Recent content by gabreal16

here is the hen, she is a barred rock as you can tell she is really young and clearly not laying yet.

ya in the part of tennessee i live in everyone calls baby chicks diddles. but any way it just amazed how young the hen that took over was i mean she will fluff out at night and let them go under just like the older one did. she even clucks and protects them from the older aggressive hens. i will...

i had my hen with her diddles in a different pen than the rest of the flock, and i decided to let them out to free range with the flock and something i have never heard of happened. a pullet, that is less than a year old, came up to the older hen, flogged her and started clucking. so now the...

my newest flock of chicks are now 7 weeks and 4 days old. I was wanting know if they would have developed some characteristics that could tell me if it is a rooster or a hen? If so what should i look for. When should i expect the roosters to actually crow.

any body?

i have to full stock bared rocks. they are almost 5 weeks old and i was wondering if any gender specific characteristics would show at this age. They both have stubby tail feathers and the barred feathering on the body instead of just the wing. The only differences between them are one has a...

i was asking cause im scared the one with the tail feathers is either the only hen or an early bloomer. i just wanted to confirm it.

is there a way i could encourage the roosters to crow?

i recently hatched 6 chicks which are all 3 weeks and 2 days old. 3 of them are white leghorn/barred rock mix, one austrolurp/bared rock mix and two full blooded barred rock. one of the leghorn crosses has a full tail while the others hasn't even started to come in. i hope she isn't the only...

sorry I meant white leg horns.

sorry forgot to mention the hens are 9 barred rocks and 2 wet leghorns. they are both about a year and half old.

I have 11 hens old enough to lay with rooster in my coop. I get any were 7-10 eggs a day. is this number what I should have expected? or do you think my hens should be laying more? if so how can I tell the hens that are laying with the ones that are not.

so will room temp be too hot or what , also how do I know when to turn the eggs every 3 hours or what. Are you talking about turning between pointy end down and fat side down if not how do I turn them.

when I went to gather the eggs a few minutes ago I noticed a hen with her body flattened a wings spread out and underneath her was a wooden egg. I don't know if she is committed yet so I am going to wait three days to be sure. During that time how am I suppose to collect and store eggs I get...

it is a pullet that has not started laying yet.