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How can you tell hen vrs roo with Polish? From what I've read, Roos have spikier head floofs. Any other defining features to look for?

^^^ sorry for the duplicate photos. Not sure what happened there! Lol

I took in a bunch of chicks. Ranging from 8 weeks to 11 weeks. No clue what I'm dealing with here. Haha. Help?? Roo or hens ?

Woohoo!!!! How exciting!!!!!! Thanks for the help :) :) I'll post pics as she grows. The breeder says she doesn't have any frizzles, so it's a mystery chicken. Lol! Gotta love shipped eggs.

Little yellow belly passed :( she was doing amazing and then a few days ago she got very weak and wobbly and died within a few hours. Poor thing.

Hi :) So I ordered some ameraucana eggs (suppose to be pure bred). And today I noticed one of my now 12 day old chicks has curly wing and tail feathers. Literally the cutest chick ever. She looks exactly the same as all the other ameraucana chicks, except for the curly feathers. Is she a...

Thanks for the help :) greatly appreciated!

Gahh! I had 8 chicks shrink wrapped and then a few sticky chicks hatched. I had made the conclusion that my humidity was low, but now I'm super confused. This is the very first batch that I've ever had issues with. I almost had 100% hatch success in past hatches. I thought I had my incubator...

The chick with the deformed leg was dispatched by the vet. She said that she was confident that it's deformity wasn't fixable. It felt as if it's joints had fused together :( I read that low humidity causes sticky chicks? Is that wrong information? Now I have a new problem. Some chicks have...

I've been giving poly vi sol vitamins? I didn't ask her but I read on a thread here that it helps. A few drops a few times a Day? Is that right? I'm worried about her sucking it into her lungs so I use a Qtip and I rub it on its beak... I don't know if it's going to work though. Any suggestions...

The eggs were shipped (across country, so long tough trip). Out of 56 eggs, 18 hatched. 3 are very weak and floppy, 1 passed already, 1 with deformed legs, and this little one with the funky tummy. Many of the chicks tried zipping But some got stuck by this super sticky fluid that seemed to...

It's quite dry and doesn't drag on the ground or anything. She/he in the incubator with one other chick with a severely deformed leg :( Hoping she/he makes it!

Not sure what's wrong with my chick (born yesterday). I've uploaded a photo of Its belly. Its otherwise very active and strong. Any ideas?

Super new to this page and I'm not sure how to navigate it. But I'm desperate, so hopefully someone will see this and help identify what's going on. I had about 3 dozen shipped eggs incubating, 13 hatched yesterday. Most pipped and got cemented in by goopy stuff and I had to help. One chick...

I ordered hatching eggs (wyandottes). They travelled quite a ways and when I inspected them most seem to have damaged air cells (no cracks). I've been researching and I've found a lot of conflicting articles. Wondering what to do. They've been sitting in their shipping cartons upright (air cell...

The rest look pretty normal. Just this one is a little odd. Have you seen anything like this before?

Yesterday was day 5 in incubating white Leghorn eggs. I decided to candle them (mostly because I couldn't wait to see how many were fertilized! Lol). But one of the eggs is quite different than the others. The blood vessels are only covering maybe 3/4th's of the egg inside and there's a dark...

Thank you for the info! :)

I totally get preserving breeds and breeding strong beautiful birds. I was just worried I had done something wrong by crossing my own birds to keep as layers. Haha :)

Yeah, we just enjoy our chickens so much but they are getting old now so I thought why not just hatch out some mixed breeds considering we enjoy the parents so much. It's pretty exciting to see what they may look like as they mature. All the Austrawhites have random little black specks Tbh, I...