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Hello everyone! Long time no cluck 😅 I picked up a pair of frizzled Auracana back in September on my hunt to add the blue egg gene and had assumed at least one parent would have been smooth, but maybe not because I have this girl(?) who is overly curly with tattered tail and primaries like a...

Does anybody do this? Thinking if I maybe get some easter eggs, fill them with water and seal them, they can work as mini heat sinks to keep temps more even in there when doing smaller batches. I'm trialling some eggs from my juvenile roo(slw) and some oddball bantam hens (silkies & frizzle)...

My favorite girl gave me a bit of a fright last night and I still have no idea what was going on. Went out to the girl's pen to move the roo back in with the boys and my shmoozy turkey girl Cranberry lays down in front of me on the ground submissively and one of my fiestier pullets decides to...

Hey guys, My quail has just come into lay. We're 3 eggs in and I see they are progressively getting bigger with each passing day. Now, we only have two coturnix - they've ended up being a pair, so keen to hatch out more asap before he gets the chance to rub her raw. I can only assume they're...

Hello Everyone, I've had to make a tricky decision over brooding today. Bit of background, we live in a greenhouse and our place gets 'hoooot' - as in over 40c hot midday and I do not trust my incubator to not cook an egg at the moment. - likewise, ambient is a too warm in the coolest places...

Hello Everyone, I've made a comfy bachelor run in my raspberry patch and all is peaceful with my little upstarts. So far, they are still respectful to me and give me my space when I'm coming and going. No in-fighting. I think they got all that out of their system before I split the flock and...

God, I love being rural and not having a strict limit on my flock anymore. I'd been on the hunt for a frizzle to add to my flock for months when I found someone local disestablishing their breeding group of one year olds with a very reasonable price per hen, so I impulse bought our latest...

Hello Everyone, After separating out my 3 definite Jakes out of 5 poults, I'm now a little paranoid one if the Jennys may be a jake as well. Cranberry is nowhere near as manly as their bros, but their head is a bit larger than my definite Jenny and has a more prominent waddle. I've caught...

Hello Everyone! My little turkey poults are growing up fast on me and it is looking like I have a bit of a skewed ratio - 3 jakes and 2 jennys. These are imprinted, which will probably come back to bite me come breeding time, but I had a bit of a question regarding rearing and temperament...

We just had little california quail chick pop into the house. Little guy is completely solo - no sign of mum or siblings. Have settled em into the brooder, though it's soooo tiny! I've had to make some accomodations as the bars are way too spaced to hold em. Fingers crossed he'll flourish. Not...

When I saw this old parrot cage, I knew what needed to happen... Top is dedicated to hatchlings with the 150 w caged ceramic bulb which I'll be putting on thermometers stat and bottom is dedicated to older chicks with a seedling heat mat under all that bedding. As you can see, my 4 wk old...

I've found a breeder who has mixed parentage poults for sale - coming up 3 weeks old. Going to go pick up 5 this weekend as my establishing flock! Been looking forward to getting some turkey for our new block and these are just squeaking in before move day on Monday. More birds to move 🤣, am...

We have 10 days left in Auckland and easy access to certain breeders and stock, so... I made an impulse buy, of sorts, from our local exotic bird shop. With my last hatch, I realised the limitations of my tiny broody who can only sit 7 and shipping eggs usually being sold by the dozen. So, I...

Hey guys, My last chick hatch was smaller than I expected and I'm thinking they're not going to make it through their bag of Chick's Choice medicated starter. Boosting the protein, would this be suitable for raising turkey Poults? I'm seriously thinking about getting some eggs soon and would...

So my 6 little chicks, 2 days shy of 4 weeks have been outside all day for the last 3 days as we've been starting integration. Our 3 big girls have been very interested, to say the least and spend all day circling their isolation pen. Well, went to collect them in this evening only to find two...

Hey guys, I'm making the move to increase my flock size and have a feeder question - now, I currently have a 12kg feed-o-matic, which is working really well for my flock of currently 3 hens - even did okay when there were 4, but only 2 chickens can feasibly feed from it at a time, even the 20kg...

Hey Guys! We're getting out of the city next month to move into our new forever home - a 3.18HA block of hilly pasture and native bush. What does this mean? More room for chickens! We'd previously been on the city cap of 6 hens and no roosters, but I am now very happy that I can keep all 3...

Hey guys, I'm finally getting out of the city and have 3 little upstarts in my brooder that should be around 7 weeks old come move day. Will be keeping them all for their genetics and need to set up a rooster-only pen as otherwise I only have 6 hens at the moment (3 pullets from their hatch...

Hey guys, One of my Orpington chicks has a slipped wing. The primaries are overlapping the secondaries at rest on one of her wings. I've tried manually resetting it when I can, but they're so rambunctious at this age that it typically doesn't stay that way for long. I'm thinking it's a...

Hey guys, I'm new to Campines and have 4 golden in the brooder. Half have a darker, more mottled down pattern and the other half are more golden with less diversity in their mottling I'm assuming these aren't sexlink qualities cause I'm pretty convinced I have a boy and girl of each according...