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  1. Chicalina

    I told my wife No!

    I saw this and just had to share it with you all. I know you'll understand. Chicken math! https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19aqg6oj8U/
  2. Chicalina

    Little bantam Naked Neck

    I suspect boy but the comb and wattles aren't really pink yet, it's the face skin that's pink (redder when hot weather) so it's throwing me. Is lack of face feathers at this age indicative of anything? Also posting it's mother for comparison. It will have a pea comb not a single comb like her...
  3. Chicalina

    Whose eggs are these?

    The potential culprits are: A Wyandotte 2 Naked Necks A Polish An Araucana A Marans A Sussex A Barnevelder Clue: these were all collected the same day. Who is and who isn't laying? PS I know one little madam who didn't produce and one who definitely did.
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    What's on your wish list?

    I've hatched, raised, kept and bred many different breeds over the years and I have long term "I'd love to have one day" list of chicken breeds. And maybe a shorter term "let's try these out this year or next". And some "I want those again" breeds. And also a "no way, never again" list. I...
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    When broodiness goes too far

    I have two broody bantams right now. A Light Sussex and a little black Transylvanian Naked Neck. They've been brooding together in the nest box. I shut off the nest box to break them. Then find them sitting on the roost with one broody brooding the other! Like, when those hormones are strong...
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    Exotic Wyandotte colour

    I hatched this wyandotte bantam hen from a breeder's eggs. The egg should have been blue silver pencilled. It was not. I found a specialist UK breeder who breeds Pyle Partridge birds as she looks similar to his and I sent him a photo but he never replied. She definitely has either pencilled or...
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    Rooster attacking broody hen

    So three of my hens have gone broody. One (blue sussex) is in a separate nest sitting on eggs about to hatch. She can access the flock. All is well. Two others are sharing the main nest box and I haven't tried to break them because I was keeping them as backup broodies in case something went...
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    What comb type is this?

    It is supposed to be a small pea comb. What do you think?
  9. Chicalina

    Once and for all scaly leg mite treatment?

    I've had a scaly leg mite problem in my flock for ages. This is despite me treating it over and over. Some birds seem more susceptible than others. I no longer keep feather footed breeds for instance. Once the mites start then the crud left behind is solid and debilitating. I have tried...
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    What sort of chicken is this?

  11. Chicalina

    Fraud! Araucana and Naked Neck

    So, these two 10 week old chicks I thought were girls up until this week. Now I'm thinking they tricked me! The lavender barred Araucana had a flat blackish comb which is now turning a bit red and slightly lumpy. I had another lavender Araucana from a different breeder who crowed at 5 weeks...
  12. Chicalina

    Confessions of a Chickenaholic...

    I'll go first. I take more photos of my chickens than I do of my children 😳. Here are just a few of the flock. My phone gallery is about 90% poultry! tbf I've got chicks growing up so that's acceptable, right? 😁
  13. Chicalina

    Mystery Sneezing

    I have a mixed bantam flock of many ages including 9 week olds. Quite a few have been sneezing on and off. Not prolifically but noticeably. I don't think it's dust, it's not dusty here. Or allergies as it's not pollen season and there is nothing new in their environment. I don't think it's...
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    Is this just iris colour or something wrong in an Mareksy kinda way?

    I've got a load of chicks of different breeds and colours, some of whom have muddy coloured irises. I'm hoping it's a common feature of lavender or mottled or splash or something, not the 'thing that shall not be named". They were all vaccinated at hatch, and I bought them at 3/4 days old...
  15. Chicalina

    Naked Neck guesses please

    Whadya reckon, boy or girl out of these two? 5 weeks old and cute as buttons! I think potentially the dark one is a pullet, and the white frizzle is a cockerel, based mainly on thickness of legs, size and shape. But I am just not sure. Both sometimes have redder necks if they are warm, going...
  16. Chicalina

    Can anyone show me what a blue silver pencilled wyandotte looks like?

    I have apparently hatched one of these. Chick is 3 weeks old. Was all yellow on hatch and growing pure white feathers on wings, chest, back and shoulders. I thought it was a white wyandotte. But I've just noticed some neck feathers coming in that appear to be buff? I checked back to my...
  17. Chicalina

    Little Araucana Chappie - what is your youngest crower?

    Was pretty sure this little chap was a chap at 4 weeks. He is now 5 weeks and I heard a little squawky crow this morning!! What is the earliest you've had a cockerel crow?
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    Araucana Chick vent question

    I've got this one Araucana chick (2 weeks old) who has a distended cloaca. She poops kind of caramel brown loose stools, but her vent is often mucked up with dark reddish brown sticky poop and I've had to clean it several times to stop her getting pasty butt. The vent protrudes a bit. The whole...
  19. Chicalina

    I'm thinking... T Rex!

    Surely this is PROOF that chickens are actual dinosaurs? 😂
  20. Chicalina

    Best guesses for the cause of this bad hatch?

    I had 6 remaining eggs, candled and viable at day 14, under a broody. On day 21: 1 hatched fine 1 hatched with an umbilical hernia Day 22 after broody hen abandoned nest with 2 live chicks, I cracked open the eggs: 2 were sloshing with fluid and had quit before developing further 2 had...
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