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    Red neck and lost neck feathers under chin?

    Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew what might be happening to my maran cross cream legbar hen? And if so what I might be able to do to help her! She has a patch of red and featherless skin under her chin along her throat. It looks inflamed and red the closer to her chin. It doesn't seem to...
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    Rate my Rooster (Purebred Cream Legbar)

    This is Noodle my Purebred Cream Legbar Cockerel. He is lovely, calm, allows me to pick him up as I please and looks after his ladies well. Although he can be a bit daft and face a corner of a wall for a while, or call over the hens to look at some chicken poop :gig I was just wondering how...
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    Cream Legbar cross chicks (Maran X and Barred Plymouth Rock X), sexing and colour genetics?

    So I've recently been sucked into the black hole of what is chicken colouring genetics. And after days of research... I'm still a bit confused I've discovered how wonderfully complex and interesting this area is! And would like some advice, thoughts, opinions or maybe some links to information...
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    Cream Legbar cross chicks (Maran x CL, Barred Rock x CL), colouring genetics and sexing

    So I've recently been sucked into the black hole of what is chicken colouring genetics. And after days of research... I'm still a bit confused :lau I've discovered how wonderfully complex and interesting this area is! And would like some advice, thoughts, opinions or maybe some links to...
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    Look how cute they are 😆

    These little guys hatched yesterday, a couple days early, but completely healthy and beautiful! Just wanted to share the cuteness Super proud as this is the first time I got a 91% hatch rate (thanks to my new brinsea) from all the fertile eggs :ya the only fertile that I'm waiting on to hatch...
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    Abnormal alive embryo day 18...

    So I just candled my eggs today (day 18 of the incubation) and one of my cream legbar eggs is weird. It's 100% alive; moving around like crazy, beautiful veins all over etc. But it's half the size of the other emrbyos. It's only taking up about 3/7ths of the space in the egg. It's looks like a...
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    Day 22: 1 pipped 24hrs ago, not hatched, 7 eggs no pip. What do I do?

    Hi This is my second batch of eggs, my first batch I got 4 out of the 5 eggs that were put in lockdown, and all hatched within 12 hrs of pipping. Same incubator, new eggs. One pipped on day 21 but it is now 24 hours later and although she's made her whole bigger, she is quite a way from...
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    Best incubator Rcom or Brinsea?

    I was gifted a friend of a friend's incubator, that they used once. It's a janoel24 (approx £100), and I think I now know the reason why they gifted it for nothing. I did one hatch (shipped eggs) and got a 33% hatch rate (4/12). I'm now on my 2nd hatch (shipped eggs again), I'm on day 15 and I'm...
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    To candle or not to candle?

    To candle or not to candle? That is the question. (Sorry for the terrible pun :lau) But truly, how much should you candle during chicken egg incubation.? I've got 24 shipped eggs in the incubator and already lost 4. I've read so many posts, sites and article on this, all have very varying...
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    HELP! yellow crystals day 6 of incubation BCM eggs! Are they goners? Cracked one open to see...

    Hi, I'm on day 6 of a incubation of 6 Black copper marans (BCM), 6 Cream legbars (CL) and 12 buff orphintons (BO). Everything seems alright with all eggs (either growth or potential growth), but 3 of my beautiful BCM eggs have these small yellow/clear crystals on the outside of the shell. I'm...
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    Looking for Croad Langshan hatching eggs UK?

    Hi, I've been researching and found out about a beautiful breed; Croad Langshan! :love They apparently have gorgeous personalities, interesting plum or lilac hued eggs and black with green sheen feathering! However, It turns out they're a pretty rare breed. I've been looking online and only...
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    Show me your coops!

    Hi, I'm building a chicken house to go in our fenced run in our back garden. However I would love to get some ideas and inspiration from those who have had chickens before (And knows what works and what you like or need). Please show me a photo or drawing of your coop and any reasons you like...
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    Your opinion Best Backyard chicken breeds? free range, friendly, docile, good egg layers and color

    Hi, I'm new to raising chickens, and I've just recently hatched some barred plymouth rocks! :jumpy However I want to have a few different breeds to have egg color variety (Cream, blue, brown, green etc.). They'll be living in my back yard, free ranging and would ideally like them to be super...
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    Help sexing Barred Plymouth rock chicks (have a guess!)

    On the 16th evening to 17th morning of April, (approximately 3 days ago) I hatched 4 cute little barred plymouth rock chicks! (YAY!!!) :jumpy:jumpy:jumpy:jumpy And being the keen researcher I am, I fell into the rabbit hole of the hundreds of posts and videos on how to identify what sex the...
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