Recent content by allieb8228

I got them from a local feed store so a mix is definitely possible. I believe it is just the lighting on the second pic because she doesn't have any silver coming in. If the suspect roo is a mix, could that explain the faster growing comb and mean that maybe .... "he" is a "she"? (Wishful...

Bump for help! Also wondering why the first chick has so much more white feathering than the others?? The two I think are pullets are both mostly dark like the second chick above...

I just asked him for guidance in how to move forward with a request to increase Littleton's hen limit to 8. He responded very quickly and invited me to meet him in person in a few weeks. I plan to get all of my information together and present it then. Fingers crossed!

At 4 weeks comb is much bigger than the others..... Is this a boy? Here's another one that I'm thinking is a pullet:

Fo Found the Litteton Independent article and sent an email to our district councilman. Look like it was Peggy Cole who raised the issue last year. I'll try to contact her as well.

We are in Littleton and also would like to increase the # to 8 hens! How recently was the request denied? Let me know what I can do - we have several neighbors who I know would support this initiative... I've just recently started looking into this issue so if you give me a starting point I...

By the way those pics are about a week old, much more comb in the suspect chick now. I'll post more pics ASAP

Well they're now three weeks old (I know still too early to tell but that won't keep me from guessing!). Of the three, I originally thought only one was a pullet due to its more pronounced feather growth. Now, the "she" has the most pronounced comb of the bunch so my current hunch is that "she"...

Rouen and Cayuga at about 1 week!

We're in Littleton and are new chicken parents. We don't have an HOA so I can't comment on that, but there are plenty of areas where that shouldn't be a problem. What parts of Littleton are you looking in?

One application of neosporin cleared it up with all the birds. I still have two Cochins in the quarantine bin just to be safe but the two Australorps are back in general population with no further issues... Knock on wood! What about yours? Did Terramycin work?

So we have two week old Australorp pullets and one of them is quite a bit larger than the others. I'm wondering if this pullet is actually a rooster, if we have a different breed or if we just have a large Marge on our hands. What do you think?? First pic is the unknown chick, second pic...

We bought Vetericyn Opthalmic Gel and applied it to the three that couldn't open their eyes. (I found one more in our little flock with the same problem). The fact that we have three with the same symptoms is alarming to me. The gel had an immediate effect; their eyes flung open and they all...

Were your chicks eating and drinking before they died or acting sick? I called the farm store and they said to put a lubricant in their eyes and not worry about it if they're acting otherwise normal. Curious if yours were acting normal too.

Hi, we have 8 one-week old chicks. Everybody has seemed healthy this week but today I noticed that two of them had pasted eyes. I didn't see any discharge and they were otherwise acting as normally as one could without sight (I watched them both eating and drinking). I used a warm compress...