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  1. BackyardinWales

    Is this a silly question?

    Like many of us the question of roo or pullet is real, but I'm curious, do young roosters try to hump roosters? I ask this as my 4 youngsters have gone into a pen together, and despite being advised that one of my birds is a rooster, it's hatchmate (who I know is a male) keeps trying to hump...
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    Am I a boy too?

    Up until now I have been convinced that Maud is a girl, but I recently noticed her comb is bright red and it looks like the wattles are developing. Could someone clarify if I'm right or wrong please.
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    What breed am I?

    I have 3, 20 day old chicks. I'm not worried about the gender right now, but I wondering if anyone can tell ne the breeds. The seller had a number of breeds (names I only recognize from being on here) but I don't know they are. It's just 'two yellows and one black' to me. I'm afraid the...
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    Can chickens go blind?

    Somehow that seems like a silly title, but my old girl (who isn't old) has not been right since about September last year when she did a major moult and stopped laying, and is yet to start again. This isn't really a big worry, but she is slow to join the girls for breakfast, and is very unsteady...
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    A silly question, but how do I know if babies died in their egg?

    Three of my nine eggs have hatched, so I decided to candle a couple of the others. The first one seems full of light, and a dark patch to one side, much like at a week gestation, so I'm guessing that one is dead. The second one is also lit well, but more mass and practically jumped out of my...
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    Can I help fix it?

    My chick has been trying to get out for a long while. Her two siblings were much quicker at getting out of their shells, and I realized there wasn't enough humidity. My error, and a flaw with the Brinsea, at least for me. If I increase the humidity might this help her to finally escape her shell?
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    Can anyone HELP tell me what I'm looking at?

    Is this just yolk residue? Or is it something else? Edit ... it seems to have come away, so I think I guessed correctly.
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    My first successful candling!

    Though I can look at the issue logically now, I had never grasped a concept ... the baby is in the yolk! That sounds so stupid and simple but it had always evaded me. I have candled eggs in the past and always been disappointed at seeing nothing. So after reading a piece on here I thought I'd...
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    Extra eggs

    This is going to be a very silly question since I'm sure that the answer is no, is it normal for a henbyo kay twice in one day? I ask this because I collected 2 eggs this morning, and dated them, and just collected 3 eggs. This might not be strange for 5 hens to lay 5 eggs, but two of the eggs...
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    Herring!

    Saw a comment on here where someone had commented about giving their girls some herring, so yesterday I bought some to treat my girls. They ate it ravenously and even fought over pieces. Great, I thought. A nice treat. It came from my local store but was covered in foreign writing, but since...
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    Am I right that the senior chicken leads the 'to roost' display?

    I've noticed over the last few times putting the girls to bed that they go in in slightly differing order. Tonight it was led by two teenagers, then the two hens, then last teenager. Does the top position regularly change? Does anyone know what the rules are for this change? Considering I...
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    When is my hen likely to start laying again?

    My broody hen has just been taken off her eggs (she didn't thank me) and it turns out they were none of them fertile. Since her sister isn't laying because she molting, will my hen start laying or is she likely to start molting now as they are 14 months old.
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    Do chickens have an issue with pink?

    It's probably a little late to ask, but do chickens have colour issues? I've almost finished building their cwt (roosting coop) and have painted it pink, then suddenly thought "is it going to be an issue for my girls?" I did try Google, but no wiser. Any wisdom out there?
  14. BackyardinWales

    I was greeted with this!

    😲 Shocked to see a LOT of feathers when I entered the girls run this afternoon. Is this how the place looks when one is moulting? I did a head count and all my girls are alive and accounted for.
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    How often a year do hens go broody?

    I have two girls in the nesting box. My hen has been on eggs (not just the two I marked) for 7 days today, and one of my pullets is on day 2, but she'd tried previously. The other girls seem to have stopped laying too. Is it a seasonal thing? Since this is my first year raising chickens I'm...
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    How to move a broody?

    One of my matriarchs has gone broody and won't allow the other girls to lay (at least that's how it appears to me). I decided to let her keep a couple of eggs but wary of moving her as I tried to give her a baby previously but she left him. (He did later die, and I suspect she knew it would...
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    Hen aunty, but does this mean she's broody?

    My matriarch takes to sitting on everypne else's eggs. Does this mean she's broody? If so, could I put my incubating eggs under her when they're ready to hatch? People said she's a possible easter egger, and apparently they're not good for brooding. Am I wrong?
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    Are magnolia seed pods harmful to chickens?

    I have a large magnolia tree in my front yard which sheds a lot of seed pods. I notice the noise when I mow the lawn, but although I'm happy to feed the girls the grass clippings, I'm not willing to do so while I'm hearing the mower chew up the seed pods. Does anyone have an answer? Thank you...
  19. BackyardinWales

    You were right!

    Since I can't find where my original post is, you will know who you are. It turns out that all 3 of my babies were indeed males. The third one, that the vet said was female, did indeed come into his voice the day before he was culled, and that was the morning after I spotted him 'mounting' his...
  20. BackyardinWales

    Bullied hen.

    One of my two older girls is being targeted by my young cockerel. She has gone from being confident girl who lays, to one who would rather be on me or in my arms (which is NOT like her at all). For the last two days she has spent her time hiding in the nesting box, and barely wants to come near...
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