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    8 Week Old Polish Chick

    I have six polish chicks and I'm pretty certain on all but one. This one has some red in it's wattles and comb though not much compared to the one I'm certain is a cockerel. It also has a less rounded crest so I've been leaning towards cockerel in the past couple days but I'm not sure. So I...
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    6 weeks old, help confirm suspicions?

    So I have three chicks I'm curious about. Two of them I'm pretty certain of (the black one and the single comb), but the red one I'm now wavering on. I know it's still a bit early but I thought I would ask! (I also have six polish chicks that I know will take much longer to sex.) These are all...
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    Is this bumblefoot?

    One of my chicks has bumps on their feet like it's a bit swollen. They're walking just fine and when I press on it, it doesn't seem to hurt. I've never seen anything like this and none of the other chicks have it as far as I can tell. Is it bumblefoot or something else? What's the best way to...
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    Does this chick need help?

    This egg has pipped and partially zipped but it was getting severely knocked around by the already hatched chicks. It's been this way for awhile and got knocked with the opening pressed against the styrofoam wall. When it got knocked back, this is what it looked like. All the other...
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    Air cell straight across and not slanted, is this okay?

    Sorry for not having pictures right now, I'll try to get some later tonight, but I've noticed that all my eggs have air cells that are straight across the top of the eggs and not slanted like I've seen in the pictures online. I've been turning the eggs an odd number of times a day (usually 3 or...
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    Temperature flux between 98.6 and 101 for a day, are these eggs still viable?

    I've incubated before and had a pretty good 85% hatch rate. I'm using a forced air Hova-bator (not sure what model, big styrofoam thing). The first two days, everything was reading fine. Third day (yesterday), the temperature dropped and then went up to 101 F. I don't think it was there for very...
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    Bantam Cochin Hen Making a Gurgling Sound

    I have a hen that's a little over a year old. She occasionally makes a low gurgling sound when my oldest kid is holding her. It sounds a little like a crinkling or growling or purring but seems to be connected to her breathing though I'm not sure. I tried getting a video of it but it's a very...
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    Anyway to stop a crowing hen?

    I have a Polish hen that was dumped in my backyard awhile ago with another hen. They were both in bad condition and I suspect that the previous owner knew I had chickens and decided to dump them there for that reason. I've treated them and they're doing much better! But one of them, Tax Evasion...
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    2 month old chick tries to eat everything

    I have a pullet that's 2 months old. She's the only one of the very small clutch of eggs my bantam cochin was sitting on that hatched. She's also the only chick I've had raised by a hen. And she tries to eat everything. She eats pieces of bedding and her own feathers. If you try to stop her...
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    5 week old bantam mix gender

    This is Cupid, hatched Feb. 14th. They're the only chick that hatched out of the small clutch my bantam cochin hen sat. The hen is a silkie/bantam brahma mix and the rooster was some sort of bantam mix. Since their the only chick from my roo before I had to rehome him, I'm really curious to see...
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    Rogue feather indicator of gender?

    This chick was hatched Feb. 14th so I think it's a little too earlier to really tell what it is but I know generally hens have a more uniform feather coloration so I was wondering if this feather is an indicator of anything? For reference, the dad also had a feather like this. (The parents are a...
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    Polish hen's wattles are different sizes.

    My Polish hen, Tax Evasion, came to me when someone dumped her and her friend in my backyard, I assume because we were the closest people with chickens. They weren't in good shape and had scaly leg and I still put vaseline on because they both seem to have dry skin issues. Anyway, I have no idea...
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    cockerel raising/fluffing up neck feathers but doesn't seem aggressive?

    Hi! So I have a bantam cockerel, he was hatched at the end of Sept. I've had cockerels before but I've never seen this exact type of behavior and I wanted to make sure I'm not missing a sign that he's uncomfortable or aggressive/upset. I included a picture of the neck fluff and then his...
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    Product to use for mites?

    I got three new chickens and they have mites! Luckily they're separate from my flock currently. Their run/coop is clean but they're clearly itchy and I wanted to know if there's something I can buy to treat it? I live in Canada and don't have access to a lot of the products that come up on...
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    BYM gender?

    This BYM I picked up today was hatched towards the end of September. This is another in my never-ending quest to get my oldest daughter her own chicken so I'd like to see what everyone thinks the gender here might be. I hope the pictures are alright, we just brought them home today.
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    10 week old chick closing left eye

    I have a 10 week old BYM chick. They're active, alert, eating and poop properly. There seems to be nothing in their eye - no discharge, no swelling - but they pretty consistently close their left eye. Nothing else is raising a red flag to me as everything else is normal and they're one of my...
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    Any pullets in this bunch?

    First, these pictures are bad and I'm so sorry. These are from a seller and I don't have anything better. We've had really bad luck with my oldest's chickens: they've all been roosters. She wants her own chicken and so far no one around us is selling hens so we're doing our best to find a...
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    Weird tail feathers on 12 week olds: cockerel or pullet?

    I have two BYM chicks that are 12 weeks old and based on their combs and wattles, I've been thinking they're pullets. But the tail feathers are really tripping me up and making me question that. I'm probably going to have to rehome them and I'd just like to know one way or the other before I do...
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    please help me sex this 11 week old showgirl

    This is Bell. They're 11 weeks old today and I'd really to know what they are as we're trying to downsize our backyard flock but I have no experience with this breed and I'm honestly completely stumped. I tried to get as many pictures as I could.
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    Showgirl gender?

    So this showgirl chick is 8 weeks and five days old which might be too early to tell what gender they are but some of the silkies they were hatched with have pretty solid comb growth so I thought maybe I could get some guesses? Also, are there any signs to keep an eye out for with showgirls...
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