They are black and getting in the sunshineI can see they are gettingdark blue wing tips. They look exactly like our adult Maran did at 5 weeks. One has feathered legs the other doesn't.
She has laied an egg a day for the past three days and they are getting darker every day! I couldn't find a Wellsummer chick anywhere close by so we have two cuckoo Maran chicks about 4 weeks old,..it appears that they are the same gender....hopefully hens.
follow up on my 9/12 post about Lela the reluctant Wellsummer...she finally started laying at 10 months old in the first week of February 1213. She lays specked chocolate brown eggs every second day and each is more bigger and more beautiful that the one before. ..
We are down to four hens...
I don't want to hijack the thread but starting a new one seemed to much so here goes...we have five hens all born around April 1st. the Buff orps and RIRs all started laying between Aug 10th and 14th (sometimes two eggs a day!)
One hen doesn't seem to be laying at all. We had a Moran and were...