I have no trouble telling my brown Quail apart but my last hatch turned out to be one third white, I have only 4 hens and one male in the brown but a lot of the eggs turned out to have white chicks, most of these have black dots on the top of there heads and some have black on the tips of there...
I have 8 red cross hens in one of my runs, I noticed one of my hens making a noise like she was trying to crow, and today she was doing the roster thing on one of the other hens, I know she is a hen because she lays eggs and looks like a hen except she is a littie larger than the others, has...
Last year I bought 6 guineas, I let them out 2 at a time when they were big enough, within days 3 dissappeard, the other 3 stayed around my house, in the woods behind the house or at the neighbors on either side of me and they liked them and did not complain, well after a yeay of running loose...
I have a coop and run with 8 red cross and 4 black sex link and I get 10 to 11 eggs a day from them, I have a light on a timer in this coop, I have anorher coop with 8 red sex links in it, no light and I get 7 or 8 eggss from them a day, the shorter daylight and cold does not nseem to bother them
I have 3 guineas that are about 6 months old and I keep finding eggs from them like about one a week, some are not formed but a few are, they are just laying in the yard when I find them were they have been feeding
I have 6 8 week old Guineas in a coop, I turned 2 out today and all they do is hang close to the wire near the 4 that remain inside, How long before I can release the other 4 and expect them all to hang around