My buffs are family. They get along with our cats our neighbors cats and the chickens next door. My dh loves them. They learned my truck the first day they saw me drive away and ran out to me when...
These are my first chickens, gifts from a daughter for Christmas. Once they started laying, it's rare to have a day without one egg from each hen. They come when I call them, stay close to the...
I have six Japanese Bantams. Five hens and one rooster. Grace, Zoey, Lemon, DeLacey, and DeLaney are the hens, and George Tucker is my rooster. They make up about 1/5 of my chickens. I have all...
I just LOVE my sicilian buttercup, Poppy. Anytime I go outside she loves to hop up onto my back or my arm. She's very curious and loves to he held or played with. I've also noticed that she loves...
I am new to raising chickens. I got 3 serama babies who were hatched on 2/07. One has grown a noticeable bigger comb than the other two. Can anyone tell which is boy and which one is a girl. Thanks,.
I became interested in hatching and raising chickens during a genetics class where we manipulated the genetic code of chicken embryos. One year later, I have many chickens, mostly Ameraucanas and Easter Eggers. I believe in order to truly respect and appreciate chickens, you must hatch them on your own. I still attend college and live with my parents, who graciously accepted my chicken habit on...
I became interested in hatching and raising chickens during a genetics class where we manipulated the genetic code of chicken embryos. One year later, I have many chickens, mostly Ameraucanas and Easter Eggers. I believe in order to truly respect and appreciate chickens, you must hatch them on your own. I still attend college and live with my parents, who graciously accepted my chicken habit on...
Yeah. I know it is too young to tell. But given the noticeable difference among them, especially the brown one with bigger pink comb, I hope someone can cast an early prediction. I hope they can turn out to be one roo and two girls. Thanks, anyway.
Please do not pick up your chicks by their heads. Very cruel and you could injure them. Has never proven to be anything other than an old wives tale. As you see from this article, not only does it not work, but people cant even make up their minds which way would determine a boy or a girl. Some say legs hanging is a girl, some say legs hanging is a boy. At any rate, its nothing anyone should be doing.
I once went to a chicken convention years ago and they had lots of baby chicks on display. I happened to meet the President of the group and asked that very question "how can to tell the boy chicks from the girl chicks" I remember his reply to this day. He said "It is very easy you get a plait of worms and set it down among the chicks and invariably the boy chicks will eat the girl worms and the girl chicks will eat the boy worms". I SCRATCHED MY HEAD AND SAID WELL HOW DO YOU TELL THE BOY WORMS FROM THE GIRL WORMS? HE SAID "HELL IF I KNOW I'M A CHICKEN SPECIALIST NOT A WORM SPECIALIST!