heres an update on my four chicks now all approaching 8 weeks over the next few days. What do we think now....still looking like pullets or do we have a roo or two in there?
I have a main flock of 9 hens and two Cockerels that live in a converted stable with access to a covered safe enclosure and then daily access to an acre field. All chickens in here are above 18 weeks old. I have 6 growers who are in a seperate coop and run in my garden However I want them to...
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I thought for a bit of fun (I know it's far too early to be certain of anything) that I would see what everyone thinks of the sexes of my current four chicks , they are all four weeks old.
one is a cream legbar (Brie) so was sold it as a pullet (is this always correct?)
I have a little...
Hello, I have a lavender Araucana who is approaching 3 weeks old, she suffered with pasty butt when she was a few days old but we seemed to get her over that, now however she just seems to be wet constantly. She's pooping normally and is eating and drinking normally. Her heater is high enough...
I can't decide whether it looks worse because it's actually more swollen or whether it looks worse because she's lost her down and the raw naked rear end just looks worse. She's completely normal, eating and drinking, cleaning herself. Playing with the other chicks and jumping up onto the top of...
That's a really good point. I'll certainly put them out in a run as it's so warm at the moment. She seems to be pooping ok, it just never falls to the floor. It just falls onto her larger rear end and sticks there. Then gets baked on under the heater plate it seems. It's the right temperature...
Hello, Im new here but have been reading posts and following forums for some months now and have found everyones advice so helpful! I had chickens growing up and at the beginning of the year after moving house decided to start a new flock, my husband bought me a lovely little coop and run for an...
Hello! I'm new here and reasonably new to the chick world of hatching babies! A week ago I had a poor hatch in my incubator and only 1 out of 6 Lavender Araucanas hatched, one died during hatch and one died after incubator lockdown. the other three died at an earlier stage. The little one that...