Hi all - new member (and newbie chicken owner :)) from Wheeling here!
We have a flock of four (2 Buff Orpingtons & 2 Golden Laced Wyandottes) and they're about 8 weeks old. All four were supposed to be hens, but we're pretty sure that one of the Wyandottes is a rooster.
Since we're not allowed...
That's really cool! The industrial stuff always amazes me. My setup at home is OpenHab, Z-Wave, crossed fingers, and duct tape :)
And yeah, they are really pretty birds!
Thank you! It's nice to know as newbies that our intuition is heading in the right direction.
That's really unfortunate though, because our city doesn't allow roosters :/
Thank you all for the warm welcome - you all are so kind! I've been check out the learning center and there's so much info there! I know I'll be consulting it all the time :)
I neglected to mention where I'm from in my post. I'm in West Virginia - hi to any fellow Mountaineers out there!
Hi all!
We've recently got into backyard chickens and picked up 4 chicks for our flock - 2 Buff Orpingtons and 2 Golden Laced Wyandottes.
We got them as chicks and they were all sexed as female, but we're starting to think that one of our Wyandottes is a rooster.
Our chicks are about 8 weeks...
Hello everyone - new chicken parent here! I'm looking forward to the conversations and learning more from you all :)
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Completely new! We started looking into them after seeing chicks at a local store. After a ton of research, we...
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