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Not a breed question, but I didn't find a better board to ask. The hen is I believe a mille fleur/Ameraucana mix. I'm not sure the quality of the parents. What is her individual feather pattern called?

Thanks all. Most of our roosts are plenty wide and I think only one hen uses the one narrow one. I've been meaning to rotate that one anyway.

It certainly seemed odd to me too.

A 4H judge told my daughter last summer that you shouldn't allow chickens to roost until they are 6 months old. Something about the keel bone could grow crooked if they roost too early. I've found nothing that indicates anything about age to allow roost. Is this anything someone can...

As an update, thick chick is back to normal. We didn't use Corid, since the only Corid we found was a huge $100 bottle. We put it back on medicated feed and in a couple of days back to normal and has been back with the other chicks for a few days.

loop video: http://youloop.org/loop.php?v=Rq4XEGpJb60

If you successfully hatch that, your next challenge is to hatch this:

Congrats. Isn't is amazing how exciting a crack in an egg can be?

hear hear hear here

We've only had three hatches, but all three had their first pip while we were asleep. Our second hatch all but one hatched while we were asleep too. I do kinda like the little peep alarms waking me up at 2 AM. :)

Chicks can sense when you are worried and hold off just to tease you. They'll probably wait until night to pip. :)

Thanks!

They never been on the ground outside. They been loose inside the coop a couple of times. The coop is off the ground, shavings on wood floor.

All the chicks are in a bin that hasn't been used with any chicks or chickens before, but is in a coop with other chickens. The chicks are on non-medicated feed now but were started on medicated.

I found one of our almost 3 week old chicks lethargic and with eyes closed yesterday morning. None of the other chicks in the brooder show any signs of trouble. We separated and after a day it has improved. Eyes are open and it is drinking. I don't know whether it is eating. It moves around...

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Thanks, I'll keep watching. I was kind of hoping this might mean one guaranteed hen, We had bad luck on our last hatch of eggs from a friend, 4 of 5 were roos. :(

These two have the same parents. Their tails are pretty distinctively different at this point. Does this indicate sex?

You can open one and see what it looks like.

Same parents? I had chicks with different parent hatch 3-4 days apart.