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    Speckled Sussex roo?

    Thank you! Maybe he’s closer to 3 months. I know he’s a roo but arguing with nursery for refund, their making me wait until January for final decision. I needed some emotional support/reassurance :D
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    Speckled Sussex roo?

    About 4 months old. I think the tail show cockerel
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    Rooster?

    Yes! That's a Serama, they are SO easy to tell very early. I feel like I have a rooster farm. I live in town and I'm not supposed to have roosters. Plus I've got too many chickens anyway and need to downsize. But I love them all so it's hard to choose. That's why I'm focused on discovering the...
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    Rooster?

    Thank you! Now I'm rethinking my others. What about this one? No wattles to speak of and the flat black comb is tricky.
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    Rooster?

    3-4 months old, either a true blue whiting or an olive egger, I couldn't keep the straight. It's been acting like a pullet, but is starting to look pretty like a rooster. Comb is very pale and small wattles, but the tail is dropping down. I'm about to give away my rooster collection plus a few...
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    Kate's Sassy Seramas

    Hi, I have a serama question. I have 9 chicks and chose the breed because of how friendly they were said to be, but my chicks, ~ 6 weeks old, are very stand-offish, and some even act terrified. I have 4 silkie chicks in with them and the silkies are curious and come right up to me and let me...
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    Winter is Coming! Checklists, tips, advice for a newbie

    My chickens are roosting in the rafters. I was ok with that until I read about protecting them from drafts. The coop has several openings for ventilation at the roof line. So they are roosting in the Freshbcold air. It's been dropping to to the mid twenties for the past few nights. We don't get...
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    Showing Chickens

    Thank you for the reassurance & good luck to you in Denver!
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    Showing Chickens

    I have some of the same questions! We are entering some pullets and a cockerel in the state fair, but I'm worried that: A) being caged alone for 4-5 days will affect their personalities and/or simply freak them out B) being removed from the flock for 5 days will affect the way they are treated...
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    Current Movies - Thumbs UP or Thumbs DOWN

    We LOVED Swiss Army Man, my husband and I thought it was hilarious, my 17 yr old son thought it was sad and not so funny. Then I saw it again and it wasn't as funny, but very touching and deep. It seems to be a different movie every time you see based on you current mood. It's definitely not for...
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    Houdan? Not a polish

    Yeah, I thought the coloring was off for a houdan. At first I was disappointed, but she's turned out to be a very nicely tempered pullet. Looks like a pullet, right? My very sweet cuckoo bantman polish pullet suddenly developed a faint v-comb and became very aggressive towards the younger...
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    Houdan? Not a polish

    Thanks!
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    Houdan? Not a polish

    I meant to say it was a batch of polish eggs
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    Houdan? Not a polish

    This pullet was from a batch of eBay eggs, but she has 5 toes and a more narrow head and crest, and bearded. Slate legs. Is she a polish mix or houdan?
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    Frizzled black copper or cuckoo maran cockerel?

    You've been so helpful! Small black comb, no wattles but showing dark pink where they will be.
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    Frizzled black copper or cuckoo maran cockerel?

    Thank you! But he's so big. That's what's throwing me off. I thought Cochins were small and gentle. I have another Cochin, I think!, regular feathers, that is 1/3 his size either from the same hatch or 1 week younger. We call her half chick because the little body is so short. Maybe it's a...
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    Frizzled black copper or cuckoo maran cockerel?

    Hi! I got this guy from a batch of purebred Moran eggs. He's about one month old, looks like my other Maran chicks in the face and same size as the largest one, but obviously has frizzled feathers. The seller says he's hatched thousands of eggs and never saw one like that, and he doesn't seem to...
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    Killer chick?

    hmmm, the coop is probably closer to 3.5'x5' and during the day most of them were in their large run of 40 sq ft. Since at night they all appeared to be snuggled together most of the coop was unoccupied, which is why I initially thought it was suffocation or illness. I thought the large run...
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    Killer chick?

    She is a reliable witness. We've had a string of bad chicken luck lately. My only two egg layers, (also my two fanciest, most expensive chickens) out of 30 chickens, were killed by a raccoon or cat within a few days of each other. And before she was killed one of them went broody which I thought...
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    Killer chick?

    Wahhh, that's so sad. There was barely a 2 week age difference but with the different breeds some of them got big faster than the others too. My first batches of different ages got along so well I assumed it was the norm. I am learning sooo many things the hard way! I didn't mean to have so...
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