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    Anyone in WV???

    Putting this here just because it's a bit more specific than the general threads, hope that's okay! I know it's unlikely but would anyone be interested in a gray-blue cockerel who's bound to get up to at least 8-10 pounds or around there? He's almost 4 pounds at 10 weeks, he's just a backyard...
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    This chicken is not dead

    This lil guy's only just started going outside n he's a big fan of the sun. Not dead though, don't worry!
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    Sad after losses

    well, I lost a hen recently to what I'm pretty sure was heart failure. She had the purple comb, she slowed down bad in her last few days and she died in her sleep, about as peaceful as I guess they can. She was about three and she'd struggled with weight her whole life and maybe it finally got...
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    test breeding thoughts for 2025

    well first hatch went kind of dismal since I've had no luck with incubators this year thus far. first attempt the one I was planning to use cooked the eggs because something went wrong with its temp stuff, second time the backup smaller incubator got unplugged at some point (must have had...
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    hen lays three different shades of egg

    gotta love chicken normal, I'll have to pay closer attention to the other eggs, see if they do that also😂
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    hen lays three different shades of egg

    I'm pretty sure! The three hens currently cooped together are Buttons (the one in the picture, suspect to laying all three), Matilda (a large barred hen who has never laid an egg that wasn't at least 65 grams or so and with a specific shape and tint) and Cherry (who also lays very consistent...
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    hen lays three different shades of egg

    I see, I'll give it a read thank you!! That's really interesting too, I haven't noticed environmental factors myself yet but they're in a pretty consistent one right now (it's winter so it's just mud, snow, mud, snow, dismal weather etc). But glad to know it's normal, chickens are such neat...
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    Who's the father?

    thank you! Of the three I definitely suspect the EE the most. I've got a weakness for the pretty roos, and he's a lil sweetheart too so he's probably sticking around til I can find him a home with lotsa hens (Heck, I may not even give him up at that point, might even think him up a name or...
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    hen lays three different shades of egg

    Hello, I recently separated out three hens I wanted to hatch from this spring and I've been collecting their eggs. One hasn't started laying this year yet n the other two lay on and off. So one lays large eggs consistently when she does, one lays eggs of a light cream tone but hers are also...
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    Who's the father?

    So I've got this roo, mom's a buff hatchery [so definitely not breed standard] brahma and dad is one of three boys: a paint rooster [ayam cemani x white leghorn, as far as I know] with a nice big straight comb, a blue rooster of unknown origin who's produced most of the blues in my current flock...
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    Pics of my flock

    Had a possum take one of the bachelors unfortunately. Only had the two and they were housed with the geese, and that shelter should have been safe but I guess it wasn't. It could have been something else, but I don't know what's small enough to have gotten in. Did a major check and didn't find...
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    Rooster very sick, bumblefoot complications

    he sits or stands around mostly, he does hop sometimes and he's surprisingly mobile when he wants to get somewhere. But I would very much prefer we get him a prosthetic (which is the plan, but between weather and personal things that have been happening, it may take longer than we'd hoped). That...
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    Rooster very sick, bumblefoot complications

    That sounds like a good plan! I never considered birds that weren't chickens could get it, but it makes sense. Fingers crossed for her recovery :fl. And let me see, here's some Goose pictures from this morning [he is yelling in one of them].
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    Rooster very sick, bumblefoot complications

    He's doing fine these days, thank you! Sorry for no updates, there haven't been many as of right now. We are just trying to keep warm at the moment, there's been a nasty cold chill and a lot of snow coming through 🥶. But he is a pretty happy house rooster and he'll stay a house rooster till it...
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    Questions about DIY incubator and current incubator

    I don't have a turner either in mine, I don't recall if it's still air or not but I will check it to be sure. I don't know what's wrong with it is the thing and since it killed my last batch of eggs with a nasty temp spike I don't want to use it again till I either figure out what the issue is...
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    Questions about DIY incubator and current incubator

    Hello, I have been doing a lot of reading as spring approaches on DIY incubators, as chick fever is almost definitely here. The thing is that we have a basic incubator but it's a little giant, and as I've read up on incubators in general I've realized that's not a very good incubator. It worked...
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    Dogs more important than Chickens?

    not really, because I don't own a dog. But I know dogs are predators so if that hypothetical happened I'd understand that was my fault and I'd up security for the chickens and get rid of the dog if it was unable to be trained to be safe for chickens.
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    Drake having trouble with his legs

    Thank you, I went and looked at our pill bottles and a couple say B3 and I think that's niacin from a quick search around? I just worry, I don't want to get it wrong somehow. I figure he'll definitely eat the pills if offered, they take treats from me all the time. It might be that what we're...
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    Drake having trouble with his legs

    We were giving him higher niacin based foods but we can try some supplements now. Would human vitamin B pills do anything (I only ask because we have a lot of those on hand) or should we just go straight to buying duck specific supplements?
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    Drake having trouble with his legs

    Hello! A couple years ago we rescued two jumbo pekins off of the river, a duck and a drake. The drake had a leg injury when we caught him and his ankle was swollen but his hips were alright. Neither had good health, obviously, so we spent a while just giving them all the peas they could eat...
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