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Hi All, We have started a project to assemble collections of photos to help people trying to sex their chicks. What we are aiming for, for each breed included in this project, is a collection of photos showing chicks of both genders at as wide a variety of ages as possible, up to an age where...

We got a 3 week old Salmon Faverolle from a place where it was being raised in a crowd of chicks of different breeds and ages. We got it to provide some company to two day old chicks (a Buff Orp/Leghorn and a bantam Silkie). The three have all bonded well, but the Faverolle doesn't seem quite...

Maybe this has been done before, but I thought I would try to start a poll about favourite foods (of chickens). If I get enough responses I'll add up the votes for each food type and produce something like a top ten, with numbers of votes for each. My hens have cast two votes: Our first hen, a...

Hi All. We have 10 chickens now, all raised from a young age, but only three were hatched in our incubator. All three came from sets where theirs was the only egg to hatch, and for all three we found companion chicks as quickly as possible, thinking it might not be a good idea to have chicks...

Hello all! I have a question that neither Google nor a rummage through BYC forums has answered to my satisfaction. On the subject of sex-linked crosses, it has often been written that "gold cock X silver hen = golden girls and silver boys", or something along those lines. This statement is often...

Hello everyone! As relatively new chicken owners my OH and I have been regularly dipping into BYC threads over the past few months as guests. Apart from being a tremendous source of useful information on everything chicken, the friendly atmosphere of BYC is one of the most welcoming I've come...