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    Two week old boys

    Sorry, I completely forgot! They were indeed all boys, in the end. But happily all were rehomed very quickly :)
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    Possible myco

    I'm in the UK. I can't find any reference to a requirement to cull, only to keeping a closed flock if the disease is confirmed or suspected.
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    Possible myco

    Thank you both. Both aracaunas look better already, with being on the tylan. They weren't drastically ill before but the larger one in particular was obviously not right. I've enquired with a poultry lab and just had an answer back about testing, so I'll get that done asap. I know it means...
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    Possible myco

    I find myself more than a little concerned! My two araucanas have been a bit off for a couple of days. A bit head-shaky and sniffly. So the other night, I had a look at them after dark and both had a lot of bubbles in their eyes. This is not the first time I've had to treat respiratory...
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    Jersey giant gender?

    How early can you tell what gender a JG chick is? I've got one 3.5 week old, but no others to compare it to except a vorwerk (which is definitely a boy, but I'm told they tend to show early). Best pics I can get as it's with a hen and rather skittish!
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    Two week old boys

    Yes? The faverolles on the left definitely is, he has black wings and I've no doubt the blue marans is, although he's hiding his face here. Biggest comb of the lot and in charge already. The welsummers I wasn't sure about but it looked likely that they were all boys at a day old. I posted...
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    Welsummer chicks

    Better pic of one I think could be a girl. Two I can't see any eye line on at all (the second pair) but there are hints on the first two.
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    Welsummer chicks

    These lovelies hatched this morning. I thought I had all boys when I collected them (had them incubated by someone else after a broody changed her mind) but now they're fully dry I'm thinking possibly two of each. I've not had them before though. Sorry for fuzziness, my camera is broken...
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    Thoughts on breed please?

    I've seen this from a breeder less than 2 hours away - 'citron' (lemon millefleur) Dutch bantams and their description says they mainly breed feeding ones. Could they be these? I'm not at all familiar with dinky chickens so I'm clueless. But these have clean legs which is why they caught my eye.
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    Thoughts on breed please?

    I picked these little one up a couple of weeks ago as someone was downsizing their flock. They described them as millefleurs but nothing else. They are teeny with rose combs, and lay cream eggs. Any thoughts?
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    Random rumpless gene?

    Thanks for that Deb, interesting stuff! I find the look a bit odd personally, but she's still gorgeous :) It is also completely typical of my animals that I would manage to get hold of the breed I wanted through complete and utter chance (I went for legbar chicks and spotted her, the lady...
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    Random rumpless gene?

    No, I'm not into breeding. I'll hatch eggs of breeds or crosses that I want for my own flock but that's it. Anyone any thoughts on my girlie?
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    Random rumpless gene?

    I'll add that she'll not be bred from, in case that bothers any breed enthusiasts! No roosters here.
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    Random rumpless gene?

    I have a barnevelder who appears to be rumpless! Just been having a quick read about and I see that this can be accidental or possibly a random mutation. As I can't find any reference to rumpless barnevelders anywhere I'm guessing that's likely to be the case here? I didn't see her parents...
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    Olive eggers and green eggers

    Right, ok. So with the parent combination as is, it could be a lottery - technically possible but with some offspring laying olive and some not, depending on which genes they get?
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    Olive eggers and green eggers

    Interesting stuff, this. I have 8 three week old chicks; four olive and four pale green eggers. Yesterday I was chatting to a friend of the breeder, who has some older olive egger chicks from the same parents, and one of her hens has just laid a normal coloured egg. Reading around, there is...
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    Feather sexing chicks

    I mean by development, rather than length of primaries and coverts. Girls developing their feathers and sprouting tail feathers first. Sorry, wing sexing wasn't the right description. Or is that only for particular breeds?
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    Feather sexing chicks

    Ah ok, I thought I was still in time for that! Never mind. Wing sexing though I'm still ok for, yes? If I'm reading that link right, then my yellows (the CLB roo X buff sussex hen) can be wing sexed but the blacks can't be. Which makes it even more interesting, because all of the yellows are...
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    Feather sexing chicks

    I've been trying to find that out, but getting different answers for the parent breeds, hence the post. I'll have a read through, thanks.
  20. nikirushka

    Feather sexing chicks

    I'm getting conflicting answers from people and google, so I'm posting for clarification. I have a clutch of 8 chicks with a hen. 5 days old. I'm not going to do anything with any boys until they can be reliably sexed by comb/wattles at 6-8 weeks old, but I'm still looking and curious to see...
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