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    4 week old d’Uccles sexes

    I have 3 Mille Fleur that I hatched from my own birds, and three porcelain from somebody else’s lines. I’m afraid if I wound up with four boys and two girls at best it’s maybe three and three. What do you guys think?
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    Fighting in the broody coop. Help!

    I have 3 mama hens to chicks aged 1.5-2.5 weeks old. I thought everything had been going great- each mom had one baby, except one had 2- but I noticed if I ever need to handle a chick (it’s caught, it has a wound, etc.) it winds all the moms up and they start lashing out at any and everybody. I...
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    Marek’s Vaccine

    I have had some staggered hatches over the last couple weeks, and everybody will be hatched out by the end of this weekend. Unfortunately, that makes my oldest chicks about two weeks old. I cannot afford to swing multiple bottles of the Merrick’s vaccine, and since it has to be used immediately...
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    Exposed Brain in d’Anvers chick

    I had some eggs shipped to me last month and hatching them has been a tremendous failure. Out of 24 shipped, 21 arrived intact, 9 made it to lockdown, and today (day 22) only 5 of those are still viable. This is one of those 5, and it appears my bad luck streak continues. Is this some sort of...
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    Opened egg I thought was a goner! Help

    I have had so many broody hens this season, and they’ve all played musical nests with each other. I’ve been keeping an eye on one in particular, and I believed the one egg that started developing was due to hatch this Monday. After observing no external pips, candling to check for movement, and...
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    Looking for Belgian d’Anvers

    I’m having a hard time finding the club directory of Belgian d’Anver breeders. Specifically I am looking for mottled. Anyone have any pointers? Looking for eggs specifically!
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    4 week old Langshans & Silkies

    Hello! I hatched some eggs for a class project we were doing and kept back my favorites. I have 2 Langshans and 2 Silkies. A blue and black, and a chocolate and mauve, respectively. The blue langshans is very obviously male; any thoughts on the others?
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    Silkie Head Twitch

    I have a 3 week old silkie chick who developed this issue over the last week/week and a half or so. It reminds me of wry neck, but I’ve read of similar occurrences in silkies on this site before. I’ve given it 3 days of vitamin E and poultry cell, and while it’s not falling over anymore, I’m...
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    Nestbox Fighting

    We got chickens three years ago, and I have seen squabbles over just about everything. Today I went out to check eggs, and I saw one of my chickens covered in blood. Naturally, I assumed something had tried to kill her, but there was no blood or feathers in the area. THEN I saw one of the nest...
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    Dropped eggs- no cracks but worried

    Looking for some reassurance, although I’m not sure I can really expect to find it… I have some shipped eggs that have been in my Brinsea 28EX Ovation for a couple days, and I went tonight to turn on the turner. Usually at lockdown on previous hatches I take the turning arm out. When I went to...
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    Chocolate Orpington- cockerel or pullet?

    I picked this baby up from Meyer Hatchery on June 3rd, supposedly vent sexed female. She is six weeks old, but starting to doubt the “she” part. I know it could be too early to call, but does anyone have experience with this breed and if I should keep my hopes up?
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    Meyer Hatchery Bantam ID?

    I picked up this bantam baby from Meyer’s bin today. She reminds me of a D’Uccle (single comb, cheeks, feathered legs) but the chipmunk pattern is throwing me. Is that sometimes a pattern that they have as chicks? They had several that had the more classic “orange head and brown/grey body” in...
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    Bumblefoot epidemic

    I am writing you at the end of a very frustrating evening. I happened to notice my white leg horn looks like her foot was a bit swollen. I picked her up and looked at her, and it looked like pretty classic bumble foot. I soaked her, made an incision, pulled out the plug, flushed it with Betadine...
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    Wart on beak?

    Hello! I have seen other birds posted with this exact issue before but haven’t seen any kind of follow up from the OP’s. Any idea what this growth is on my splash Marans beak? It doesn’t bother her… it’s very hard but has a “plug” on it like a scab. I want to say a little abscess? But before I...
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    Baby chick with foot injury- help!

    My first time incubating chicks was this weekend, and when I went to move them to the brooder, I noticed one of them had a pretty severe injury to one of its toes. I think the claw is lost, but I don’t know the extent that the toe itself is hurt. I disinfected and wiped the blood away that I...
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    Medicated feed question

    I was discussing with somebody in a different chicken group about an issue I was having with one of my chickens that I believe to be due to molting… long story short, I have seven adult hens, who will be two in April. They were fed medicated chick starter until they were of laying age, and they...
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    Picked on pullet with bloody and swollen ear lobes

    Hello all, I will try to give you all of the information. I have a flock of 30, with 10 of them being in the seven month or so age group. I noticed a couple days ago that one of them was mounting and pecking another, and I removed her yesterday. This morning when I woke up to feed everybody, I...
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    Speckled sussex- pullet or roo?

    This is a speckled sussex we got from Meyer hatchery 10 weeks ago. I’ve had no indication she was a boy (we ordered a pullet) but those feathers look a little pointy in the close up pics. Her comb and wattles are the same size as her sisters though. Thoughts?
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    Four week old EE- could this still be a lady?

    We got this Easter Egger from Meyer hatchery four weeks ago, supposedly vent sexed female. We had another Easter Egger hatched 4/17, but it was indeed a rooster. It started growing at five weeks. This EE is not so macho- no bullying, no crowing, no squaring up, terrified of me- but it reminds me...
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    Swedish flower baby

    Is it possible to determine sex of this chick? She or he is 3 1/2 weeks old. I thought she was a pullet, she looks like the rest of my chicks with a bit more pink. She was vent sexed female although I know mistakes are made.
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