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Squatting is submissiveness to a roo...I dunno why she's doing it when you don't have one. My girls will squat for Zeus inviting him to mount. Maybe yours is doing it purely as instinct...she's laying eggs so her body is ready for breeding. Some of mine are really hard to tell apart from my...

Do you have a roo? I'm wondering if that has anything to do with it. I have a roo, Zeus, Barred Rock, and he started mounting the females a few weeks before they began to lay. Maybe that triggers early egg laying? Cuz Sansa started laying at 16 weeks old, the rest within a month. I dunno. I hope...

Wow what a strange egg! None of my soft ones looked like that...just soft smooshed shell with the yolk smooshed with the soft shell. Odd! My girls are doing great. I am keeping a log of the eggs I get. Sansa, the first one of my chicks to lay (and one of the CB's) has laid every single day...

They are doing well! All but one of mine are laying...I get 7 eggs every other day, the off days I get 5-6. Every once in a while I get a soft egg...but it's rare now. I switched mine over from chick start to layer/breeder a few weeks ago. I also offer them oyster shell free choice. I wouldn't...

Well, she WAS the only one of my CB's since July 23rd. Four days later one of my 2 Barred Rocks laid. Then a week ago the other BR laid. Sansa, the first CB to lay, has given me an egg every single day. Boring Girl, the first BR, gives about 6 a week. Athena, the other BR, lays sporadically...an...

Ok, she is definitely not a roo! I got my first egg ever this morning...and it didn't come from one of my 2 older BR pullets (21 weeks tomorrow), but from the "possible roo" in question! My CB's will be 17 weeks old tomorrow, and the one with the big comb and wattles laid her first egg!!!

Yep that would be the one. Doesn't act like a roo, but none of the others have combs and wattles that big. SIGH. Only time will tell.

My CB's are 16 weeks old. Although they are friendly and sweet, the two that had the brown around their eyes kinda creep me out. I don't like the way they look at all. I'm also worried that one of the 6 may be a roo...it's comb and wattles are big, unlike the other 5.

They were sold to me as Barred Rock straight run. Got them home and realized two of them with the brown around their eyes didn't look like a typical barred rock. So after calls to the Southern States I got them from and the hatchery that supplied them, that's when I knew what the two with the...

I think all mine are cb's. Now that their adult feathers are bolder, i can see the ones i didn't think were cb's have brown tint and green tint to them. SIGH.

I'll have to take pictures today or tomorrow so I can update on mine...but here they are a week ago (6 weeks 3 days old)...

Good for your neighbors! I'm glad to see you have so much support when it comes to those stray dogs! I used pine shavings at first...but they got it so poopy that I had to change it a lot...and I don't like to waste money, and that's what I was doing. So I switched to sand. Cheap, easy to...

Yea, he said to give him a call when I'm ready for the guineas and he'd mail them to me. Trying my best to get hubby on board with the guineas...he wants to get some because we have a HUGE tick problem here already, but he says we can't really afford them right now (didn't realize how much $ we...

Hahaha look at her! What a funny position she's in!! And your new chick is adorable! I am sorry you had to get the new baby because your dog got your other ones. How did your dog kill them? Were they chicks? I'm asking because I have a chocolate lab, and she trembles at the sight of the...

Awww, yours still have their head spots! Mine don't :(. Now I can't tell them apart! Well, at least not by looking at them. Their personalities are completely opposite. The one my mom has claimed is VERY skittish and runs away. The other one doesn't run hardly at all when you go to pick her/him...

I hope you got pullets!! I'm hoping as well, but I have my doubts...especially after the first batch of BR's I got and 4 of the 6 turned out to be cockerels. I'll keep updating this thread with my two chick's progress, I hope you'll do the same! They told me about the red feathers as well. I...

One is really shy and doesn't like to be touched AT ALL. The other one runs right to me, usually hoping I'll have something yummy for it. Thank goodness the one that isn't people friendly has been claimed by my mom...cockerel or pullet, she made me swear I would keep it (she knows all but one of...

The hatchery mine came from is Mt. Healthy. I went ahead and called the store you got yours from (I'm a VERY curious person...I know, curiosity killed the cat ) and turns out your chicks came from the same hatchery! I spoke to the owner of Blue Ridge Feed and Seed (his name is Rick) and he told...

Do you know what hatchery your CB's came from? I have two CB's that I thought were Barred Rocks. They look just like yours. I ended up calling the hatchery where the feed store got them from because I didn't know what they were. I was told they were commercial blacks. After a few back and...