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Here is a slightly better pick of the silver laced wyandottes together

Thanks I think I have two silver laced cockerels. There combs are a lot more pink then the others. Which stinks I have been wanting this breed for awhile!

I think I may have a couple Roos. Please help! As I won't be able to keep them! They are between 8 and 9 weeks old. Got them mid August. [/IMG][/IMG][/IMG][/IMG]

Thank you! I have turned the light off for now. And will keep checking on them! Makes me so nervous! Don't want to lose any!

I'm still some what new to raising chickens. I have six 4 week old chicks currently in the house. They still have their heating lamp but with it being a hot night it's about 75 degrees in my house right now. I turned the lamp off a few hours ago and they all layed under neath it together and...

My chicks about 6 or 7 weeks was going in for the night and my daughter shut the coop door to soon and smashed the chickens leg. I'm pretty sure it's a really bad break. Idk whether to cull it or if this is fixable with meds and a wrap

it feels like it has taken forever to complete! But I'm excited its done and now I have an excuse to buy more chicks!

He could be. I bought them at a feed store and they were marked as RIR. But I also bought some Easter eggs that were marked as americuana. And didn't realize the difference until I came to this site! A little frustrating! But thanks. Also he is already getting some what mean. He is the only...

5 week old RIR supposed to be a hen but looks like a roo and I swear he tried to crow today

Thanks I will try this! I'm a bad chicken mom and actually havnt offered them any treats yet. I offered them yogurt a few days ago and they wouldn't touch it. I will have to start this tonight with the treats

I think I'm going to let my chicks free range for an hour or so tomorrow when the weather warms up. I will of course be back there with them the whole time but I am nervous that one of them is going to hide and I can't find her or they are going to be to fast and run from me while I try to put...

So I know it's hard to tell when they are so young. This is my first time with chicks and I'm pretty sure I have a rooster he is about 3 and a half to 4 weeks old