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    Blue Cochin...what is it?!? I can’t tell!

    Do I have a pullet or a cockerel?
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    Sexing Opal Legbars

    The same as sexing cream legbars? I have 2 hatching in the bator. I want to know how to sex them as soon as they fluff up! Cream legbars= males have a light head spot and females have darker stripes. Is it the same with the opals? TIA
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    partidge silkie roo & polish pal need a home

    I have 2 roosters who need homes. They are best pals--1 partridge silkie rooster and 1 white crested black polish. Both are 7-8 months old. I have had excellent fertility from both. They are best friends, so they should stay together. When I put them to bed every night I always find the...
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    I love my roosters! But..

    Last March I bought 6 chicks from mypetchicken.com, who quickly expanded into 10. I bought an eglu cube and I've been very pleased with it, as well. My husband and I have to move to Northern California for his job, and I'm trying to find the best way to rehome my roosters. I have a very...
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    mypetchicken.com's DIAPERS or CHICKEN PANTIES?

    Does anyone have experience with mypetchicken.com's chicken diapers or poultry panties? They are really similar, and I don't know which model to pick. I bought their chicken diaper a few years ago and it was a bit too small for my RIR, so I had to modify it. But I was pretty pleased...
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    Administering Baytril AND a wormer?

    I have a 6 month old Dominique with a limp. After I took her to the vet, she said she was developing bumblefoot and gave her an antibiotic injection along with an Rx for baytril mixed with the water. However, Freckles is underweight (4lbs, 3oz), so I suspect worms. How can I safely worm her...
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    Local hatching eggs on Central Coast-California

    I'm looking for hatching eggs on the California Central Coast. I'm located in Creston, Ca. and I'm willing to drive to pick them up. I would rather get local eggs to ensure freshness and avoid shipping costs, and my bator only holds 7 eggs. I'm not too picky about breed . . . Or species. I'd...
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    moving to Creston, Ca. -- need predator proofing ideas

    I've always had backyard chickens in a house with a fenced backyard. However, I'm moving to a rural 15-acre spot in Creston, California and I'm sure there are bobcats, cougars, and other big creepy crawlies out there. I have an eglu CUBE with an extended, dig-proof run and I've never had any...
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    button quail deaths--swollen feet. help!

    I had a female button die last week. The tips of her toes were pretty swollen, but I wasn't sure what the cause was. Now her cage mate has come down with the same symptoms, but worse. It's like he has elephantiatis (sp?) of the feet. They're HUGELY swollen, all the way up his legs. I keep...
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    Ringneck genetics--offspring color?

    I know dove genetics is supposed to be quite difficult to figure out, but does anyone know what color possibilities there are in offspring if I cross a wild type with a tangerine? Is the tangerine color dominant or recessive? I also hear it's possible to get unexpected colors, like white, but...
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    two dove dads?

    So, I recently bought two ringneck ladies for my two lonely bachelors. A few days after I added the girls to the aviary, one of them laid two eggs in a makeshift nest I created by stringing up a fleece baby blanket like a hammock. It's really strange because all four doves have claimed...
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    ringneck courtship?

    So, I purchased a pair of ringneck doves in late January, and we named them Gloria and Estefan. Well, Gloria turned out to be male, so now we have Esteban and Estefan. They've been driving us crazy with their non-stop cooing (beginning at 5 am!). So, I found two gorgeous lady doves and...
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    quail coloring--is this a female?

    I checked the coloring on thequaillady's coloring page...but this one didn't completely match. She kind of looks like the red breasted female, except she isn't red at all. Does anyone know what color she is, and is she indeed a she? I just got 4, and I have: a normal blue breasted male, a...
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    Button Quail Monogamy Question (Urgent!)

    I purchased a trio (2 females, 1 male) of button quail at a bird show today. The breeder told me the trio would be better than a pair because a lone female in a pair would end up a bit...bald. However, I'm reading on here that they need to be in pairs because they're monogamous. Should I run...
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    fertilizer = snack?

    Ok, hopefully this hasn't been posted on here before! My chicken's favorite snack is those white foam things in potting soil. They're all over my garden! Every time I let her out, they're the first thing she goes for. Is this toxic? What is the purpose of those things anyway, are they...
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    chick with broken/sprained leg?

    I have a 10-day-old cochin chick who is favoring her right leg. She hops around the brooder on her left leg and doesn't seem to like putting any weight on the right foot. I'm not sure if it's broken because when she lies down she scratches herself with the right foot, and she's always...
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    Picky eaters any ideas????

    So, I took some of the advice on the forums and fed my day-old chicks some crumbled egg yolk. Now, it's all they'll eat! They completely ignore their chick starter (to the point of those starved clear poos), so I've had to mash the feed in with more scrambled eggs just to make sure they're...
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    picture ID: Dominique or Silver Cuckoo Marans?

    I'm really new to the forum so I posted this in chicken pictures and stories first, but it was suggested I move it here. Oops! Today I got a box in the mail with six different chicks, including a Silver Cuckoo Marans and a Dominique. Can anyone tell me which one is which? I can't name them...
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    picture ID: who's who? please help!

    Today I got a box in the mail with six different chicks, including a silver cuckoo marans and a dominique. Can anyone tell me which one is which? I can't name them until I know who's who!
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    sluggish little faverolle chick

    I got my first order of chicks today! 5 of the 6 are all running around like mad except for my little salmon faverolle girl. She will drink but not eat, she teeters around (kinda like a drunken stumble) and she keeps falling asleep. Also, she's not pasted up. Any ideas? She's already my...
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