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    Wtb

    Hello, I have whiting true blue cockerels that have gorgeous colors. I know so little about feather color genetics but would like to learn more so I can choose who to breed with. I don't know their original source but they were from a local to me not a hatchery. Like what makes the head black...
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    Combs and hot AND cold breeds

    After a very brutal cold streak with some frostbite on my 2 roosters. Which breeds of chickens have small single comb. I was just looking at anyone with a small comb for the future but saw that orpingtons which are cold hardy have single combs but are smaller, has anyone had an Orpington...
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    Hand turning

    I got a really cheap incubator from Amazon based on someone’s success using it. It does not have an autoturning function. I was wondering instead of turning each individual egg if I could tilt the entire incubator from side to side. I read that 45 degrees is best and you do a 90 degree turn each...
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    Molting question

    I have poulets that are laying and cockerels of the same age. Then I have a few girls that are over a year old. I was concerned will the cockerels still try to mate with the older girls when they start molting? I’m afraid for their backs 😥
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    Age to breed

    At what age are roosters ready to breed new baby chicks and same questions for pullets. I assume for pullets you should at least wait until their eggs are adult sized? Anything else I should be aware of for picking fertilized eggs to hatch?
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    Coccidiosis

    I have 7 chicks 1 week old. One was will a mama hen but she kept losing it so I put it with the friends I got for it from ts. I noticed bloody poop just a couple days ago so I started them on corid. The directions are vague. 3-5 days 7-14 days maintenance. How do I know how long to give it to...
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    Rir?

    Sorry about the dirty window. I was told I was hatching a rir.....but she looks very light is this a normal color variation?
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    Baby chick not right

    I got a wyandotte chick from tractor supply, I didn't notice until I got home that it was a little runty, it was also very lethargic and wouldn't eat. I gave it some nutridrench and fed it boiled egg. By the end of the day it had good energy. I've been giving it boiled egg everyday I don't think...
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    Poulet clear and white mucous vent

    So I was doing a random health check and one of my girls 17 weeks old not laying yet, her vent looked like it had a little white and clear mucous….she seems fine otherwise. Could it be the very beginning of vent gleet? I gave them all milk kefir just in case.
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    Black rock

    I see online that black Plymouth rocks exist……but can you buy them in the USA?
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    Bachelor pad management

    I just moved my 2 17 week cockerels to their bachelor pad in sight of the hen pen…..it’s been only 2 days and now the more dominant one crows non stop starting at 6am until I let the girls out of their coop :( do they need to be further apart? Not see each other?
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    Subordinate cockerel

    This is my first time with chickens, I have 9 raised together 16 weeks 2 are cockerels. The dominate rooster is starting to mate with the pullets, they don’t love it….but what’s weird is the subordinate cockerel likes to watch and today even helped hold the pullet still….is this normal?
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    Introducing mature hens to 13 week old pullets/cockerel

    I have 3 cockerels and 7 pullets all raised together (first flock). I have a chance to get 2 laying hens from a friend’s flock….how would you suggest integration go? My teenagers free range, I thought I might make a chicken tractor for the 2 new hens and keep them in that until every ignore each...
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    Chickens don’t know how to eat?

    These are my first chickens ever they are 13 weeks. If I throw greens to them they don’t eat it, they will only eat it if I hold it for them so that they can tear little bits….is this normal? Do you think it’s just because they are young and have no mature hens to teach them? ….also they don’t...
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    Feed predator

    Has anyone seen that feeding the predators help them leave your chickens alone, or does it just keep predators around regularly? Thank you!
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    Cockerel practice mounting

    Hello, My chickens were born feb 20 so they are almost 12 weeks, this is my first flock and I hatched 7 females and 6 males…..I just caught a cockerel mounting a hen this morning….do they practice way before 16 weeks? And does this mean the roosters are going to start fighting earlier? I’m...
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    Plymouth rock Roo x RIR

    Hello, I really want a Rock rooster, i was wondering if i breed him with RIR hens if the characteristics would be similar to black star minus the sex link. I dont care what they look like, I just want them to be good layers, not broody and hopefully not die in 3 years
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