Recent content by Knittyikitty99

She and all of our other chickens live inside a barn. We let them out several times a week with supervision, especially since there’s barn cats, dogs, and a pair of red-tailed hawks nearby. We’ve been feeding her and the two other flocks we have besides her’s KENT Home Fresh Extra Egg Layer...

Hi all, I have a 1-year-old salmon Faverolles hen. Today I noticed that her comb seemed to have a more bluish/purplish color than normal. I looked through some photos from a few days ago (more specifically the 12th) and she had a bluish comb then too, I just didn’t notice it. It looks like it...

Hi all, I have a 1-year-old Salmon Faverolles hen. Recently, she started losing a lot of feathers. I know what molting looks like, and I know that hens sometimes molt sooner than 18 months. I’m just asking this because I have never seen this in any of our molting hens before. So about three...

Thanks for all your responses! We suspected that the white one was a roo, but we’ll see about the blue silkie. Also I forgot to mention to please ignore the blue silkie in the far back in the second to last picture, I didn’t mean to get him in there haha! He just kinda photobombed it, we already...

Hi, We need some help sexing two of our silkies and possibly our polish. Two of our silkies have crowed recently, while another sometimes fights with the roosters and another is very sleepy all the time, but doesn’t seem to fight with them. The polish lives in a seperate coop but has their tail...

Hi, we hatched 4 seabrights about a month ago (2 male, 2 female through egg DNA). At about 2 weeks of age, one of the males pecked the other male and a female until their heads were bleeding. We separated them and left the aggressive chick with the other female (he seems to have no problem with...