Posts by ChickenMama09

We just use plain straw, nothing fancy.

Our birds are just 20 weeks old and on Friday we got our first egg and yesterday we got our second egg. We have 3 light brahmas, 8 black astralorps and 7 buff orpingtons. No clue which one it was but we're very excited and can't wait for...

I looked in our local phone book. But for us the nearest processor was 2 hours away (in one direction) and you had to get the birds there at 6AM, which means leaving the house at 4AM, kinda crazy. So hubs made a killing cone out of a...

Definitely a roo. He looks just like my roos.

Mine are right now 11 weeks, that pic I posted is from when she was about 8-9 weeks old. Mine seem to have more black than yours. I got mine from McMurray. I wish I would have ordered more than just 3 of them. They are the sweetest...

He doesn't look like my light brahmas do. Here's a pic of one of my females. I would say yours is a cockerel, because of the redness above the beak. Mine have no red at all. This is gimpy sitting on my husband's leg. (She doesn't really...

I would say that the BO is a cockerel. My pullets don't have combs that big for sure but my cockerels do.

I would agree, the ones with the larger combs appear to be roos.

We put our buff orps outside in their coop when they were about 7 weeks old, but it was much colder here then so we had kept them inside the garage longer. But we kept the heat lamp on for ours for an additional week in their new coop...

I would agree not a faverolle, my male salmon faverolle is black with brown and some white.