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    I have a chick that cant walk

    Hi, I have 2 day old chick that hasn't learnt to walk yet, I think it had a bit of a splayed leg so put a hobble on it and it doesn't make a difference. Its hard to describe how it moves, it basically puts all its weight on its haunches and kind of waddles, using its wings like front legs?
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    Can anyone help improve my hatch rate?

    Just looking for some advice with my hatch rate. Fertility is fine but hatching seems to be the problem. Ive used my own, local and ebay eggs so far this year and had problems with most of them. So heres a quick breakdown of my hatches so far. I do dry hatch except for the duck eggs where I put...
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    Bad Bumblefoot!

    My cockerel has developed a bad case of bumblefoot, the black scab covers nearly the whole of the pad of his foot on one leg and a bit smaller on the other foot. I read that once a black scab develops the best thing to do it cut it out, get rid of pus and bandage it. Can this really be done at...
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    Runner duck has little balance?!

    We just bought a trio of runner ducks yesterday from an auction. We got them home only to find this morning that one of the females has a problem with her balance. She stands up but her tail swings back and forth and she struggles to stand still and when she is rushed she simply falls over and...
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    HELP please! Choking chick!!

    My 4 week old chick as suddenly started choking on something and looks as though its about to give up in life any minute now!! It is gaping and closing its eyes. Every now and again it does a gagging motion and shakes itself back and forth and jumps around. Ive tried gently massaging its neck...
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    Need to guess the gender!

    Ive got some bantam cochins and a dutch bantam that I am taking to auction soon so I need to guess their gender within the next 2 weeks or less so I can enter them. There is one cochin that is 11 weeks old and I thought he was a cockerel but theres no signs apart from his red wattles. The rest...
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    Shaky Chick

    I have a 5-6 week old sablepoot which shakes all the time. Today she has just developed a limp for no apparent reason and tends to lie down a lot. She is very tame and when I hold her with my hand over her back she stops shaking but starts as soon as I take it off. Is this a nervous disposition...
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    Any high energy foods for chicks?

    I have one chick about 3 weeks old which, for some reason, is fading away. He was once the most curious and energetic chick but is now very thin and weak. I bought these chicks off someone who I will now never buy from again. Of the 10 chicks I bought, I only have 3 left after 2 weeks. Is there...
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    What breed are these?

    For some reason my laptop wont upload the photos, so ill have to try and describe them to you until I can get photos! Chick 1 has a dark brownish/grey body and a yellow golden head, feathered feet and gold and black feathers coming in on its wings. Single comb and is a different body shape to...
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    What breed are my chicks?

    I bought these off a man today that buys in pure bred eggs, hatches them and sells on the chicks so they could be anything! No. 1- Single comb, feathered legs No.2- Single comb, clean legs. Slightly darker stripes down its back No.3- Single comb, feathered legs I don't know if...
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    Emergency: chick gone downhill very fast!

    I have a quail chick that hatched yesterday and looked very healthy, but has suddenly gone downhill in the last 2 hours. I noticed it was making quite a lot of sudden noises and it soon became lethargic and sleepy. I tried picking it up and giving it some sugar water and I think it managed to...
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    Pekin colours

    Hi does anyone have some sort of chart or just information of the different colours of pekins you can cross to produce pure colours. Such as blue x black(or splash) or black x chocolate? Reason is I've just bought a random selection of pekin eggs and im hoping there are some I can cross to get...
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    Winter time chicks

    I was hoping to buy some eggs for the incubator this week, hopefully some pekins/bantam cochins and dutch. I realise chicks in the winter will have to stay under the heat much longer but how long is that? The winter in scotland is very unpredictable so it could stay be as low as -10 degrees C in...
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    Frizzle gender

    My frizzle (bantam cochin) is now 5 months old and not crowing but ive seen it do that dance that cockerels do to attract hens once. Does anyone have pictures of frizzle cockerels at the same age? Plus its supposed to be black mottled but doesnt have much white, will this come in later?
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    Bad head injury

    One of my 13 week old suspected pullets has been attacked by a cockerel (posted in the behaviour section). Basically the back of her skull is exposed and I wont be able to get a vet for another week. S/hes eating and drinking but shakes and sleeps most of the time. Ive put some teramycin...
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    Aggressive cockerel

    I have a cockerel and 3 (suspected) hens that i raised that are now 13 weeks old. This cockerel has been top of the pecking order from day 1 and he only seems to have become worse as he gets older. He started trying to crow at 5 weeks old and he constantly picks a fight with the other hens or...
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    Bantam Cochins/pekins-all cockerels?

    A bit scared they might be! They are 11 weeks old.
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    Duck with drooping wings & can't walk

    The duck is a bali runner and i noticed she stopped laying about a week ago. She was fine untill yesterday when i noticed she was lying down when i was feeding them. She would try and get up and walk but would lean to one side and both her wings would droop down. I immediatly isolated her and...
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    Mixed bantams-gender please(lots of photos)

    They are all 6 weeks old, they are probably too young for any definate descisions but i would like to hear any guesses The gold dutch (2 have darker neck feathers and one has lighter-i wonder if they could be feather sexed at this age?) 1) 2) 3) The pekins- called bantam cochins in the US...
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    Help-duckling deteriorating fast!

    Its a day old, i've tried giving it sugar water but it won't swallow and i don't want to drown it. It was fine a few hours ago, completely normal, now it lies with it's head flopped on its side and hardly moves. It sometimes lifts its head or moves around a little but when it's awake it cheaps...
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