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    What age is a good age for processing excess heritage cockerels?

    i hatched out some of my own backyard eggs for fun and after brooder attrition (i delayed putting them outside due to fear of weather issues so they got crowded), ended up with 7 pullets and 5 cockerels. They hatched out 10/22. Since i cannot have roosters and if i were to break the rules i’d...
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    Posting for a friend and his chicken….

    got a question about this chicken. its either an olive egger or easter egger. I raised it in a brooder for a friend of mine since i already had babies in by brooder at the time and he had no idea how to brood chicks. It was purchased as a sexed female but a couple months ago he heard crowing and...
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    Electric fencing??

    we are going to be re-doing our coop in the spring and converting a shed to a double decker coop while keeping one of the current two smaller pre-fab coops because the girls seem to prefer laying in those nest boxes and its easy to confine them if we need to separate the some for one reason or...
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    I think these look like CCL pullets, please tell me I’m right

    i waited a little longer to post because i wanted them a little more mature and a little more adult feathered. These two (hopefully) ladies hatched out of blue eggs that i produced myself. Father was pure bred CCL and i’m thinking mother(s) are pure CCL because as far as i know, I had 2 pure...
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    “What the eff is this white stuff on the ground and what are you going to do about it?” Said my hens

    we got our first big snow of the year yesterday and of course, i was wholly unprepared because i’m not native to the great white north. where i grew up (so cal), we drove a couple hours to play in the snow, it did not come to us. Somehow, after 10 years of being here, i still get caught...
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    Please tell me these are cream legbars and i’m right about sex

    these chicks hatched out of blue eggs from my mixed hen flock which contained at the time 2 CCL hens and a CCl roo. Since these were lain and hatched, one of the hens and the roo have died. Separate causes and not infectious. Predator and smothering. I am hoping that i have at least 2 pullets...
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    How high can chickens jump?

    i’m thinking of re-vamping our chicken yard. Basic set up is an interior 4 ft fence (poultry wire) with a 6 ft solid wooden fence surround and a 2 ft walkway around the inner yard. The ladies have been regularly jumping the inner fence and exploring the space between the 2 fences. If we get rid...
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    Whelp…. Winter is coming but i hatched eggs anyway.

    so i hatched eggs that were given to me because i wanted white egg layers to round out my multicolored basket and i threw in a few of my eggs since i had room in the incubator. My roo: pure bred crested cream legbar. My hens: olive eggers, BYM, pure bred CCl, Easter eggers. I know there are...
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    Those damn trash pandas

    The last week we have had a problem with raccoons getting to the chickens. We are planning on putting a roof on the chicken yard and replacing the fencing with hardware cloth to protect the ladies better. We so far have lost a cockerel (good boy clearly defending his flock poor guy) and a cream...
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    Anyone in Caledonia or Racine Wisconsin that will help me petition for ducks?

    I’m trying to petition my village (Caledonia, WI) to allow keeping of ducks. Chickens are relatively new within the last few years and I’d like to add ducks to that list. I have no idea how to go about this and if anyone on this board is local to me, would you be willing to help me? I know I...
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    How do i go about changing/petitioning for village ordinance to allow ducks?

    Im a little heart broken right now and also I’m sleep deprived and traveling so i hope i make sense. sorry in advance for the long read, i promise there is a genuine question and need buried somewhere in this….. 6 months ago, in a moment of weakness, I got 5 ducklings at TSC. I already planned...
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    4 and a half month old laying eggs??!!

    I have female (sexed at hatch and purchased from Metzer farms) ducks that are 4.5 months old and another set that’s about a month younger. I also have a Pekin drake who was raised among chickens as a lone duck after his brood mates all died about 2 days after I got them (unsexed). I am confident...
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    Incubating double yolk?

    Im going to be setting some eggs shortly but a couple are oblong and may or may not be double yolks due to being new hens, etc… but one is GIANT (like the size of a duck egg) and most def double if i had to predict, although i cannot find my candler ATM. Does anyone have exeperience incubating...
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    Timing of incubation and should dirty eggs be washed?

    sooo. Despite me saying “I’m at capacity” and being done with brooding, i was offered 10 fertilized eggs and although i tried to say no, my BF (enabler that he is) was there and was no help, said i would do it anyway so i may as well and refused to help me out and just say no…problem is that i...
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    Winter is coming

    as this is my first year of chicken keeping and i live in Wisconsin, i have been thinking about how to keep my ladies and gentleman comfortable, warm and safe. I have no electricity to the coop at this point and my bf is opposed to running conduit to the back of our property (1/3 acre) to make...
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    First time layer questions from a first time pullet mom

    Since i started my flock with younger hens, they were all pretty much laying when i got them, it just took them a bit to adjust to the move. My first group of pullets is now coming of age and consists of 2 back yard mixes hatched from a friend’s eggs and 2 cream legbars hatched from a local...
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    What breed (and color) is this??

    Now i am thoroughly confused. i hatched out this chick from one of 21 eggs which were either ancona, blue swedish and saxony. It looks nothing like the others and was the only one of its kind even as a duckling. The bill is a pretty grey.slate blue and while most of the body is white, there are...
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    Sexing help (saxony and blue swedish)

    I need help sexing my 8 week old ducklings. 2 are saxony, one is (i think) blue swedish. Coloring on that one changed overnight at about 4 weeks of age and it looks nothing like the saxony’s or ancona it hatched alongside. The bill color is more of a slate blue/grey and the colored feathers are...
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    Teaching ‘teen-aged’ ducks to coop up

    My flock consists of 7 various breed young female ducks that are about 5 months old, a drake that is about 6 months old and 4 twelve-week-old unknown sex ducks of various breeds. The drake is the lone survivor of a house fire and was raised with chickens until the 7 oldest females were old...
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    Are these olive eggers?? And please tell me they are pullets.

    I have 2 birds i can’t identify but after a process of elimination, i think they are olive eggers. Does this make sense? I am supposed to have only 2 crested cream legbar pullets, but these looked to me like they might be CCL’s, which would mean i have 4, but then i remembered that i picked up 2...
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