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    "mystery exotic" from McMurray Hatchery

    Thank you for your responses. I received a reply from my email to McMurray and they confirmed he is indeed a Blue Andalusian. I'm really curious to see how he turns out.
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    "mystery exotic" from McMurray Hatchery

    Hello all. I received this guy as the free mystery exotic with my order of Pearl White Leghorns. It's a mystery all right. Any takers? He's just as flighty as the Leghorns and hasn't made the first noise. We also got a Barred Rock rooster with our Red Stars and he's a big beautiful boy. So...
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    Eye getting much worse, I'm scared we're losing her!

    Thanks for the concern! First off, "she" turned out to be a "HE"! Secondly, he did pull through and became healthy again in just a few weeks with me doing nothing to him at all. I could not imagine that there was nothing I could do for him but that's what the fine folks here at BYC assured me...
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    Broody Buff?

    Thanks so much for the advice! From everything I've read I was thinking she wasn't hard core about it either, but didn't want it to get to that point. We don't have any plans to hatch any eggs, so I was hoping I might be able to break her of it. I figured that us being gone for several days...
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    Broody Buff?

    I'm still pretty new to chickens but my family adores our 2 Buff Orpingtons and 1 RIR mutt, and we love the 2-3 eggs per day. We were gone for 3 days last week and when I got home Saturday night, one of the Buffs was laying on the stash of eggs. I've been searching the forums and believe she...
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    gender identification

    As much as I would love to hatch eggs, we just don't have the location for that kind of venture right now. Hopefully someday we will, and I don't seem to have any trouble locating roosters so maybe one day we will. This experience has taught me enough to know what NOT to do when trying to...
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    gender identification

    You folks are really fantastic, I'm so thankful I found this forum! One more question, any idea what breed these birds are? I was told Rhode Island Red and Buff Orpington, but at this point with my luck, I wouldn't be surprised to find out they are crows.
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    gender identification

    Quote: I read this out loud to my wife, then clicked back to the pictures and as if on cue at the exact same time, we both groaned "Ohhhhhh." This is really turning out to be comical. To try to defend myself about the obviously huge comb and wattles (especially on #1), they weren't so large...
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    gender identification

    Quote: No, I got them from different people each time. I've definitely learned from all this to be more discerning about who I buy from.
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    gender identification

    NOOOO! Even #2?! How can you tell what they are?
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    gender identification

    We were hoping for hens but haven't had such great luck so far. We bought six 2 week olds and ended up with 5 roosters. I sold them and in early December bought 2 more who I was told were definitely hens and the people thought they were either laying or were close to laying....and then one...
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    Eye getting much worse, I'm scared we're losing her!

    So there's no medication I need to be giving her? Are the other 2 RIRs likely to get it? Is there any reason to be nervous for the sake of my 3 young children (ages 5-4-1)? Thanks so much for the reply, I very much appreciate it.
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    Eye getting much worse, I'm scared we're losing her!

    I posted a few days ago about this hen who had some kind of bugs on her and had scratched her face. I used Sevin5 and got rid of the bugs, but can't get a handle on her infection. I felt like we were making progress, but then over the last 24 hours it has gotten much worse. This is an ORP...
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    Scabs and funkiness on face - pics

    After being gone for a week over Christmas, we came home to our beloved Charla Kay (kids named her after my sister, a badge of honor) looking like this! She had a couple of tiny spots before, but it seems to have grown very quickly into this nasty looking stuff. When I was getting these...
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    4month RIR Gender (pics)

    lol, that's hilarious. We were pretty sure that was the case, but are new to chickens. Our neighbor has a RIR hen that is a little older and laying eggs, and her comb and wattles are grown out so I got confused and figured I should hold on to these guys a little longer to make sure. Then when...
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    4month RIR Gender (pics)

    I'm pretty sure about these guys, but I wanted the professional opinion before I made any permanent arrangements... #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 We got them at 2 weeks old and were hoping for some eggs someday....but thankfully we aren't banking on that for our survival right now!
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    RIR feeding questions

    Hello all, thanks for such a wonderful forum! My family is raising 6 wonderful Rhode Island Reds who are now about 3 months old. They are very happy outside in their new house. My question about feeding is how long should I be giving them medicated starter crumbles? When should I switch to...
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