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    Help! Possible broken hip/thigh

    Hello all! So a little history is needed on this one. We’ve had a running problem with raccoons and opossums killing our birds at night. So the other night when I was woken up by the noise of a chicken fighting I ran outside to their yard. Well it was pitch black almost and something came...
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    Silkie colors; so much fun 😁

    I’m really curious what color this one will be. I’ve seen stripes on baby silkies but I’ve never seen them so defined like this. Any ideas or guesses about what y’all think it is?
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    Young Pekin duck stopped laying

    So last week, I had the misfortunate opportunity of having a raccoon dinner guest for 3 nights in a row till I caught it and dispatched it. It started with my 3 bantam roosters, then it was 2 young pullets, and then the final time it was my oldest and biggest hen(barely over a year old) and my...
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    4 and 5 toed Silkie chicks

    So I purchased some Silkie chicks from a lady that’s local and I noticed they had poopy feet when I had gotten them home so while I was washing their feet I decided to look at their toes and noticed that out of the 3 one had 4 toes on each foot and the other two had 4 on one foot and 5 on the...
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    Barred Rock with Silkie feathers

    Hello all! So I’m contemplating an idea and I’d like for y’all to tell me whether I’m cracked in the head or if this is achievable. I’d like to cross Silkie’s and Barred Rocks to achieve: 1.) No barbicels 2.) the barring 3.) the single comb 4.) the black/purple skin of the Silkie 5.) the...
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    Playing the waiting game

    Hey y’all, so I’ve got 3 pullets that just reached 18 weeks old today. 2 Barred rocks and 1 Australorp. And 1 of the barred rocks, Barbara, shows all signs of laying, about 2.5 fingers width at the pelvic bones, but her vent is still all puckered up. The other 2 girls comb and wattles are...
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    3 day old baby chicks keep pecking each other’s wings

    Hello there, I’m new to this so help would be much obliged. I’ve noticed the tips of my chicks wings looked kinda thin/bare and then I noticed several of the chicks would go around and peck at other’s wings. They’re under a heat lamp, kept between 91-95, their brooder box is 2ftx4ft, they’ve got...
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