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    Rooster's comb and waddles quickly turning black

    I have two roosters whose combs and waddles have started turning dramatically black, just over the last few days. It's definitely not frostbite, as it's very warm here. It has been very wet though, although their coop is dry, and they free range during the day. Both are about 1 1/2 years old...
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    Cuckoo Marans Trio

    Cuckoo Marans Trio for sale. 1 rooter, 2 hens, 19 weeks old. Will lay beautiful dark reddish-brown eggs. Not laying yet, but showing signs that they are ready. Rooster is clean-legged. Choose between clean-legged hens or feather-legged hens. Located in Boone, NC. Pick-up only.
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    Shipped egg broke, yolk on remaining eggs

    I received some shipped eggs today. One was broken, and the contents had smeared over some of the remaining eggs. Should I clean them before setting? Will it contaminate my incubator if I don't? Thoughts?
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    Two week old chicks seem hungry

    My most recent hatches are 2 weeks old. They are growing well and very energetic. But yesterday I started noticing that when I feed them, they gorge themselves until their crops protrude way out of their chests. I give them plenty of food, but they go crazy when I add more to the food dish...
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    Norwegian Jaerhon sex link question

    Can anyone give me more info on the genes that make Jaerhon chicks autosexing? I love this breed, but I can't seem to find much information at all. I adopted some hens (couldn't find a roo), and crossed them with my Black Ameraucana roo, hoping to create some true blue egg laying EEs. The...
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    Weirdo Rooster?

    I hatched this BLRW last January, so he's nearly a year old. He's so strange. He has no tail, and he's very small and sort of ball shaped. He always has a sort of stink-eye expression on his face. For a comparison, here he is next to my EE roo, who is actually a fairly small rooster himself...
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    Waiting for supplemental light to do it's job

    I'm not sure why, but my chickens take off about 5-6 months every year from laying. I think it's because we live in a valley, with tall mountains on each side, reducing the amount of daylight. This year I finally got fed up, and added light. In order to get 14 hours, I had to set the timer to...
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    8 week old EE gender?

    Ok, I have another head scratcher. Solid white EEs are so hard to sex sometimes. It has some comb development, but far less than it's 2 brothers, who already have dark pink pea combs. This EE is 8 weeks. Opinions?
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    Gender of weird 18 week old BLRW

    So I've been pretty sure for a few weeks that this BLRW is a Roo, based purely on the wing color (I'm no expert), but lately I've started to wonder. It's a weird chicken for 18 weeks old. First of all, it's rumpless. Secondly, it's very small. It developed comb and wattles after the other Roos...
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    Does this chicken have a problem, or just a funky hairstyle?

    One of my EE hens has started to develop what I can only describe as a cowlick. It looks like she's styling her feathers. It gets more and more dramatic each day. Honestly, all of her feathers are looking pretty shabby in the last couple of weeks. Could it be a parasite? A molt? Should I be...
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    Trouble introducing silkie into flock

    I have a very small flock of 8 week olds birds, various breeds. They live in a separate coop and run from my full grown flock. A friend gave me a 9 week old silkie chick. The 4 other chicks have been bullying the poor silkie so much, that she just hides in the back of one of the nesting boxes...
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    Lost 10 chickens last night

    Woke up this morning to find a yard full of feathers. The latch on the coop door was broken, and 10 chickens are missing. There are no injured or dead chickens left in the yard. What kind of predator could carry off 10 chickens in one night? And the coop isn't far from the house. I don't...
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    Bullied silkie chick, how to treat?

    Today, one of my full grown hens broke through the wire on my nursery coop, and nearly pecked to death a 5 week old silkie. She basically turned the little silkie into an ugly little showgirl. She is missing all the feathers on her neck, some down her back, and there is blood matted up around...
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    WANTED: Silkie Chick

    Looking for 1 or 2 silkie chicks to replace the ones my daughter just tragically lost. I'm willing to pick up from anywhere in the western half of NC.
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    Slipped tendon?

    I posted in the injuries forum, but with no luck. I'm looking for anyone who has managed to successfully treat a chick with a slipped tendon. I'm finding lots of cases of unsuccessful treatment, and a lot of confusing information. The chick is 3 days old, and getting around really well on the...
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    Slipped tendon, splayed leg? Confused!

    This EE chick hatched 2 days ago. It was pipped for more than 48 hours, then surprisingly hatched on day 23. It has curled toes and a leg problem. I thought it was splayed leg, so I made the hobbles, and cardboard shoes for the feet. Within a few hours, the chick was up and about, hobbling all...
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    10 eggs...10 roos? Help sexing Marans

    I have 3 week old chicks, a variety of Marans. I'm seeing a lot big combs this week. A lot of them are obvious cockerels, but I think some of them are still questionable, but you tell me...did I manage to hatch 10 roosters? I hope not. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
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    New to ducks, advice on breed?

    We already have a large flock of chickens, and we'd like to start raising ducks as well. We live on a river, and have a large shallow natural pool that's fed and filtered by the river. I'm planning to house the ducks separately from my chickens. I'd like to have 3 or 4 ducks. So my question...
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    Advice for adopted flock? (UPDATE) sick birds :(

    I recently adopted 6 pullets from a local farmer who was moving. These EEs are 6 months old, and he had purchased them from the same auction where I purchased chicks earlier this summer. So these birds are from the exact same flock as my girls. But when I picked them up and put them in with my...
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    Opinion on incubator

    I'm asking for an upgrade to my old worn-out Hovabator for Christmas this year. I've narrowed down my choices to either the Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance or the R-com 20 Suro. They're basically the same price. The Brinsea has a humidity gauge, but no humidity control without the pump. The Suro...
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