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    Thoughts on cockerel management?

    I have fifteen large teen chickens, five cockerels and ten pullets. Out of these cocks, I know I must be rid of four. Two of them I know I don't want to keep- and the reason is my fault. I petted and held them and now that hormones are raging, they think they can bite onto my hand like they do...
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    Breed of white and black chickens?

    I have these white chicks with black splotches, and I don't know what breed they are. Some are half cochin bantam, resulting in feathery feet, but I'm hoping their coloring can give clues as to their other parent. However, this is unreliable because siblings of theirs who took after the cochin's...
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    Age and breed guesses?

    I bought my new chook Ruthie at auction, so there was no information on her. I immediately wondered if she is a lavender orpington, just by the color alone, but that is not much. She's shy and a bit nervous around me, but I understand that. It's rough being shut up in a cardboard box, roughly...
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    Baby born with swollen belly 🥺

    This is a bantam black cochin. She was malpositioned to the opposite side of the egg and somewhat else; she couldn't zip and instead made a hole big enough for her head to flop out before I assisted and she pushed herself out. Now she's flopping around in the incubator with an enlargened...
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    Near tragedy averted? 😔

    So, most of my clutch of eggs from this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/rescue-incubating-half-abandoned-or-repeatedly-abandoned-eggs.1664259/#post-28622818 hatched all right, but I noticed that three of them were malpositioned. One was backwards, pipped away from the air cell, but...
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    Questionable breed, questionable gender

    Hi lovely people, this is Gertrude, born the first of May. I think she's a barred rock, but if so she's probably only half such. Anyone want to take a guess? I'm going to say pullet for now, but the larger comb and personality has me suspicious. (Since birth she's consistently been really...
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    Rescue incubating? Half-abandoned or repeatedly-abandoned eggs

    My friend's bantam frizzle was half-broody. She laid a clutch of 14-15 eggs in a feed sack and would sit on them at night, but in the daytime she'd run around in the yard. Occasionally she'd sit on them for a few minutes, but would get up again and abandon them for awhile. It could be because...
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    Candling An Egg On The Wrong End?

    So, today is Day 7 for my clutch of eggs. (I'M SO EXCITED) I candled them accordingly, small-end-down on my built-in incubator candler. My two light-brown, speckled eggs were easy to see through and I could see the little moving, living, veiny bean inside. I'm not certain what breed the mother...
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    DIY Bator Build: The Snap Circuit Special

    Hi! Awhile back I asked the more experienced folks about DIY incubators. It did not seem feasible to make one at the time, so I bought a MatixoopX off of Amazon and it's currently Day 2 for those ones. I didn't want all of my fish in one pond in case anything happened to a very sketchy DIY...
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    Dirty eggs?

    Hi! I've just gotten my greedy hands on thirteen big-chicken eggs and seven banty eggs. The bantys are pretty clean, but I'm worried about the thirteen. Most of them have some sort of grime or dried muck on them. I've read that dirty eggs should be avoided for hatching, and eggs should never...
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    Homemade Incubators?

    I'm wondering if anyone has any resources, articles, or personal experience with making and using a DIY incubator yourself, because it's something I'm considering. I can get hatching eggs, but not chicks for a few months, and I'm impatient. :jumpy
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    I'm a new peep!

    Hi everyone! I'm Rina, new into poultry and learning a lot. I'm hoping to get chicks tomorrow from a friend, but the humidity in her incubator was off, resulting in delayed hatching and less chicks. There probably won't be enough for me to bring home 7-10 as I had hoped... I'll either delay...
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