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My buff Cochin is supposed to be a pullet. 9 weeks old.

Hello everyone. It’s been awhile since I was online. These past few months have been Interesting at my place. The coronavirus isolation was easy for me since I have PTSD and prefer to stay home with my girls. I picked up several new customers for eggs. Then one of my girls died suddenly. Olive...

I was sold a pair of chickens that were listed as 6 week old blue splash Phoenix. I heard the cockerel crow this morning and took a closer look at the birds. The cockerel has saddle feathers. I think they are not 6 weeks. More like 14 weeks. And the size is too small for a Phoenix. I suspect...

Correction. The Brahmas are 10 months old

These birds are very small if they are that old. They are the size of a dove. My Brahmas are 6 months old for comparison

That makes sense. The cockerel crowed for the first time this morning

I have a pair of Phoenix that I recently bought for my daughter. I was told they are blue splash Phoenix pullet and cockerel and are 6 weeks old. Can you tell if they are as listed?

My Polish chicken laid her first egg today! (Finally). It’s pink! The white egg is from the store (for comparison) I also had to chase a hawk away from my flock this afternoon. It came to perch on my Tombstone rose and the chickens didn’t see it till I chased it off.

TSC had the chicks.

I have my first egg!! Petunia (EE/PR) sang loud and clear and I went to check the nests. She laid it in the coop under the nests. Now if the 2 polish pullets would start laying. They are 10 days older than Petunia.

My Dark Brahma pullets love to sit in the garden soil. They take turns.

The double yolker? Only one chick developed in the double yolk egg and it was a quitter at 2 week of incubating.

Well I have finished my experiment of hatching fresh and refrigerated fresh eggs. My sister gave me a carton of 12 eggs that were washed and refrigerated (collected over the prior 3 days) and 5 eggs she collected that same morning. I was curious about the stories of hatching refrigerated eggs...

Well today the first hatchling came last night at 11:30pm. 19th day for this batch and from a green egg. So the hen is an EE. The chick has feathered feet so the Roo is my sisters cuckoo maran!

I put 16 eggs in lockdown yesterday and today I have 2 eggs that have pipped! It’s only day 19. The incubator temp was 99-100 degrees during the incubating for the first 17 days. I hope the chicks will be developed. The lines on the egg are to locate veins