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  1. Canadian Wind

    Everything for sale, Eastern Ontario, Canada

    Due to circumstances out of my control, I need to sell all my birds as well as some of the rabbits. Available are: - Chantecler trio, Buff roo and a buff and a white hen. Hatched May 2024. Laying and I have eggs from them due to hatch this weekend, so buff chicks will also be available. -...
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    Growth on chickens eye

    Just noticed this today. Almost looks like when a person gets a sty. She's otherwise healthy. Should I do anything about it?
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    Ducks getting old - show me your pics!

    As I was doing my morning chores today, I noticed that my oldest duck, Coco, was changing colours. When I got her just over two years ago, I had no idea what age she was but she already had the white feathers on the back of her head/neck which I figured were from mating. She was completely...
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    Colour for Banty Cochin roo

    Got him at auction yesterday for $3!!! Like I needed another rooster...
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    Paint? BYM cockerel colour, plus Breeding

    I got this boy about 4 weeks ago, estimating his age around 9-10 weeks. He's a BYM and I purchased him with what I am assuming are his siblings, who are all black. Part 1: Trying to figure out his colour. Part 2: I want to breed him (eventually!) to a Black Sex Link BYM that I hatched...
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    Breed ideas?

    I just can't figure it out.
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    Cross-Billed Duck and Winter Temps

    I'll link the post I made in the duck forum. Not getting any replies. Basically, I have a cross-billed duck and I worry about how it will do over winter as the tongue is exposed. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cross-billed-duck-in-winter.1636146/ Thanks!
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    Cross-Billed Duck in Winter?

    I had a duckling hatch with a crossed-bill, due to a power outage that lasted 60 hours. This was back in April. It's now full grown for the most part (can't tell if male or female due to being mute and isn't old enough yet for a drake curl) but as it grew the deformity became worse. My whole...
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    Duckling hatched with deformed bill

    This little fella hatched not too long ago. I can't even tell if it an open it's bill. What do you think it's chances are? It's one of the survivors from my infamous 60 hour power outage. The eggs were at around 5 days incubation at the time. I'm thinking this may have been the issue...
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    Adjusting for 60 hour Power Outage

    After the massive storm that hit the north east last week, I lost power for almost 60 hours. I had two incubators running, one that was in lockdown. The incubators were wrapped and bundled so as to save as much heat as possible but after three days that was kind of moot. After I let the eggs...
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    Dusky Buffs?

    Is there such a thing as a Dusky Buff Orpington? I got Coco a couple of years ago and thought she was a Buff, but when I got another Buff a few weeks ago this one is much lighter in colour. Coco has no markings whatsoever, just a mostly uniform milk-chocolate brown, with gray at her wings...
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    Falling Down Heights, my daily life

    Inspired by so many other blogs, I decided to make my own. I'll try to update daily. First, the name. Falling Down Heights. Finally figured out a name for my little homestead. Because I fell down, again. And we live in the mountains. Today's fall happened when I was giving the ducks...
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    Getting Brahmas

    After debating for a few years, I'm finally going to take the plunge and get some Brahmas. I've ordered 2 Light females, 2 Dark females, and 2 Buff females, as well as a Buff male. What would chicks with this male be? Chicken genetics are currently way above my head, even though I have a very...
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    My duck turned into a drake!!!

    :rant Picture this. Duckling that I hatched myself, so had since pre-birth (lol). Grew up with three 'siblings', so it was easy to compare as they matured. This duckling started quacking at the same time, if not a bit earlier, as two of the others. And I mean QUACK. Nice and loud! Great...
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    More colour confirmations on mixed-breeds

    Approximately 8 weeks old. Mother is a Splash Bantam Cochin, or is supposed to be as I raided her hidden nest! Father is a ??? Choice of a red mixed-breed, or a BBR EE. Obviously, Momma has some hidden genes, lol! Curious about the two on the left. Bottom one I think is a Blue Buff. The...
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    OEGB pullet colours, please

    Can anyone give me the colours of these two pullets, please? Thank you! They are both about 6 1/2 months old.
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    Difference between Muscovy and Domestic ducklings

    I'm kind of embarrassed to be asking this but... what is the difference between domestic ducklings and Muscovy ducklings at hatch??! lol
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    Rooster brooding. Is this normal?

    Greetings! As the title says, I have a rooster sitting on an egg! He's a bantam Cochin, and today I found him in a nesting box sitting on an egg and making 'come hither' sounds. Is he just trying to lure one of the hens to come sit? I know Cochin are renown for being broody at the drop of a...
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    Breed ideas?

    Almost 100% sure his father was a Silver-Gray Dorking (he has five toes), although it could also be a RIR. He hatched from a banty egg (can't remember actual size, but he was the first from a batch of 15 to hatch), so mom would be either a Silkie x, Cochin banty (he's clean legged though)...
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    Eggs not fertile

    What am I doing wrong? Or rather, what are my Muscovy doing wrong?? Last year, all three of my hens sat, and none of the eggs were fertile. I got rid of the male and brought in 'fresh blood'. I currently have three broodies, two of which have been sitting for over a week if not more, so...
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