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    Advice on low hatch rates.

    Would love some advice. I am a small chicken breeder in Australia. I have literally *just* began selling again this season, a bit early with it being winter however it doesn't get very cold where I live & days are still warm. Chooks are laying amazingly & fertility is good! 1 cage I am having...
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    Wyandotte rooster "which is better" question.

    Would love to know what rooster you would use for a breeding program with red splash blue hens, please. First boy (darker hackles etc) is slightly older. Boy 2 is younger & also standing at an angle - can get a better photo of him standing straight if needed! I am relatively new to the breed...
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    IM incubator reviews

    Hi all, Would love to know if anyone else here has any experience with the IM incubators. I believe this is a 72 egg. I can't find very much on google about them, but I have the opportunity to buy one & would love to know opinions.
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    Infertile rooster?

    Hi all, My favourite rooster is about 1 yr 11 months old. Since we've had him, he hasn't been in with girls (they were too young). He's been finally with his girls for about 2 months now, none of the younger girls are laying. But roughly 2 months ago I put in an older hen (1 yr old) to hatch...
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    Fun ideas for registered name!

    Hi all!! We're getting this gorgeous girl in 6 weeks. She's a tri chocolate merle border collie. Her pet name is going to be Maggie! I'm trying to think of something to be her registered name. We own a small business with "Herd" in the title, so I'm trying to word play that into it. Some...
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    Broken shell, baby still moving.

    Hi all, I had 2 muscovy hens go broody together & sit on 17 eggs. Long story short, their cage got damaged & during the repairs they both abandoned the nest. Eggs were roughly 26-28 days when abandoned. I left all the eggs in the nest for 2-3 days, hoping they'd return. They didn't. During those...
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    Spotting which pullets are full breed speckled sussex

    Hi all, to start with our roo that fathered these guys is the speckled sussex. The hens hatched from at the time were a speckled sussex, a light sussex & a gold laced wyandotte. This is my grow out cage so there are other breeds in here, but I'm only talking about the speckly chooks. They are...
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    Olive egger acting exhausted?

    Any help for this one please? She just started laying beautiful olive eggs about 4 days ago. One of my other pullets (has since passed) in the same cage went paralysed yesterday, 2 hrs prior was fine, running around. What is happening? I've put vitamins in her water, given her a massage to...
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    Need advice on feeds

    Hi, To start with I'm Australian, so a lot of the brands I see recommended on here we don't have access too. The main brands I can get local to me are Barastoc, Laucke Mills & another brand I won't use - we've lost countless birds due to insufficient vitamins with their feeds. HOWEVER we breed...
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    Swollen wattles

    Hi all, Any advice here? Her wattles are swollen, hot to touch. This has popped up overnight. I've looked at fowl cholera, but her symptoms don't match. She is acting totally herself, I only noticed as I give my chickens head rubs when they're in the nesting boxes. Would it be worth giving her...
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    Definitely fowl pox??

    So far this is our 2nd chicken that's showing symptoms, however this one's lesion is a bit odd to me? What do you all think? None have any lesions in the mouth thus far. I've been doing tonnes of reading but any advice is also appreciated. This summer has been ruthless with illnesses unfortunately.
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    Suspected coccidiosis

    So I have inside brooder chicks that have been fine & well up until yesterday. They are almost 6 weeks old, kept inside still as its extremely hot here to move them out yet. I had 2 chicks pass, that I personally didn't even notice a change in before passing. It wasn't until a 3rd chick got...
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    Gender help?

    Alright, I have not needed sexing help on a chicken for a hot while! But this one is weird to me. 20 weeks old, unsure exactly breeds but presumed to be an australorp x speckled sussex (or RIR). Seems pullet like in every other aspect, comb & wattles seem pullet. Leg size, pullet. MOST...
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    How to tell if muscovies are mixed?

    We have a flock of muscovies. We just got given 2 free ducklings yesterday but we're on the fence about them being full? We were told they are about 8-10 weeks, which if they're full muscovies can't be true with size & feathering. I'd put them at 4-6 weeks. We aren't too fussed either way but...
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    Speckled sussex Australia

    Can anyone in Australia help identify what exactly speckled sussex look like as day olds? We should definitely have some in this batch. Along with gold laced x speckled sussex. And light sussex x speckled sussex. But it really appears to me that potentially American & Australian speckled look...
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    Finally got our dream coop!

    We do actually have about 6 cages (including this one!) But most were cheap ebay finds, 1 was already on the property (whilst extremely sturdy it doesn't leave a lot to the imagination), 1 is an old shed with meshed sides, and 1 was our first attempt at a coop build (we learnt a lot but mostly...
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    Scaly leg mites

    This is definitely scaly leg mites isn't it? My beautiful new blue splash wyandotte rooster came with this, he's in quarantine still, but I have NEVER actually dealt with scaly leg mites yet. Our plan is to scrub any excess skin off & apply some mite treatment & Vaseline? Is that right? That's...
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    Questions about splash Wyandottes

    Hi all, currently in the beginning stages of getting into this breed. The hens I will have will be splash laced red wyandotte & then some will be blue laced red wyandottes that have a splash laced red roo. What roo would I pair with these girls? Lacing genetics still goes a little bit over my...
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    QLD Australia pricing

    Hi! I have a couple questions regarding the breeds I'm currently getting into. Firstly I'd love an idea of what people sell these for in QLD Australia. At the ages of - fresh hatch, off heat, pullets & then laying age. We have - Blue/Red Splash Laced Wyandottes Speckled Sussex Olive eggers...
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    Perosis in 13 week old chicken?

    Hi all, I don't have a photo on hand, I can get one in the morning. But essentially one of my 13 week olds got trampled today by the others. I thought everything was fine until I saw it's right leg bend out. It's hip now turns to the right & the leg does not stand straight. From the research...
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