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    4 week old SLW chicks? Suppose to be all pullets??

    Hey everyone! We went ahead and bought 4 Chicks from tractor supply. They were labeled as “premium pullets” and the lady said that they were all guaranteed female egg layers. Well, some of them aren’t looking so feminine 😆. What does everyone else think since I’m not the best at sexing chicks...
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    2 month old chicks: Pullets or Cockerels?

    Hey! These chicks are now 2 months old. They are all just BYM, we need to start giving away the boys soon so I’m trying to figure which ones are the boys. This one is looking like a pullet to me, but I don’t know. These are my two suspected (cockerels) but they still have no male specific...
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    SLW chick comb question.

    I’ve never had chickens with rose combs before, so I don’t know anything about them. But we have 4 SLW chicks and they all have recognizable rose combs except for one. Does it look like a single comb or a pea comb? I know that SLW are supposed to have rose combs so that’s why I’m wondering...
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    Hen mounting other hens?

    My 2 year old alpha hen has recently been mounting my younger hens! Is this normal? Or should I be concerned? Thanks!
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    Austra White question.

    Hey there!:frow I’ve got a question for all you people with Austra Whites or people who know stuff about them. So males are all white, and females will have black spots/splotches. Correct? So as chicks will the males never even grow any black feathers in the first place? I’ve got a 3 1/2 week...
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    Different age chicks meshing?

    Hey! So I have 3 week old chicks, 2 pullets and 2 cockerels. I was wanting more pullets, but I can’t find any chicks at this very moment. So I was wondering, how old is too old to add new baby chicks in with these 4?
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    2 month old chicks: Pullets or Cockerels?

    My thoughts were that the first two are boys and second two are girls. But I just came on here to double check. 😊 First chick: either cuckoo maran or barred rock. Second chick: also either cuckoo maran or barred rock. Third chick: Austra white Fourth chick: Black Australorp.
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    Sexing and Identifying Black/White chicks.

    Hey everyone! So I hatched out some shipped eggs, and there 3 chicks from the batch that are black and/or white. The seller of the eggs listed the possible breed that could hatch. Here are the possible breeds of these chicks, Black Australorp, Barred Rock, Barred Plymouth Rock, Sussex, and...
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    Sexing Barred Plymouth Rock chicks.

    Hi everyone! I’ve got some day old Barred Plymouth Rock chicks that I’m wondering how to tell the sex. ( They are usually sex-links right?) Here are the three of them. Any ideas? This first one has no white spots. This second one just has a tiny circle. And the third one has like three small...
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    When to assist??

    I am fairly new to incubating eggs, and so I’m wondering when should I assist? Currently three of the eggs are pipped and have been for at least 12 hours, with no progress at all. My last batch of chicks hatched less than an hour after their first pip, so I’m not sure if this is normal or when I...
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    Help! Almost all of my eggs have detached air cells!!

    I’m on day 4 of incubation, with 12 shipped eggs. I let them sit, fat end up for 19 hours before incubation, but I just candled and all are developing amazingly, but 11 of the eggs have big detached air cells! What should I do?
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    🌿Hatch-along! Nature Themed!🌿

    Hey everyone! I am incubating some eggs and I thought that it would be fun to do a hatch-along! So, ya’ll can pick an egg and name it with a nature name!!
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    Would adding 1 or 2 new pullets help the picking on?

    So I have a flock of hens, and I later hatched out 3 chicks, (1 female, 2 males) we couldn’t keep the males, so we gave them to friends, and just integrated the 1 female into our flock of hens. Ever since we got rid of the males they have been picking on the female. I know it’s normal behavior...
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    EMERGENCY! Prolapsed vent?!?!

    I’m not sure what’s happening, but I just came outside to see my favorite hen like this. Please help!
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    What is the ultimate best material for a coop’s run?

    Hi everyone!! We are having trouble deciding on what material to put in the run. What materials do you guys use? Or what is the best material in your opinion? And why? Thanks!!
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    Hens are a year and a half and still haven’t molted?!

    Hi everybody! So we have 7 hens all are about a year and a half old, and they still have never molted! The breeds we have are, Pearl white leghorns, and Red stars. Is this normal?
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    Hens all picking on my pullet!

    Hi! So I hatched 2 chicks, (A cockerel, and a pullet) we raised them together, and we moved them both in with our older hens, everyone was getting along great! But we couldn’t keep the roo, so we kept him just until our pullet started laying. Well, she is laying now, so we just recently found...
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    Hens head is all balled and don’t know what to do. (Not an emergency)

    Hi y’all! So we have a hen that is getting more feathers ripped out by the day. It’s our rooster that’s mounting her, but is grabbing her comb area instead of behind the neck. We (would) separate the rooster until he matures a bit, but we are leaving for the week. And we don’t want to make...
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    When do EEs start laying?

    Hey y’all! I have an EE pullet that is now around 19 weeks old. At how many weeks do they usually start laying? And she is still tiny! I can’t ever imagine her popping out an egg at that small! But I don’t know, maybe she will surprise us!
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    Random Poultry Q&A

    Hi yall! I just decided that it would be fun if we did a kind of Q&A about poultry! If anyone has any random questions about any poultry, please post it here! I’ll try to tag people to help, and anyone can reply to your question! Thanks!
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