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Bleh. And that is why today I stayed inside.

Congrats! Glad it hasn't started snowing here yet.

Sh... just don't let the mama hens hear that

Fair enough. My 'established' flock (no roosters and no babies) which I kept for the longest amount of time contained only 7 chickens so I do know what you mean about getting to know all of them much better. My flock of 30 only lasted a few weeks whilst my silkie was raising her chicks before we...

Heh. I lived in suburban Sydney and managed to keep 30 chickens under the hood at one point. I just wish I could pull of the same stunt here in Canberra

I'm thinking Frizzle x Silkie and Buff Orpington x Silkie respectively. But I could be well off the mark.

Hellooo! Ah, they generally are a sign of the quails being male. Which I can't keep thanks to the noise regulations in the area.

Poor Tiger sounds like he's in for a rough time

At this point I'm telling them to grow faster! So I can get a closer look at those feathers dangit! And I totally agree, a few days ago I swear they were the size of kiwi fruits. Now they're average-sized potatoes.

Yup, they are Jap quails. At the moment they're only 2.5 weeks so I have a while go to. Fingers crossed.

Congrats!! Still going to be a while before I get any quail eggs. I also took a closer look at one of my quails last night and noticed some - uh oh - rusty looking feathers. Here's to hoping it was just a trick of the light. They're only 2 weeks old, I still have hope!

I seem to have been the opposite, over the past ~30 or so chickens I've ever bought as week-olds or younger, only 2 ever turned out to be roosters. Had a few close calls with hens looking like roosters, but they all sorted themselves out with age.

Haha you must get that on video sometime!

He's brave. One look at my Light Sussex sent my silkie roos running...

X2, lovely range of colours as well. How exciting!

My Australorps all had black eyes. My Barter Black (Australorp x RIR) had red eyes though. Perhaps she's some kind of cross? link: a video of a Barter Black for reference

Congrats!

Or perhaps it's her lesson to everyone that she's still the top hen... Even after being MIA for a few weeks brooding.

That's fair enough, all of my family are back in NSW. I'm the only one to have left the nest, so to speak.

Ah, I used to live in suburban Sydney where one of my neighbours a few blocks down kept a whole flock with at least 2 or 3 roosters. I never figured out how they managed to get away with it, a ranger visited me about my roosters and I had to rehome them unfortunately. Where I am at the moment...