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    Splay leg, day old chick

    Tried to make my first hobble! Chick had quite splayed legs although not as bad as some of the images I've seen... does this hobble look ok! Or too close together. Chick is mad and very angrily trying to peck the plaster off... what else can I do?
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    Eglu with heat lamp as a brooder?

    I have a question, has anyone put a heat plate (We have the yellow mama hen one) into an eglu house? I'm hoping to move my chicks from this hatch outside sooner this time round, and set up an outdoor brooder for them. My idea is to put the eglu on our patio with slabs under and slabs on the...
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    Companihen hatches again

    So I currently have my 3 copper marans and my old arucana bantam hen from my original birds. Last year. Incubated 18 eggs which I had bought online, they were silkie, frizzle, polish mixes. 14 hatched, 2 chicks died the next day. At 5 weeks old we lost 5 to a fox 😢 of the 7 remaining I gave 3...
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    18wk old silkie chick, went wobbly now cant walk

    I had been wating this chick for a few days as it seemed a but off. Standing hunched up and not as active as usual. We think it's a pullet but we're not sure. After a few days I saw some poowith blood in and also the chick seemed very slightly wobbly first thing, almost just a bit stiff. 9...
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    Bad outbreak of red mite in chicks coops

    So gutted. I have 2 coops with chicks in... 11 week olds. I have suspected mites a few weeks ago so have been using DE when cleaning out coops and spraying with tea tree oil / smite spray twice a week. Tonight I was out until late and when I got home to secure the coops I shone my torch round...
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    Silkie gender advice... 11 weeks old

    Would love your views... I only have this 1 silkie chick left from my hatch as the 3 other silkies got eaten by fox so I have no silkies to compare this too.... I have other chicks from this hatch though, 2 polish cockerels, 1 Mille fleur cockerel and 1 polish hen, 1 Mille fleur hen and a black...
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    So who do i have... cockerels or pullets?!

    So my 5 week old chicks are beginning to give vibes of who they will become.... they are a very mixed set of chicks - silkies, polish, bearded and various other bantams. I have 12 in total! Anyone fancy a guess on these? They're not the easiest to photograph so I'll update the head as I go...
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    Nasty bloody poop on my patio this morning

    I'm pretty sure this was one of my crested cream legbars and she had been by my back door a lot and later I noticed this..... she's 2.5 years old and laying still. Help pls... how can I help her? The 2nd image of the watery poop was from one of my copper marans, they do this a bit... should I...
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    Copper maran losing feathers

    Does anyone know why my copper maran hen looks like this? She is approximately 3 years old. She is not at the bottom of the pecking order. I have 3 copper marans about 3yo, 2 cream legbars coming up 2 yo and a lavender aracuna bantam who is 5yo... she is the top of the pecking order although...
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    Copper maran losing feathers

    Does anyone know why my copper maran hen looks like this? She is approximately 3 years old. She is not at the bottom of the pecking order. I have 3 copper marans about 3yo, 2 cream legbars coming up 2 yo and a lavender aracuna bantam who is 5yo... she is the top of the pecking order although...
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    Sick chick

    I have a little fluffy bantam chick... hatched yesterday and has been doing fine. Until about an hour ago I kept noticing it falling over on its back and laying like that and the other chicks would come and peck and it would hardly move. Would eventually right itself but gradually put its head...
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    Eggs in incubator day 19

    So its day 19 for my 18 eggs in incubator. They are a mix of bantams, silkies, frizzles and polish. Exciting and stressful. One egg has pipped this morning which seems pretty early to me. It's cheeping now out of its tiny little hole. I hope it will keep doing well 🙏 humidity is 75 ish and...
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    My first post

    Hello all... just registered and excited to be here. I have 6 hens atm, 3 black copper marans 2 and half yos, 2 cream legbars 18mo and 1 lavender araucana bantam... she is maybe 4 yos. All very good layers and happy hens. Apart from my bantam, she's very feisty 🤣 and I also have also just...
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