So far, mine are a pastel blue and a light olive green. Diesn't show as much in the pictures as in person. The brown ones are from my black copper marans. Mine just started laying about 1 week ago, and it seemed like the wait took forever, but they are doing pretty good.
That sucks, I bought 15 pullets from them- one drowned early on in the water feeder and one turned out to be a rooster. Which I could tell early on and since I'd lost a rooster wasn't such a bad thing. I'd be beyond mad if someone came on my property and helped themselves to my chickens...
What does His/Her tail look like, it's hard to see completely from the picture. I'm no expert, but the comb looks like my cockerel (that was supposed to be a pullet) but I'd have to see the tail. My pullets tails fan out, and the cockerel has a longer taller non fanning tail than the girls. I...
I have older ones, and ones I raised from chicks that are now almost 7 weeks. The older ones are around 27 weeks or so (I think) and they are mellow, pretty birds but not incredible friendly to me; because they don't let me get very close. They hide and run when I enter their area. But I can...
We bought a house a year ago that had a chicken coop already built in to the back fenced area. I'd always wanted chickens for fresh eggs daily, but never thought I'd love chickens so much. Since moving in and getting them, I've added to my flock and built onto the coop that was already on my...
I Live in Arizona which is extremely dry and hot too. Aside from some of the other things mentioned, I keep a little kiddie/wading pool in their run they can play in to cool off. I'll add ice if it starts getting pretty warm.