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    Is the sound of a crow genetic?

    My bantam cochin has developed a rather beautiful crow. It's got a bit of a trill, and is somewhat... almost musical compared to my other roosters. Any ideas if he would pass this on? He wasn't my planned keeper but one sounds like a rusty nail and the other trails off with a warble like a...
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    Emergency hatching chamber?

    3 quail eggs hatched this morning, last hasn't pipped yet but is moving in the shell and should be any moment (all set same time). Broody quail mom got scared and ran off with her chicks, leaving the nest. Can I save that egg? Is a heated Tupperware with a warm cloth possibly able to sustain it...
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    What is this dark duckling?

    What is this duck? All dark gray / black as a baby. From a local store's assorted duckling bin. Was hoping for a Cayuga, but feathers are coming in with some brown. Walks like a normal duck, not a runner. Pics from today and from newly hatched shown. Thanks!
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    Silver pheasant keeper aggresion

    My 2 year old male silver pheasant is posturing at me and making the threat noise when I enter the pen. He came at my once when I wore red, which I have not done since, but his posture towards me is increasingly aggressive. Though he still eats out of my hand when I refill the food trough. Is...
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    Help! Quail hen on and off eggs during hatch

    Hi! Advice needed. New quail mama sat great the whole time. The babies started hatching today, while she still had flock mates in the pen (I thought I had a few days yet). Another hen kicked her out and dragged off the first two to hatch. I arrived home to those two dead hatchlings, one...
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    Might I be female?

    Any votes for still good chance it might be female? This one has more comb and wattle growth than the rest, so wondering if I can safely write off as a male. 10 weeks old, and challenges my other non-silkie known cockerels. I've got someone coming to pick up my cockerels so wondering if I should...
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    Anybody I should wait to evaluate?

    Do you think this white one has a chance at being female? They are a few days out from 8 weeks old. Father is a whiting true blue, mother is a Sunnyside Easter egger. This chick often challenges the other boys. The comb is a bit pink but smaller. Siblings shown for comparison. Unknown chick...
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    This much red is all boys?

    Looking at the white chicks in the photos. Should I expect most of these to be boys? Brahma roo with various egg laying breed mother's (Australorp, barred Rock, Brahma, orpington, rir, etc). I definitely do not understand Brahma combs! They're 6-7 weeks old, their combs are not large, but they...
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    I must be Ayam Cemani x CCL?

    Hey all! Can you confirm? This baby was supposed to an Ayam Cemani x Ameraucana cross. Most other chicks that came with him have muffs and do appear to be Ayam Cemani x Ameraucana. This guy and one other not so much. He's barred and... whoops, crested! Def not Ameraucana. The other, possible...
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    What ate him? (Warning gross pics)

    What ate my pheasant? He roosts on top of the coop, which is fully enclosed by 2x4 welded wire fencing with 2x2 nylon aviary netting over the top. I found his body in the morning, from the feathers looks like he led it on a chase all around the run before it finally got him. The rest of the...
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    What breed and color am I?

    This little one came from the assorted bantam bin at TSC, theoretically a Hoover's hatchery chick. Feathered feet but not fluffy cheeks, growth over the last week is sane as my tiny D'Uccle chicks of the same age. I looked through the hatchery's pages and was thinking a buff or maybe red cochin...
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    Fake quail eggs for nestbox?

    What do you use for fake quail eggs? Wanting a thrift/found object ideally. I use golfballs with my chickens to great success. 3 of my 4 quail hens will only reliably use the nestbox if there are already other eggs in it, so I need something I can leave in there. Thanks!
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    How long does a hen have to be broody before you can introduce chicks?

    How long does a broody have to be broody before introducing chicks works? I have seen many posts about how old chicks can be and still be adoptable, but I'm wondering how long a hen has to sit on eggs before she will consider adopting chicks. Does the hen have to have brooded for the full...
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    I'll pay you to tell me one is a girl

    Ok so not really. But I have four silky crosses and a half sibling, I really wanted just one girl! Dad is a silkie x EE for first four, Mom is Rhode Island red or barred rock or LF barnyard or buttercup. Dad for the little one with the wide flat-ish pea like comb chick is a blue bantam and mom...
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    How far will chickens free range in a few hours?

    I have a 25x50 fenced run with coop. My house is on one side 75 ft away (lots of trees and flowers, moist and shady). The other side is all field (wild meadow growth, grassy scattered brush). I'd prefer they spend more time in the field than around the house. If I put a door in the run on the...
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    What kind of comb is this chick getting?

    Hello! I can't find a reference of baby chick combs, can you help with this one? It looked like a single comb to start with but in the last few days this other row of spikes showed up and now it's two distinct rows. Baby is from a bantam barnyard mix, a black rosecomb roo by supposedly a...
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    First cull story

    Long read, kinda sad, kinda comedy of errors, okay in the end: Got home late in the evening a few days ago (work a full time off farm job) and found blood all over the roost. Turns out a sweet older hen had been having issues laying and was slowly bleeding out. She was my first cull. I had...
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    Sores between toes, frostbite?

    My little 3 month old pullet stranded herself outside in the snow 2 days ago and her toes were frozen to the touch when I found her after she wasn't in the coop at sundown (5 F and 2 ft of snow here). Got her inside the house and warmed her up, but she was also pretty thin and weak, so I kept...
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    Vetrx origins as human medicine

    Hello! So I was on the vet RX site, and they said that VetRX was a slight adaptation of a recipe used for humans in the 1900s! Sure enough, here is the "Save the Baby" medicine with very similar ingredients as VetRX. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_724639...
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    Blue with dark areas?

    What is going on with this lady's genetics that her body looks blue with darker feathers/areas? Is it normal for blues to be so irregularly colored? If so, is this a modifying gene, or something she'll grow out of like the occasional white feather in some blacks? I understand that dark edging on...
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