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Hi all Since the old thread stopped I thought I'd start a new one for everyone working on this project around the world- hence the multiple names in the tittle. Please introduce your chickens and show us all where you're up to. I'm only just starting with a recently purchased quad. Looking to...

A week ago I noticed my 2 week old silkie chick (3 weeks now) had a squishy large crop. I assumed it was sour crop (though no smell) so I have been treating with thrush medication but it doesn't seem to be getting better. Crop is squishy feeling, though there appears to be some air in there- is...

So I purchased 12 eggs recently (in Australia so height of summer here) and only 3 went anywhere. 1 blood ring, so two made it to lockdown but neither hatched (on eggtopsy hadn't absorbed yolk or internally pipped at all). After noting that I only had 2 viable chicks on day 10 candeling I got...

Hello, My aunt and uncle have hatched out 8 chicks, based off eggs they should have 3 pure Barnevalders (blue or gold laced) for themselves and 5 Welsummer x RIR chicks for other family members; however they all look fairly similar. Can someone help with which 3 chicks are most likely to be...

I brought two female miniature goats (one pygmy and one newby) as babies planning to breed them. However, life has gotten busy and they have just had their third birthday. Is it too late for them to be maidens? What is the oldest you would safely breed a goat for the first time?

Hello, I'm in Australia and after an incubator for a beginner for occasional backyard use, 12-24 egg capacity, auto turning. Would love a Brinsea but my budget doesn't stretch to that as I don't plan on incubating all that often. Saw this on ebay, has anyone tried anything similar and was it...

Hi, just excited to share some pics my husband took of our chickens and wondering if anyone has any ideas about final colour. Silkies are two weeks old, others are three now. Silkies all came from a mixed pen so are probably just mixed colours. I brought 12 hatching pekin eggs shipped and...

Does anyone know off hand the showable/accepted colours for Pekin bantams in Australia?

When I google pics of splash pekins (waiting for eggs to hatch), I see some birds with red based colouring. Obviously this is not traditional splash but i was interested in how they look and what genes are involved. It seems there are two options, either blue red x blue red giving some splash...

Hi, Can anyone point me in the direction of a good colour genetics website? I'm particularly interested in relation to Pekin/Cochins and Australian would be a bonus. I think i'm starting to get the black/blue/splash and cuckoo/barred genes, but I get confused as to what is a silver or gold...

Hello, I haven't had chickens since I was a child, but now we're on acerage I have ordered a dozen Pekin Bantam (Cochin for US) eggs of mixed colours so I can't wait to see what I end up with. Would love to know more about colour genetics as chickens seem a lot more complicated than the horses...