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This hen, in particular, is a year old - is established in the flock and has been here from the beginning. We've always had one rooster - and she has always been a "favorite." Why, suddenly, has she gone nutty?! We do have a recently matured cockerel (who will be culled soon, just waiting for...

Okay, I'm stumped! Help a girl out? The dark ones have pronounced combs and are bigger - whereas the lighter ones look pullet-y and smaller. I know in this breed it should be the opposite? If it helps a they are 7 weeks old and as day old chicks they were all dark and the same color. Chick 1...

Okay! I have my guesses and have had some help here but it was determined they weren't old enough then. Now they're 10 weeks old and I have to think of rehoming some Roos! I'd hate to give away a pullet by mistake. Aside from EE all have Brahma for father. * "Caramel" -EE "Rex" - Thought...

I picked up 4 day old EEs, sexed - but I know it isn't guaranteed! Here they are - I get so confused about EE sexing! I know you can have an idea by coloring and combs - but i have zero experience with this (not) breed and I'd love some help! **Theyre six weeks old! Apologies for bad photos...

Okay! I've come to accept that I just have bad luck - last round it was 5/6 Roos and now In faaaairly sure I've got 4/5! It's all good. Help me determine? Father is Brahma/Wyandotte cross. Mamas could be - RI red, SLW, Speckled Sussex, Australorps. First up is who I am fairly certain is the...

Hello! All of my gals should be brown egg layers. I've got Speckled Sussex, RI Reds and a handful of mixes (australorps). Anyway! I've been getting a nice variety of very light to pinkish brown eggs - but I'm curious about the occasional ones that are speckled! When I wash them, the speckles...

Hello! I have a 1st time broody who, this weekend, started hatching her eggs. I've got 3 so far (1 hatched 3/20, 2 hatched 3/21 and now another one is pipping (3/22). She is in the coop in a popular nest box - but I have it blocked off at night/early morning while the girls and roo are all...

Good morning! I have a broody Speckled Sussex - "Chippy." She's opted to set her clutch in the favorite nesting box - inside the coop she shares with 8 other hens and our Roo. I tried to move her nest once - to floor level - but she wasn't having it, and I carefully re-positioned her and she's...

I think I am a rooster magnet. Help me decide..! Here I have 4 6-week old chicks. They are mixed breed, parentage could include: Austrolorp (probably primary breed), Brahma, EE, Jersey Giant - the father was a black Austrolorp. I figured that would be useful info in trying to determine the...

I have seen many advertisements for egg laying hens, usually around 2 years old. The description usually mentions the advertiser is making room for new chickens -- so I wonder, when do chickens typically stop laying reliably? I want to replace 4 of our flock that turned out to be roos, but...

"Henny Penny" wound up being the only pullet of 6 classroom chicks! Go figure! Their breeds were all quite apparent (or crosses) but this one I'm still curious about. Any ideas about the breeds she might have come from? (Also from that farm were Barred Rock and Dark Brahma crosses and what...

Yesterday, I found that of our small backyard flock of 10 chickens... 5 are roos! We have a Dark Brahma (mixed) and 4 Barred Rock mixes. (One is a rock/easter egger, I'd say!) Today, I have a gentleman coming to pick up the 4 Rocks, as we are keeping our Brahma. We have kids and he seems the...

These chicks hatched memorial day weekend, so they're around 4 months old. I am including individual pictures/info. PLEASE NOTE -- I have not seen aggression or heard any crowing just yet. Pleas let me know if you need other pictures! I'd like to have a good idea what to expect. I'm hoping I...

So another classroom friend decided they were unable to care for the two chicks they adopted - so we said we would take them to add to our small brood. I'm fairly certain this lady called us because she KNEW her two chicks had turned out to be roosters. One most certainly is - the comb is red...

Hi there! My daughter's 1st grade class hatched their own chicks. We happily took 4 of them because we've been wanting to raise chickens for a while now. They hatched Memorial Day weekend so as of right now, they're around 2 weeks old. We recently purchased 4 more chicks, all 3 weeks old...