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    Green-eyed roo!

    This is my barred rock/polkie mutt Pork when he was about 2.5 months old. His eyes were slate grey in the first couple weeks, then started taking on a yellow-ish color and have since turned a beautiful shade of green! Does anyone else have chooks with eyes like these? They seem quite rare from...
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    Vegan diet for chickens - is it unhealthy?

    Someone I know has a "rescue" cornish/leghorn cross that they stole off a slaughter truck at 6 weeks. She's now 2 years old and poor girl doesn't look healthy at all. She is fed exclusively greens and (previously) her own eggs. She recieves no commercial feed or supplementation. She is fed 3...
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    Pork and Beans are getting big!

    My little pair of troublemakers turned 4 weeks old this past Sunday! As they get bigger, so do their personalities. These guys sure know how to make me laugh. I suspect Pork (barred rock mother, polkie father) is a cockerel, with that prominent red comb coming in. He loves to cuddle and perch...
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    Introducing my new babies

    In my most recent incubation, only 2 eggs ended up developing. I was really hoping hatch would go smoothly and I wouldn't end up with a lone chick, or no chicks. Thankfully, both had a fast and smooth hatch! Of my six silkie eggs, only one developed. These eggs were older so I was a little...
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    Hatching eggs that were stored upside-down

    I recently got some eggs from a family member. She's not a breeder, but she has a rooster and a decent fertility rate so I decided to try my luck with incubation. She had these eggs for about 10 days before I was able to pick them up and when I got them, I realized they were stored with the air...
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    Only one fertile egg

    I bought 10 buff silkie hatching eggs for $100 off of someone my family knows. I put them in the incubator 5 days ago and only ONE has developed since then. The other 9 have no signs of development whatsoever. No dark spot on the yolk, no veins, nothing. They look completely infertile...
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    Back in the saddle - I'm hatching more chicks!

    Some backstory: I hatched some chicks for my aunt's coop last year, and sadly lost them to a fox not long after. This is a risk I accepted going into hatching; what discouraged me was being berated by a vast number of other hobbyists for "letting" them be taken. If I wasn't in another state...
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    Snuggles With My Babies :)

    I'm their perch now, and I have no say in the matter! :lol: All they want to do is play and cuddle. Hard to believe they were just little eggs this time last month. Now they're big cuddly chicks!
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    My 8-9 Day Old Ameraucana Chicks

    My 3 beautiful ameraucana babies (named Callisto, Elara, and Ganymede) are growing up so fast, and are only getting prettier by the day! They look like little hawks or eagles. They're so active and curious and are right on track to grow into healthy chickens. They enjoy each other's company...
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    When can I start feeding 'treats' to chicks?

    I've seen mixed information on this topic so I would like to ask here before I feed them anything! To clarify, their main diet is medicated chick starter and I am not looking to substitute this! I would, however, like to see how they react to some different little snacks, just for the fun of it...
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    Suspected cockerels in hatch

    I'm very sad to make this post, as I've grown incredibly attached to my little ameraucana chicks. However after reading through some threads on this forum, I believe it is necessary. I suspect at least 2 of my 3 chicks are cockerels---this is based on my observations during vent sexing (though...
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    My little one has me trained...

    My gorgeous little Elara makes SURE I know when she wants attention... As soon as I leave the brooder's side, the screaming begins. The brooder is in our basement and I can hear her upstairs! I started out worried, came downstairs to observe and she immediately went about her normal activities...
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    Suspected neuro issues in new chick

    So this chick hatched this afternoon (I had to assist), and was born with very stiff toes. Now I'm seeing this strange and disconcerting behavior of rolling, distress calling, and scratching at the face. It comes in waves but has been continuing for quite some time. He'll often end up on his...
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    New chick has stiff, curled toes; trouble walking

    He seems healthy otherwise, but his toes are still and curled up. He was malpositioned in the egg (pipped at narrow end) and I had to help him hatch at around 2PM today as it had been over 12 hours since he unzipped, with continuous struggling to hatch. He's very active, he wants to move around...
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    My first baby :)

    The first chick of my first ever hatch! This is Elara, she is an ameraucana---possibly a blue splash, but not 100% sure of the color ID just yet! Hard to tell on such a tiny baby. :D I'm only keeping these little guys to hatch and rear; I unfortunately don't have the space or resources to keep...
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    Heat plate too big for brooder box... Gah!

    WELL... this was not a calculated mistake! Setting up my brooder box and discovered that my heating plate---Producer's Pride brooder & coop heater from TSC---is way bigger than I had expected and doesn't leave much open space in the box. There is some, enough to squeeze in a feeder and waterer...
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    Dry membrane? Help! UPDATED

    UPDATE: The little one I was worried about is only growing more vigorous, and talkative. He/she won't seem to stop chirping or rocking around! The membrane seems to have gotten much whiter as well. :D I've opened the incubator a couple times today, each only for a few seconds at a time---once...
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    OfWolvesAndHen's Introduction!

    Greetings! My name is Daniel and I am pretty new to the hobby of keeping chickens. In fact, I don't even own any! Some members of my family raise chickens and were so kind as to gift me some hatching eggs this past weekend. Though I've never kept chickens, I am no stranger to the general...
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    Day 3 Development Progress?

    I'm on Day 3 of my first ever attempt at hatching and to say I'm excited is to say nothing! So far, 5 of my 10 eggs are growing beautifully with a nice clear view of the start of the embryo. The other 5 are showing no signs of growth, though; no veins or anything have formed. At first only 2...
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