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    Help! Roosters around Portland?

    Hi guys, I currently live in Los Angeles, and keep two roosters that I bring inside at night. Legally i can keep just one, but only one of them crows at certain points in the day so it's not really an issue. Thing is I might be moving to the Portland area in the fall. At first I was pretty...
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    Free to good home, and rooster sitter needed in SoCal area!

    Hi guys, I'm going to be out of the country for a month and am desperately looking for a rooster sitter. One rooster I would like to keep, the other I'm looking to re-home, but until I find a home, I need to find someone to take care of them while I'm gone, as I live in Los Angeles and my...
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    ISO bantam appleyard duck hatching eggs

    Hi everyone, I am looking for bantam appleyard duck hatching eggs. The closer you are to Portland Oregon, the better. It is ok if they are shipped, though I do prefer local. Please pm me or comment if you have eggs and let me know your prices, thanks!
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    No rib cage?

    This is going to be a weird one.. but when my problem chick hatched (the one that had straddle legs, curled feet, wry neck), I thought I could see his HEART beating just barely under his paper thin skin. I thought nothing of it later as I worked on getting him fixed up with chick shoes and...
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    2 week old with scissor beak

    I have an easter egger chick that I noticed developing scissor beak in just the past few days. The thing is, the lower mandible can be gently moved back into place, and sometimes when he 'grinds' his beak it moves back into place. I imagine like fixing curled foot, the chick is still growing and...
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    Lockdown but dropping temperature?? What do I do?

    My genesis has been holding steady at 99.6 for the entire incubation, but once I added water early this morning it won't go any higher than 98.8!! What happened? Am I going to lose my eggs? :( It was warm water, but this was way earlier today. It should've warmed up for sure by now.
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    Crooked toe still - should I re-tape? :/

    So, I helped a chick out of an egg last week after 48 hours of being stuck inside his egg with no progress. As a result he had splayed legs, curled foot, wry neck, couldn't turn himself over or even sit up - as you can see, after a lot of hobbling and many chick shoes, this is how he is today...
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    Chick with a ton of problems, help!!

    So, I had a chick stuck in its shell on Day 21 (tuesday). On Day 23 (yesterday) I helped it out, and maybe I waited too long because he has a ton of problems!! He has wry neck (his head flops to the side completely as if he's still in the shell), a curled up foot that also is straddled, and at...
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    Should I help?

    So, my first pipper yesterday made very little if any progress by evening, while all the eggs around him were zipping and popping out like popcorn. This morning would've been 24 hours since pip, and now it's early afternoon. It looks like the shell is only partially zipped, but the chick is in...
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    LG Frustrations....

    I picked up a LG forced air incubator recently, and it's the third day I've been trying to regulate its temperature!!! I'm starting to really worry, i gotta put in my hatchers on Saturday. Today, I finally got the temp to hover around 99.5-99.7 - I was so happy it was staying PUT. Then once...
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    Wanted: An incubator!!

    Hi everyone, I'm looking for a second incubator, to most likely use as a hatcher. Any brinseas or hovabators out there?! Any model or size. I currently have a genesis hovabator, but I'm about to do a staggered hatch so I'm worried about humidity and all that. I don't have much a budget, but...
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    Simultaneous Hatch?! Help!

    I have some eggs that are at Day 6. Only 5 out of 24 seem viable. If I got more eggs, is it possible to simultaneously incubate them despite the different schedules? I have an auto egg turner. Where say I put in some eggs at Day 10, by Day 21 the original 5 hatch out, and then I continue with...
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    Orpington, RIR, or Easter Egger Hatching Eggs

    Hi all! I'm located in Los Angeles, CA and am looking for some hatching eggs of easter eggers, rhode island (or hampshire, brown egg laying types), or orpingtons or other friendly breeds. I'm not looking for show bird quality eggs, just some friends of mine would like to keep a few backyard...
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    Old Eggs?!

    I have 2 dozen eggs at Day 2 and a half in the incubator right now, and a bunch of them have wiggly air cells that look like they're already at Day 12 air cell size! Ugh! When I first got them the air cells for them were already shockingly huge and wiggly. I got these eggs from the local...
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    Can anyone sell me TWO pinless peepers??

    Well.. I don't think my hen will be any less aggressive to my younger hens, so I think I'm going to buy some pinless peepers to try out.. The alternative is my dad getting rid of her to one of his friends, who slaughters their chickens.. I know a chicken's a chicken, but she's more of a pet...
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    Mean hen, and strange hen behavior?!

    Since I introduced 3 new chicks I hatched in December to my two current 3 year old hens, the non-dominant hen of the two has been really bullying the three new girls. In the beginning it was full on chase them, now she's extremely aggressive during feeding time or any time there's some kind of...
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    Game Hens (roundhead, sweater) trade for silkie hens

    Hi guys, i'm looking to hopefully trade two 6 month old game hens (roundhead and sweater) for two silkie pullets or chicks. They don't need to be show quality! Just pets, rejects, whatever. I don't know much about these game hens, my friend's mom's friend breeds them (he claims they're very...
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    Will trade two gamehens (sweater, roundhead) for silkies? SoCal

    Hi guys, I didn't know where to put this.. :\\ Hope this is ok. My friend's mom's friend unexpectedly gave them two game hens (a sweater and a roundhead, that's all I know about them), and being kind (my friend could not keep them), I took them in. I have some friends who've been considering...
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    Maybe eggbound, hen still doesn't seem well :( *edit* On the mend!

    *edit*edit* I came home today and she peered out of the box at me, tail perky. I took the screening off, and she jumped up onto the edge of the box. She wobbled there for a good long time before I picked her up and took her outside. She's about 80% her old self, she wanted to get going! I say...
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    Mystery Chicks??

    I hatched these three out recently from farmers market eggs (Lily's Eggs) and am trying to identify them.. They're likely higher egg production types, rhode island crosses? From my last batch from the same people, I got a rhode island roo, barred rock roo (or something similar- black and white...
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