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Ordered six Amerucana chicks this year, good quality chicks, so far so good approximately four weeks old. I’ll definitely be ordering live chicks from now on if ordering from there.

I’m ordering live chicks from Breezy Bird this year to see how that goes opposed to self-hatch!

three eggs out of 8 hens.

three eggs out of 8 hens.

I would try and treat for coccidiosis, if no improvement then I would assume Mareks. I would recommend sending the next bird (if any) who passes for a necropsy and PCR for Mareks to confirm if your flock is positive. If your flock is positive there's a lot of information of Mareks positive...

Any guesses on gender of this little one? 2 weeks old in photos

Looking for insight sexing this little one - is approximately 4 months old. No crowing or any typical “roo” behaviours. All photos of the same bird from today. Let me know what you think!!

Thank you! I believe he is my only rooster… fingers crossed. I will be keeping him as long as he stays friendly.

I thought so! Named him Reuben !

Updated photos! 11 weeks

Hello! This baby is 11 weeks old as of today! Barn yard mix from a pen of: amerucana, olive egger, black cooper maran, leg bar roosters & hens. I don’t recall what color egg it hatched from. Does not have the hairy leg gene. Looking for your thoughts on whether it’s a hen or roo!

A sibling from the same hatch !

Thank you so much I will try this!

The reason for Re homing was difficulty integrating new chicks in the flock with her present as she would attack them. She laid beautiful blue eggs when they had her but only 1-2 a week at best- their flock was never high egg producing, which leads me to think that possibly it could be from...

Hi everyone, I have a 1.5yr old Naked Neck that I recently acquired. She integrated really well in our flock, and seems to be happy and comfortable. BUT she keeps laying these “paper shells” with no moisture, or actually egg. This is how it’s laid from her. She always pushes it out every 2-3...