Recent content by Hillsider

So sorry. On my phone I only saw the "🙄🤚It's a cockerel" under your name LOL. Note to self, don't use mobile to view forums.

Which? There are 3 🙂

Hello BYC experts! I’m hoping you can help me. This is my first foray into Orpingtons and I am in love. I hatched 15 eggs from 2 Blues and ended up with a great mix of colours (blue, black, lav and splash). I have one lav that is 100% a rooster and has very obvious feathering but I’m having a...

My 8 year old daughter just read this thread and is currently doing a happy dance! She had a solo bantam roo hatch a few months ago and we've had the worst luck finding him some girlfriends. Thanks everyone! :celebrate

Out of curiosity, which do you think is the Cochin and which are the mix? We don't care either way but would be good to know!

Hello fine folks of BYC. Wondering what your thoughts are on gender of these 13 week old bantam Cochins and Silkie (at least that’s what they were sold as :)). Thanks in advance for your expert advice!

Ah! No, I bought them unsexed (chicks were hard to come by this year!). Was just hoping one was a hen.

Duped?

Hello again folks. Recently added 2 Black Copper Maran chicks to our flock as company for a GLW mix cockerel (I don’t really want to mix him in with my silkies). Hoping one is a hen... They are almost 8 weeks old. I’m thinking #1 is a roo based on the copper coming in on the neck but not...

Thanks all!

Hello chicken experts! Looking for some insight on the breed of this 10 week old rooster. Got a (not so great) batch of 18 hatching eggs from a flock of GLW hens that included a GLW rooster and an Icelandic rooster. Sadly he was the only hatch so I can’t compare him to any others. Do you think...

An update. The chicken is quite healthy looking aside from the vent area. We've been soaking and cleaning it every day and I was able to get a hold of some Vetericyn to apply (surprisingly difficult in Canada). She laid a soft shelled egg yesterday and seems to be pooping. The skin around the...

Thank you for your insight! I guess I thought vent gleet because of the white discharge from the first chicken. This one does look like pecking though - blood but no discharge. I cleaned her up as best I could by myself (she's quite feisty). We feed them a good quality layer pellet and...

Thanks for the reply! I don’t see any crop or respiratory issues. I’ve been watching for those as I read that could be the cause of the funny eggs. The blood seems to be more related to the other chickens pecking. No blood in stool that I see. It was watery this morning though. I isolated...

Hi everyone!Hoping you can lend your expertise here. I bought 6 ISA browns (ready to lay) in June. By July, I was getting 2 misshapen, watery eggs pretty regularly and instinct tells me it was the same 2 birds laying these. 4 were always perfect. Recently, 1 of the chickens laying the oddballs...