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    Olive Egger - pullet or cockerel?

    He’s 16 weeks old. No roo behavior, a tiny single comb and no spurs, but man, those tail feathers and coloring sure look male. Thoughts?? DF60424A-B5D8-47E2-9D0B-CCDC8FB5693E by HollywoodHillsHens posted Oct 25, 2017 at 9:20 AM9E84C7A5-BFEE-4BDA-8BCD-37689710EF38 by HollywoodHillsHens posted...
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    No Fried Chickens! Exhaust Fans, deep marine batteries and solar help

    I'm finishing an 8 x 12' lean-to style prefab wood shed that I have been modding into a chicken coop, but I need to actively ventilate it because I found out it gets HOT. I've got a large (30x30")solar panel and a deep cell marine battery already installed for the poultry door (overkill I know)...
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    Only Lethargic 5-week-old in the Brooder?! HELP PLEASE

    Got up this morning to find one of our 5-week-old chicks lying down lethargic and breathing rapidly on the straw brooder floor. All of the other babies were fine and active. The waterer had tipped overnight and I refilled it - the other babies went to drink, but the patient did not. The patient...
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    Bloody poop from 2 week old Incubated chick

    Everyone is behaving fine, lively and eating / drinking - but still this worries me a lot. Chicks are indoors / sequestered and have had a little contact with bedding from my 2 month olds but nobody so far has been ill. should I give them medicated feed? Any other ideas? Will it run its course?
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    Weird Fifth baby toe?

    This is from a "barnyard mix" of eggs - mostly exotics. Doesn't look like a faverolles to me, but what's up with this weird fifth mini toe???
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    3 days late but still alive - what to do / expect???

    Hello - I have a clutch of 8 eggs incubating in a Brinsea that are three days past their due date. There was a power outage a while back and the eggs cooled off in the second week for about a day, but the embryos survived and I expected they'd be late - but not THIS late! I candled the eggs...
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    Stumped by Combs! Insights?

    Hey gang, I'm a novice at raising chickens, and have been "playing along at home" to try to get better at sexing the photos on BYC. But I'm consistently stumped by the combs!! Some of the "roos" seem to have such teeny tiny combs at even 12 weeks of age that I'm shocked! Can someone help me...
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    Cockerels or Pullets? Too Early? 2 Olive Eggers @ 4.5 Weeks

    Can you suss out the gender of these two olive egger chickens? Hatched them in-house. Any explanations would also be awesome - thanks!! This is "Thing 1" And here's the sibling, "Thing 2" (the blue one - we already know the 5 week old white one is 90% a pullet ) Long shot of Thing 2:
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    Black Copper Marans - Cockerels, or just Pullets with Large Combs?

    These are two BCMs that come from a line of "Floridian" chickens, where some of the hens sport larger combs than normal (I have seen one of these "mamas" when I went to pick up the babies). So what do you think? Are these possible candidates for the "big hair hen club," or simply roos in plain...
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    Calling all Creative Geeks!! Automating THIS coop door?

    I thought I was a big enough geek to figure this one out, but it's time to call in for help from the REAL experts on the message board!!!! Engineering types, how do you recommend automating one of these outward-swinging doors on the side of my newly-built midcentury modern chicken coop?? Both...
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    More Roosting Bar Space = More Chickens? (Just Sleeping & Nesting)

    We have plans to expand our flock of 4 Large Fowl to ~10 or 12, so I just built a Mid-Century Modern "post and beam" coop out of an IKEA bunk bed and storage unit (a modificaiton of THIS: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2009/06/ikea-home-for-chicks.html ). Now that it's done, I'm in a slight panic...
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    How different can hatch dates be???

    Had six eggs in lockdown (candled with chicks inside), now on Day 22. Only one chick hatched so far, and it pipped / hatched overnight Day 20 / 21. It hung out in the bator for ~6 hours to dry and "instigate" the others. As for the rest, no peeps, no pips, no egg vibrating, etc. ?? Can I...
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    Marek's Vaccine = BACKORDER! Where to buy?

    I ordered a Marek's disease vaccine ~1.5 months ago, and the backorder date kept getting pushed out.... So I've been calling around, and NOBODY seems to have this! (Jeffers, Randall Burkey, EZ Pet Supply...) AND I HAVE A BATCH OF EGGS IN THE BATOR! Anyone know where I can buy a "stash" of...
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    Delayed hatch expected: Managing Turning & Humidity?

    Hey gang, Currently on day 15 of our first chick hatch! Incubating 18 eggs: 6 in a Brinsea Eco and 12 in an LG with auto-turner. We are dry(ish) incubating (30-40% humidity) though one day only it dipped as low as 20%. I know it's important to stop turning eggs at the start of Day 19 of a...
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    Weird Poop from Lethargic Cochin...(Warning: Descriptive w/ Photo!)

    Hey guys, I've been poring over the "poop page" for a while, but can't find anything that mirrors this from my girl "Blanche" - she was off her food (in a crate, but she did drink water with sulfa antibacs) for a day or two. Her feathers are slightly droopy, but she can walk. After I carried...
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    Dry Hatch in Southern California - TOO dry? What's OPTIMAL humidity?

    Hi there! This is my first incubation experiment outside of a childhood home hatch, in homemade bator, in Ohio in the 1980s (100% hatch!) I'd love to do dry incubation, but I live in Southern California (Los Angeles) and am concerned that our ambient humidity is too low already??? Running 2...
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    Help! 6 mo Australorp will eat but can't stand, has mustard poo...

    I'm out of town, and just got an alarming email from my husband about our 6-month old Australorp Dorothy, who has been healthy and laying dependably but was sitting around outside much of the day since yesterday: "She is pretty sick. She can’t seem to walk. Her poo is slimy mustard. I set her...
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    Can you make a chicken go broody??

    Hey folks, I have a couple of 7 month old Cochins and Australorps, and getting some hatching eggs later this month. Have ordered an incubator, but would love to go "au naturale" with some other eggs if I can get one of my girls to go broody. Everyone's laying regularly but nobody seems to be...
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    Goliath Egg

    I'm thinking one of the Australorps laid this one... Eggzilla's sheer size and volume is more apparent here:
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    Chicken Eating Foam Retaining Wall Liner?

    Unfortunately our grass and sod level dropped over the winter rains, exposing about an inch of pale blue foam on the inside of our retaining wall. I just discovered that our white cochin, Blanche, has been enjoying it and pecking away at (read: ingesting) the foam for about 10 feet!! I tried to...
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