Recent content by smsully1

Hello!! We also bought the horizontal nipples however, when water is left in the drip tray it freezes! Any recommendations on how to keep that from happening? Also, how did you switch your chickens to the nipples?

How did you set up the drain in this garden? And do you have to worry about the weight from the soil and water on the run?

Just an update; after an "expert" opinion from the hatchery saying this was definitely a pullet we heard crows this morning. DEFINITELY a cockerel. 14-weeks old.

Thanks again, StarMeKitten - I email Hoover's Hatchery because this is where my birds came from and she is certain this bird is a pullet...? I am just going to wait this out and see if in another 7 weeks or so, if "Bruce" lays an egg or starts to crow.

OH GOOD!!

IF you go back a few pages; you can see my roo at 4-weeks old. It was definitely not a rose comb. I hate to say it but Stripey does look like a roo (per the single comb)

They came from Hoover Hatchery, I actually have two hens and one roo. My roo (pictures above) has a distinct single comb. The comb on Dotty is arose combs and look just like my hen. I can't see the comb on Stripey.

My two hens look just like this at that age; their lacing came in later that I thought (now 10 weeks).

9-weeks old Silver Laced Wyandotte; unsure of the sex. I've been told a pullet with a non-standard comb. I don't see any difference in feathers compared to my other two.

I am having the same "issue" with one of my SLW that is 9 weeks old now, looks just like your first photo - we currently call her Bruce. I have asked the farm and they have told me it is too soon to tell. I have also been told that I might have a non-standard comb pullet. I would not assume they...

I am having the same "issue" with one of my SLW that is 9 weeks old now, looks just like your first photo - we currently call her Bruce. I have asked the farm and they have told me it is too soon to tell. I have also been told that I might have a non-standard comb pullet. I would not assume they...

Really? I wonder if that's what I have instead of a SLW...

I am keeping my fingers crossed it is NOT a Roo; we aren't allowed to have Roo's in Minneapolis.

4 weeks old.