Recent content by slantrhymes

Thank you! He's the first chick we ever hatched ourselves, so we wanted to preserve his bloodline in our flock. He is so beautiful, and so good at protecting his flock.

Two of our last hatch of the year are cockerels. We live in city limits, so we need to rehome them. These guys are handled daily, so they are friendly. (The black one is a little more fidgety, though!) They turned 13 weeks old today, Friday 11/9. They are pretty small still. I imagine they'll...

That makes sense! I'd be scared, too. I'll try to give them a quiet space and some treats to ease the transition a little. Thank you for the insight, all!:wee

Hi! My chickens are doing weird things, and I can't find any answers on the web. Hopefully one of you has some insight! My fiancé and I have a BCM hen, about a year old, who was broody on Monday. We moved from northern CA to Washington state on Tuesday, and I assumed that would break her...

Hi! I have a question for the genetics gurus here. I have two hatchery chickens: a Blue Andalusian rooster and a mille fleur Barbu d'Uccle hen. We hatched their eggs this year, and, based on the chicken calculator, we expected to get blue and black solid-colored chicks. We did get two black...

Haha, I did include the breed in my original post... second paragraph. ;)

Definitely bantam cochin. From a pen of nothing but bantam cochins, in just about every color.

I have a pretty (but messily-patterned) 14wk bantam cochin cockerel that I'm trying to use to help myself understand phenotypes in chickens. I'm totally new to chicken genetics and do not yet have a breeding flock, but I really want to try to understand chicken color (and the expression of genes...

True. I can't know, unfortunately, but in the future I think I'll move any broodies to the maternity ward.

I've had the misfortune of seeing flattened chicks before, so I checked the bedding in and around thoroughly. The flock is secured and also protected with electric fencing, so the chances of something having gotten in are slim (we, nor the neighbors who had it for ten years before us, haven't...

I had 3 eggs under a broody hen set to hatch today. Checked this evening: one external pip, one peeping, and one empty shell with no chick to be found. After an exhaustive search, I fear that another hen (I let her sit in the nestbox in the coop with the other hens) probably ate it. Is this...

X-posting from another sexing thread, hoping for an opinion or two: Chick 1 - 9-wk-old BCW polish. No experience with this breed, so s/he's throwing me for a loop! At 4wk, she already had some pretty red little wattles and cere area, but the feed store guy insisted that her (at the time) round...

Three 3-week-old D'Uccles at left. You can already see the difference between the cockerel in the back and his two sisters in front.

Aww, he has such big feet and shanks! How old is he? Given the scruffiness of his feathering, he can't be too old. But uneven feathering is also a cockerel trait, iirc. His comb is fairly pale, but if it's just coming in, it may redden pretty quickly. Keep an eye on him.

I am not very confident about sexing Ameraucanas in general... But those do look very much like the starts of sickle feathers in the tail. Pretty bird!