Here are the NJs getting ready for bed, and wondering what the 'flashy flashy' was. Lancelot is the male and Guinevere is the female. Lancelot goes back to cjwaldon because I cannot have him where I live, and Guin will stay with us. They are 7 weeks old.
Our 2 week old just flew out of the 3-foot high brooder. Time for a lid of some sort (again)...really didn't think they'd get out of this one.
Oh, the many aspects of being a chicken noob.
Actually - nevermind. It took a while longer for mine to fluff out. It is grey from the bottom to the neck and then the head is creamy yellowish. It has a touch of yellow on the booty too...but not much. Kind of hard to sex a chick when it doesn't look like the brown/red ones. lol It seems...
This chick looks the spitting image of the one I just hatched out. Is this really a Roo? I thought females had the large yellowy-cream area on their head? I'll be so very sad if it's a Roo... I love it already and it worked so hard. It took the poor thing 30 hours total, to hatch after the...