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    premature molting?

    I have a buff brahma girl aged 9 months old that started laying september 24th and stopped laying november 10th. it was really odd because she’s young, but we didn’t know what to think of it. came outside to clean the coop and noticed she looked a lil scragglier than before. turns out pin...
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    How to stop a bully?

    Our 4-5 year old barred cochin, Gogo, recently recovered from an expensive crop surgery. After she got better she went back in with the other girls and everything seemed fine, her crop is working again and she’s healthy and eating/drinking/walking properly. I was outside today checking up on...
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    Rescued Roosters Breeds

    Hi, 3 roosters were recently dumped at the park near my house. all have been caught, i know for sure the one i caught is a golden laced polish (not pictured) but the other two that my neighbor caught, i’m not sure. i’m assuming the big one is a lavender orpington, but i could be wrong, also the...
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    Rescued Dumped Rooster! 🐓

    hi all, i was informed of 3 loose roosters dumped at my local park. very upsetting, yes, but nothing i can’t fix. anyway, i drove down to the park and met up with a friend of my mom’s that was also looking for the boys. i brought my girl biscuit with me so he’d feel safer with us there. we were...
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    Dwarf Barnevelder Hen?

    I couldn’t figure out what thread for put this in because nothing seemed to totally match. Anyhow we ordered 20 chicks in April, all 20 survived and we sold 12 of them leaving us with 8 beautiful friendly little hens. We had 4 barnevelders and 1 cockerel and 2 pullets would beat the living...
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    columbian wyandotte, the sequel

    back in april, with 20 random chicks from hoover’s, i never thought i’d get another girl so close to my heart. in april we got 2 separate shipments and ID’d our chicks. to my dismay there was a little creme colored chick, and upon looking at this little thing, i knew what it was. after that, i...
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    drooling chicken?

    okay so my delaware hen Flurry DROOLS. not in a sickly kind of way, we’d know, but she’s done this her whole life- we bought her from a feed store near POL, and she was sold to us as a columbian wyandotte (we picked her up with Kiwi who was sold as a barred rock, and is actually a dominique...
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    Run-In With My First Predator!

    my dad went to close up the chooks earlier and as soon as he stepped out the back door, heard scuffling and the 9 week olds were crying. the older birds were out of their coop and seemed to be just as worried as the babies. he picked up the pullets to put them to bed when out the corner of his...
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    HELP possibly egg bound?

    my 4 year old black sex link Gylfie has been laying on and off, which i’m fine with because she’s older. this morning i came outside and everyone came up to me except her. she wasn’t in her favorite spot under the bushes. i found her in the entrance to the coop, standing there puffed up with...
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    favorite nesting box

    anyone else have a favorite nesting box? we have a flock of 9 laying hens right now with 8 nesting boxes to choose from. came out to hang out with them this morning and saw our barred cochin harass our black sex link out of the nesting box before climbing in herself, as well as our salmon...
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    Broody Cochin- what to do?

    We have an older gal (3 years old? maybe 4) who has just decided for the first time in her barred cochin life that she wants to be a mother. she stole everyone else’s eggs and has screeched and fluffed up at us whenever we go to get our eggs! It’s been about a week now that she’s been like this...
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    Biscuit the No-Wing Wonder!

    In early April we received a wonderful peeping box. 8 golden comets, a cinnamon queen, a speckled sussex. We were so excited to raise chicks again that we hurried them into the brooder, and after a few hours, handled the little balls of fuzz. Then we noticed something, looking down on them...
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