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    4week brown leghorn

    My brown leghorn, Leggy Legs, has a larger comb than her same age buddies. She was sexed, but I know that isn’t always accurate. My first leghorn so I’m curious. Are we just looking at a normal leghorn with a big comb, or a cockerel? Thanks! (L to R - buff Orpington, RIR, cuckoo marans who is...
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    Paint/primer on chickens?

    My chickens walked across/brushed against some newly primed (kilz) wood. Will their new “look” hurt them at all? Thanks!
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    Silkie mom and Larger size dad?

    Okay so…. I know that silkie Roos can totally breed with large/voluptuous lady birds…. But what happens when a silkie hen breeds with a larger daddy bird? Are her little silkie eggs large enough to hold larger baby chicks? Or do they end up being born early or something? Or do the eggs end up...
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    Silkies and polishes 😝 - hens ir

    Let’s play another game of “hen or roo”… advanced (and uncertain) edition! Two polishes: “two face,” white crested black - 8 weeks, sold sexed (female) at feed store. “Poison ivy,” buff laced - 6 weeks, sold sexed (female) at feed store Two silkies: “Splash,” lavender/buff splash - 9...
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    How long can you hide a rooster in the city?

    So apparently one of my turken chicks has decided that he is a cockerel. He is a family favorite (of course) and around 6 weeks old. I live in (farm) town where I can’t have roosters, but I have a realtor looking for some land for me. I only live on 8000sqft of land, with a section of the...
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    Naked neck Easter egger? Hen or roo?

    I’m guessing Milo is about 7 weeks old. Smaller than my other birds of similar ages. I was told that he/she is an EE turken. (Well, obviously he/she is a turken lol) Ive got a couple of his turken half siblings, but they’re supposedly half Cochin, so they’re very different. not one of my...
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    Badly swollen inner eyelid and eye bump

    My poor baby prairie bluebell, Copperhead, is having some major eye problems 😭 I can’t figure out what is going on and it seems to be getting worse. Her inner eyelid on one side is super swollen. On her other eye, she has a bump. No crusting, scabbing, bleeding, etc. She’s maybe a little on the...
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    How do I get paint off hardware cloth?

    So… painted the new coop… paid a teenager to do a lot of the trim. She only taped some of it, so a lot is a disaster. But to be honest, after she got things so messy, I got lazy too and made it worse (to heck with it, they’ll cover it with poop and dust anways. But oh man tons of white drips...
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    Breeds/genders? (Hedemora, turkens, Cochin, Bielefelder)

    My new chicks’ coop isn’t finished yet, but I figured I’d let the older ones go play in it for a while today. Sorry, not the best pics because they’re keeping to one corner in the shade ha. These four are all over a month old. The woman I got them from was just guessing which breeds they were...
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    Stubborn poo on butt/belly

    I have a month old CCL babe with some stubborn pasty butt. I think they got dehydrated when I left them with a sitter for the weekend. When I got home Monday, I noticed at first that her crop was swollen. Her belly was a bit, too, and belly/vent covered. I got it all off of her vent. Couldn’t...
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    How do I line this coop?

    So I just got my gorgeous new deep-litter coop (by The Original Chicken Man - Washington State legend) delivered on Friday. I’ve coated the whole interior with water based glass spar urethane. Planning on painting the outside. But I had been planning on lining the floor and a foot up the walls...
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    New chicks missing lots of feathers

    I picked up two new chicks today, and I’m a little alarmed... they’re half the size that I was expecting, extremely lethargic, and are missing large amounts of feathers. I’m new to chicken keeping and I’m not entirely sure what to do to help these guys out. What should I be looking for? Treating...
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    Introducing older chicks to eachother?

    I’ve got 5 chicks ranging from about 6-8 weeks old. Today, I’m picking up two new 6 week olds. Will it be difficult to introduce them at this age? How should I go about it? One of my 8 week olds definitely is top chicken (think there’s a good possibility it is a roo). The others are pretty...
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    4 week old Easter egger - pullet or roo?

    I know it is super early... but my little EE mix has tail feathers that curl down while all the other chicks are pointing up... thoughts? Pea comb, which doesn’t help haha. (Older than the speckled Sussex and salmon faverolle on the platform, same age as the cream legbar above) (Something...
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    Too big of an age difference? Silkies and large fowl.

    So I’m getting say old chicks on Saturday. Looking at Salmon faverolle, mottled Java, speckled Sussex, and crested cream legbars. (We’ll see what actually happens since I’m letting my kids make decisions within those breeds). Pretty decent sized birds. I also wanted a couple silkies, but of...
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    Hi from Washington State!

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Pretty darn new! Had a flock with my ex, but they were at his place so I didnt (2) How many chickens do you have right now? zero! Picking up new chicks on Saturday! (3) What breeds do you have? we’ll see what we end up with, but...
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