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    Duck that lays green or blue eggs

    oh lol thats good man!
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    Silkey Sexing, Help me!

    Anyone know what gender this is? It is one http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=805822018 it is third photo
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    Hoping all hens :( but 1 in question...

    i mean the first to be a male because of how the tale is starting to come out, i had a black araucana the same
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    Hoping all hens :( but 1 in question...

    1at one is a male, last may be also
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    Ladies or Gents

    agreed, sorry, same thing happened to me! first hatch was 5 roos and one female. trust me next time you will know it grows on ya
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    girl or boy?

    agreed
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    sexing rhode island reds

    hi got some new Rhode islands hatch! what are some tips or tricks for sexing this breed?
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    all the things that have gone wrong with my hatch so far

    wow, yea maybe i should just buy me a silkie to brood all future chickens from now on, are they sensitive to chicks? cuz some hard brooders just stare at an egg outside of the nest while others immediately retrieve them. will post pics of chicks soon
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    all the things that have gone wrong with my hatch so far

    My first timer araucana hen was sitting in 8 Rhode island red chick eggs. so far she crushed one at 10 days and now we have 7. so far 3 hatched and one was nearly killed by other hen. 5th one hatched today, after i had to care for it my self, as the mother crushed that one too, so the sack...
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    Chick attacked! big cut with scull exposed! help!

    wow this helps heaps, yea, if you pull it down slightly then it will expose the neck tendons, thats where im worried. covered with normal round plaster so is covering area though not exposing it to others, and allowing air to come through, using iodine liquid antiseptic watered down, hope it...
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    Chick attacked! big cut with scull exposed! help!

    hi thanks!
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    Chick attacked! big cut with scull exposed! help!

    thankyou!! how does it work?
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    Chick attacked! big cut with scull exposed! help!

    will the skin ever come back together over the scull?
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    Chick attacked! big cut with scull exposed! help!

    hi, thanks, the wound is massive on back of head and has exposed the skull, about 1 cm of it. so will a solution applyed only hurt the chick more?
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    Help Sexing RIR's?

    defiantly the top is a rooster, and austraulorps are wonderful hens. the one you think is a hen is defiantly a hen, i had alot of trouble sexing my rirs, but then they were ALL roosters so now i know... haha
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    Chick attacked! big cut with scull exposed! help!

    hi marie, its a pritty big cut, its open and moist, on the neck and head, i dont have a brooder and its with its mother, i could try clean it, but would i hurt it? wont liquid plasters tear the skin off? ... and what are liquid plasters? thankyou heaps!!
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    Roosters eye swollen shut please help!

    my mouse lost an eye and it looked Just like that, probably try actually opening it? if it dosent then it might have come out, it happens when they poke their eye or it got fight with other rooster. give it a few more days, might be infected, it sure wint be able to mate properly if the only...
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    Chick attacked! big cut with scull exposed! help!

    Rhode island chicks were hatching this morning, i took one chick out to try determine the gender, and then my 12 week old orpington comes up to me and looks interested in the chick, so i lower it a little so it can see, BIG MISTAKE!! it grabbed the chick by the head and hauled it to the ground...
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    lack of chicken breeds in newzealand

    Nz, the maransand olive egger pritty rare here, or there not here at all. Sigh
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    Newbie From New Zealand

    I would recommend some Rhode island hens for you, hardy chooks and can also be eaten. Lay big size 7 to 8 eggs, 250 to 320 a year. I would not get chickens until you have done lots of research on them, like on all the desieses and free range lots, also mites and cures. Research really helped...
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