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I'm not sure how you'd describe her patterns... I think for just a little mixed up bird she's pretty though. This is a pic of her from this morning:

Penrod looks like he was a beautiful rooster! I'm so sorry you lost him, it must have been terrible. I think in a way I was lucky how mine went. When I got up in the morning to check on him, he was still sitting like he had been - it looked like he just put his head down and was gone.

Well I think what is going to make the big difference is when was the last "time" before he passed away. He didn't have a long decline - looked perfectly fine until a day before passed, but I wasn't really paying attention to coop "action".... According to this thread folks seem to say...

So if I'm lucky enough for a chicken from my beloved pets I wonder what this little "mutt" bird will look like?

So good news at what I think is the very edge of when it would be safe to do it... I found another egg and added it to the incubator! Doubled my odds I hope!

Well it's been exactly two weeks since my sweet rooster passed away and I couldn't believe my eyes this morning... finally an egg! I know I'm a very long way away from a grown chicken (she's an old bird and it may not even be fertilized) but I'll never get there without the first step...

My icon pic is of my rooster, think he was just a black sex link - he just had a great personality really....

Thanks for the ideas! Unfortunately the eggs I have in the fridge are at least two weeks old so I do t think there's any hope for them in the incubator... :-( She doesn't act sad really and is still hunting bugs and eating the same. I think part of it is that he was so good about going to...

I can see how that would happen - the old bird is going to be much more interesting than some young hen! lol

I had heard that, if she can/will lay any eggs, that they would be fertilized for a long time still. I had not thought about the issue of a young rooster causing trouble for my older hens - I guess because they still act so young. I am also thinking about starting a second coop area with a new...

So a little over a week ago my rooster that I loved very much passed away. He was one of four chickens that I originally bought as pullets around 4 years ago that were all supposed to be hens but he wasn't. Now I only have two hens left as one of my other hens passed last summer. Up until my...

Here's one (I have a high resolution of this too) of my four angels:

Quote: That's okay, I know not all chickens are nice! I'm just lucky that, at least for now, everyone gets along. The cat part is under the chicken videos section (lol!). Here's a link I hope works: http://trishm.smugmug.com/Chickens/Chicken-Videos/13186482_ff9vf#1041893728_pYcrx-L-LB

Very glad to hear it looks minor, I'm so new to this I can't tell what is or isn't. The hens don't pick at him. He is the boss but not mean. He loves to feed them (get food and then cluck until they come and take it). They actually all get along well together. This is him trying to help out...

Okay, I'm going to add one more picture here and see if I have this right... I think the majority here are saying that the black marks on the edges of his comb are frostbite and the larger black marks (closer to his eyes) are dried blood (from an injury, pest, etc.). I've marked what I'm...

No, just the one roo and three hens. He is definitely the only boss in their house!

Has anyone ever seen frostbite in this location on a bird before? I'm curious because the little bit that I've seen on it makes it sound like its usually the tips of their combs that are affected. Anyone have any thoughts? BTW - I don't know if this helps but I only have 4 birds and they've...